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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 78:20:4

سَرَابًا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
سَرَابًا Quranic text
Simple
سَرَابًا
Without tashkeel
سرابا
Normalised (searchable)
سرابا

Position

Computed
Surah
78 · The Announcement
Verse
78:20
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:78:20:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
a mirage.
Transliteration
sarāban
Root
س ر بs-r-b
Lemma
سَراب
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. سَرَابًاstem · N · س ر ب

Morphology is an external annotation from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus, licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. It is not Quranic text and never alters the token.

In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 78:20 — the whole verse this word appears in — not this word alone. The correspondence is verse-level: no word-level alignment of translations exists for these editions, so we do not claim which English word renders this Arabic word. Compare the editions →

And the mountains are set in motion, and become a mirage
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And the mountains shall be set in motion, and melt into thin vapour
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
and the mountains shall be moved, and shall be like a mirage
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root س ر ب · 4 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س ر ب occurs 4 times across 4 distinct forms.

See the full root page for س ر ب →

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