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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 8:21:5

سَمِعْنَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
8:21
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:8:21:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
samiʿ'nā
Lemma
سَمِعَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. سَمِعْstem · V · س م ع
  2. نَاsuffix · PRON

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 8:21 — 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 be not like those who say, “We hear,” when they do not hear
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Be not as those who say, we hear, and they hear not
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And be not like those who say "We hear," when they hear not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
and be not like those who say, 'We hear,' and yet they hear not
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 16 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form سَمِعْنَا appears 16 times in the corpus.

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Root س م ع · 185 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س م ع occurs 185 times across 65 distinct forms.

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