Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 8:35:7

مُكَآءً

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): مُكَآءً Quranic text
Simple: مُكَآءً
Without tashkeel: مكاء
Normalised (searchable): مكاء

Position

Computed

Surah: 8 · The Spoils of War
Verse: 8:35
Word in verse: 7
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:8:35:7

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: whistling
Transliteration: mukāan

Root: م ك وm-k-w
Lemma: مُكاء
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: Mderivation: VNverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

مُكَآءًstem · N · م ك و

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Spoils of War 8:35Quranic text

وَمَا كَانَ صَلَاتُهُمْ عِندَ ٱلْبَيْتِ إِلَّا مُكَآءً وَتَصْدِيَةً فَذُوقُوا۟ٱلْعَذَابَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْفُرُونَ

← إِلَّا 8:35:6 وَتَصْدِيَةً 8:35:8 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 8:35 — 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 →

Their prayer at the House was nothing but whistling and clapping—so taste the punishment for your blasphemy

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

And their worship at the (holy) House is naught but whistling and hand-clapping. Therefore (it is said unto them): Taste of the doom because ye disbelieve

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And their prayer at the house of God is no other than whistling through the fingers and clapping of the hands - "Taste then the torment, for that ye have been unbelievers

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

Their prayer at the House was naught but whistling and clapping hands!- taste then the torment for that ye misbelieved

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 م ك و · 1 occurrence

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root م ك و occurs 1 time across 1 distinct form.

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