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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 8:9:8

بِأَلْفٍ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
بِأَلْفٍ Quranic text
Simple
بِأَلْفٍ
Without tashkeel
بألف
Normalised (searchable)
بالف

Position

Computed
Verse
8:9
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:8:9:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
bi-alfin
Lemma
أَلْف
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GENstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. بِprefix · P
  2. أَلْفٍstem · N · أ ل ف

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 8:9 — 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 →

When you appealed to your Lord for help, He answered you, “I am reinforcing you with one thousand angels in succession.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
When ye sought help of your Lord and He answered you (saying): I will help you with a thousand of the angels, rank on rank
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
When ye sought succour of your Lord, and he answered you, "I will verily aid you with a thousand angels, rank on rank
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
When ye asked for succour from your Lord, and He answered you, 'I will assist you with a thousand angels, with others in reserve
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 أ ل ف · 22 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root أ ل ف occurs 22 times across 18 distinct forms.

See the full root page for أ ل ف

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Community

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