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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 9:57:3

مَلْجَـًٔا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
مَلْجَـًٔا Quranic text
Simple
مَلْجًَٔا
Without tashkeel
ملجـا
Normalised (searchable)
ملجا

Position

Computed
Surah
9 · The Repentance
Verse
9:57
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:9:57:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
a refuge
Transliteration
malja-an
Root
ل ج أl-j-e
Lemma
مَلْجَإ
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. مَلْجَـًٔاstem · N · ل ج أ

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 9:57 — 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 →

Were they to find a shelter, or a cave, or a hideout, they would go to it, rushing
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Had they but found a refuge, or caverns, or a place to enter, they surely had resorted thither swift as runaways
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
If they find a place of refuge, or caves, or a hiding place, they assuredly turn towards it and haste thereto
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Could they but have found a refuge, or some caves, or a place in which to creep, they would have turned round in haste thereto
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 ل ج أ · 3 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ل ج أ occurs 3 times across 3 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ل ج أ →

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