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Quran word meaning test
Pick a surah and up to 20 ayahs. Choose, match or type the English meaning under each Arabic word, or go through them as flashcards.
About the test
What happens when I tap a word?
Tap any Arabic word to see what it is made of. The panel shows the word in colour, one piece at a time: a front piece such as bi, the, a joined word, an ending. Each piece is named with the Quranic Arabic Corpus's own tag. The whole word's meaning is not shown, so the test stays fair. Tap the word again, press Escape or tap elsewhere to close it.
Which ways can I answer?
Choose: tap one of four meanings under each word. The wrong options come from the same surah, and you get a second try. Match: each ayah's meanings are shuffled below it; tap one, then the word it belongs to. Type: write each meaning yourself, the hardest way. Flashcards: say the meaning to yourself, show it, then mark how you did. Each way keeps its own answers.
How is my answer marked?
In Choose, green is right first time, orange is right on the second try, and red is two misses. In Match, a meaning is either in the right place (green) or not (red). In Flashcards, you mark yourself. When you type, the marking works like this:
Green means your answer has the same words as the key. Case, punctuation, words in brackets and small words like the, a and of are ignored, and a one-letter typo in a longer word is allowed.
Orange means your answer shares a word with the key but is not the same, so it is not fully right. Check the key and decide for yourself.
Red means your answer has nothing in common with the key, or the box was left empty.
Where do the answers come from?
The Arabic is the Indo-Pak script, word for word as in the Huroof workbooks. The key is the English word-by-word translation from the Quranic Universal Library (QUL) by Tarteel. Where the Indo-Pak text writes one word as two, the meaning was split to match, and each change is logged. The pieces shown when you tap a word are named with the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the copy at github.com/mustafa0x/quran-morphology.
It can still get things wrong
The data was matched to the words and the marking rules were written with AI assistance, then checked by script and by eye. A good answer in different words can still be marked orange or red. If a meaning or a mark looks wrong, please tell us.
Are my answers saved?
Yes, in this browser only, as you type. Nothing is sent to a server and there is no account.