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Quran word by word
Pick a surah and up to 20 ayahs. Each Arabic word has its English meaning under it. Tap a word to see its pieces, its root and its base form, named in the Quranic Arabic Corpus's terms.
About this page
What are the sources?
Three, and nothing else:
- The Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com), version 0.4: a word-by-word grammatical analysis of the whole Quran, made by the Language Research Group at the University of Leeds (Kais Dukes, 2009 to 2017) and now maintained by the Quran.com team, under the GNU General Public License. It gives each word's pieces, tags, root and base form. The tag names and terms on this page are quoted from its documentation. We use the copy at github.com/mustafa0x/quran-morphology, which adds four tags (ADDR, DIST, ATT, NV) named only in its README.
- QUL, the Quranic Universal Library by Tarteel (qul.tarteel.ai): the Indo-Pak Arabic text (script 59) and the English under each word (word-by-word translation, resource 92).
- Ibn Hishām, Mughnī al-Labīb ʿan Kutub al-Aʿārīb, edited by Māzin al-Mubārak and Muḥammad ʿAlī Ḥamd Allāh (Dār al-Fikr, Damascus, 6th edition, 1985). Digital text from al-Maktaba al-Shāmila (book 6972) via OpenITI (github.com/OpenITI/0775AH). Quoted in Arabic, not translated.
What happens when I tap a word?
A small canvas opens with the word in the middle. Tap the word and it splits into its pieces: the prefix side on the right, the word in the middle, the suffix side on the left. Tap again and the pieces join back.
What is on each side of the canvas?
The right side holds the pieces joined on in front and the left side the pieces joined on behind, each named with the Quranic Arabic Corpus's own tag or feature term. The middle holds the word itself: QUL's English for the whole word, the Quranic Arabic Corpus's terms for it, its base form (lemma) and its root letters.
What is a root?
The root is the Quranic Arabic Corpus's: its letters as the Quranic Arabic Corpus gives them. Tap the middle word to see the letters of the word that match the root highlighted, and the other base forms the Quranic Arabic Corpus lists under the same root. The other letters are not named.
Where does the data come from?
The Arabic is the Indo-Pak script as in the Huroof workbooks. The English meanings are the word-by-word translation from the Quranic Universal Library (QUL) by Tarteel. Piece names, terms, roots and base forms are quoted from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com): tag names from its tagset page and feature terms from its morphological features page (corpus.quran.com/documentation). Four tags in the copy of the Quranic Arabic Corpus we use are not on the website, so there only the copy's own README sentence is shown.
Does the page add its own explanations?
No. Every statement on the page is QUL's English, the Quranic Arabic Corpus's wording, Ibn Hishām's own Arabic (quoted, not translated), or a count, position or colour computed from them. Each panel shows a Source line saying which.
Where does the Ibn Hishām text come from?
Where a particle has an entry in Ibn Hishām's Mughnī al-Labīb, the word panel quotes its paragraphs in Arabic, word for word, from the edition edited by Māzin al-Mubārak and Muḥammad ʿAlī Ḥamd Allāh (Dār al-Fikr, Damascus, 6th printing, 1985), in the OpenITI digital text. They are not translated or summarised. The citation under each passage gives the book, author, edition and pages.
It can still get things wrong
The Quranic Arabic Corpus's pieces, roots and base forms were matched to the Indo-Pak word boxes by script, with AI assistance, then checked by script and by eye. Some words may be split wrongly. If something looks wrong, please tell us.