Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the twentieth verse of chapter 19 (sūrat maryam). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (19) sūrat maryam (Mary)

Sahih International: She said, "How can I have a boy while no man has touched me and I have not been unchaste?"

Pickthall: She said: How can I have a son when no mortal hath touched me, neither have I been unchaste?

Yusuf Ali: She said: "How shall I have a son, seeing that no man has touched me, and I am not unchaste?"

Shakir: She said: When shall I have a boy and no mortal has yet touched me, nor have I been unchaste?

Muhammad Sarwar: She said, "How can I have a son when no mortal has touched me nor am I an unchaste woman".

Mohsin Khan: She said: "How can I have a son, when no man has touched me, nor am I unchaste?"

Arberry: She said, 'How shall I have a son whom no mortal has touched, neither have I been unchaste?'

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See Also

• Verse (19:20) Morphology - description of each Arabic word