Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the fourteenth verse of chapter 55 (sūrat l-raḥmān). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (55) sūrat l-raḥmān (The Most Gracious)

Sahih International: He created man from clay like [that of] pottery.

Pickthall: He created man of clay like the potter's,

Yusuf Ali: He created man from sounding clay like unto pottery,

Shakir: He created man from dry clay like earthen vessels,

Muhammad Sarwar: He created the human being from clay like that used for pottery

Mohsin Khan: He created man (Adam) from sounding clay like the clay of pottery.

Arberry: He created man of a clay like the potter's,

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See Also

• Verse (55:14) Morphology - description of each Arabic word