Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 48th verse of chapter 27 (sūrat l-naml). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (27) sūrat l-naml (The Ants)

Sahih International: And there were in the city nine family heads causing corruption in the land and not amending [its affairs].

Pickthall: And there were in the city nine persons who made mischief in the land and reformed not.

Yusuf Ali: There were in the city nine men of a family, who made mischief in the land, and would not reform.

Shakir: And there were in the city nine persons who made mischief in the land and did not act aright.

Muhammad Sarwar: There were nine tribes in the city spreading evil without any reform in the land.

Mohsin Khan: And there were in the city nine men (from the sons of their chiefs), who made mischief in the land, and would not reform.

Arberry: Now in the city there were nine persons who did corruption in the land, and put not things right;

Verse 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53

See Also

• Verse (27:48) Morphology - description of each Arabic word