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The Hamziyya: the opening

الهمزية

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Clause 10 of 11 · Chosen through the generations

نَسَبٌ تَحْسَبُ الْعُلَا بِحُلَاهُ قَلَّدَتْهَا نُجُومَهَا الْجَوْزَاءُ

A lineage whose ornaments make you think Gemini has hung its stars as a necklace on high rank itself.

Nasabun taḥsabu l-ʿulā bi-ḥulāhu / qalladat-hā nujūmahā l-jawzāʾu

Latin reading

Words

Roots and lemmas:Automatic analysis

Roots and lemmas from CAMeL Tools and, for Qurʾān lines, the Quranic Arabic Corpus, with corrections checked against opened sources; most words await a reader's review.

  1. نَسَبٌlemma نَسَبroot ن س ب
  2. تَحْسَبُlemma حَسِبroot ح س ب
  3. الْعُلَاlemma عُلَاroot ع ل و
  4. بِحُلَاهُlemma حِلْيَةroot ح ل ي
  5. قَلَّدَتْهَاlemma قَلَّدroot ق ل د
  6. نُجُومَهَاlemma نَجْمroot ن ج م
  7. الْجَوْزَاءُlemma جَوْزاءroot ج و ز

Roots in this clause

7 roots, in order of first appearance. Each root page gathers its words across the library.

Notes

  • Printed unvowelled

    نسب تحسب العلا بحلاه · قلدتها نجومها الجوزاء

    The base text (see This edition)

  • Page

    Ḥāshiyat al-Jamal ʿalā al-Hamziyya, Cairo: al-Maṭbaʿa al-Maymaniyya, 1306/1888, p. 8 (pdf 13).

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  • Term

    al-Jawzāʾ is the constellation Gemini (in some usage Orion), pictured here as hanging its stars like a necklace.

  • Vowelled print

    The vowelled Cairo printing (al-Maktaba al-Maḥmūdiyya al-Tijāriyya, undated), pdf 5, used to check the AI vowels.

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