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The Hamziyya: the opening

الهمزية

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Clause 11 of 11 · Chosen through the generations

حَبَّذَا عِقْدُ سُؤْدُدٍ وَفَخَارٍ أَنْتَ فِيهِ الْيَتِيمَةُ الْعَصْمَاءُ

How fine a necklace of lordship and glory, and you are its matchless pearl, kept safe.

Ḥabbadhā ʿiqdu suʾdudin wa-fakhārin / anta fīhi l-yatīmatu l-ʿaṣmāʾu

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. حَبَّذَاlemma حَبَّذاroot ح ب ذ
  2. عِقْدُlemma عِقْدroot ع ق د
  3. سُؤْدُدٍlemma سُؤْدُدroot س و د
  4. وَفَخَارٍlemma فُخْرَةroot ف خ ر
  5. أَنْتَ
  6. فِيهِlemma فِي
  7. الْيَتِيمَةُlemma يَتِيمroot ي ت م
  8. الْعَصْمَاءُlemma أَعْصَمroot ع ص م

Roots in this clause

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

Notes

  • Printed unvowelled

    حبذا عقد سودد وفخار · أنت فيه اليتيمة العصماء

    The base text (see This edition)

  • Page

    Ḥāshiyat al-Jamal ʿalā al-Hamziyya, Cairo: al-Maṭbaʿa al-Maymaniyya, 1306/1888, p. 9 (pdf 14).

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  • Term

    al-yatīma, the orphan pearl, is a pearl without equal; here it also hints that the Prophet was an orphan.

  • Reading

    This verse stands alone in the top margin of the page, above the frame, not in the side margin.

  • 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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