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The Hamziyya: the opening

الهمزية

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Clause 2 of 11 · No prophet reaches your height

لَمْ يُسَاوُوكَ فِي عُلَاكَ وَقَدْ حَا لَ سَنًا مِنْكَ دُونَهُمْ وَسَنَاءُ

They did not equal you in your height, for a radiance and a nobility from you stood between them and it.

Lam yusāwūka fī ʿulāka wa-qad ḥā / la sanan minka dūnahum wa-sanāʾu

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. لَمْlemma لَم
  2. يُسَاوُوكَlemma ساوَىroot س و ي
  3. فِي
  4. عُلَاكَlemma عُلَاroot ع ل و
  5. وَقَدْlemma قَدْ
  6. حَاlemma حَالَroot ح و ل
  7. لَlemma حَالَroot ح و ل
  8. سَنًاlemma سَنَىroot س ن و
  9. مِنْكَlemma مِن
  10. دُونَهُمْlemma دُونroot د و ن
  11. وَسَنَاءُlemma سَناءroot س ن و

Roots in this clause

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

Notes

  • Printed unvowelled

    لم يساووك فى علاك وقد حا · ل سنى منك دونهم وسناء

    The base text (see This edition)

  • Page

    Ḥāshiyat al-Jamal ʿalā al-Hamziyya, Cairo: al-Maṭbaʿa al-Maymaniyya, 1306/1888, p. 4 (pdf 9).

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  • Term

    sanā (short) is brightness and sanāʾ (long) is high rank; the line plays on the pair.

  • Vowelled print

    The vowelled Cairo printing (al-Maktaba al-Maḥmūdiyya al-Tijāriyya, undated), pdf 4, used to check the AI vowels.

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