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Muhammad Asad Buy
like giant fiery ropes
Arthur John Arberry Buy
sparks like to golden herds
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985) Buy
"As if there were (a string of) yellow camels (marching swiftly)."
Source Arabic and Literal tools
Transliteration-2 Buy
ka-annahu jimālatun ṣuf'ru
Word by Word (2021)
As if they (were) camels yellow.
Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad Buy
like giant fiery ropes
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall Buy
(Or) as it might be camels of bright yellow hue
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985) Buy
"As if there were (a string of) yellow camels (marching swiftly)."
Mustafa Khattab 2018 Buy
and ˹as dark˺ as black camels.”
Safi Kaskas 2025 Buy
like giant fiery ropes.
Wahiduddin Khan Buy
and as bright as a herd of yellow camels
Shakir Buy
As if they were tawny camels
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar Buy
as though it was a string of saffron-colored male camels.
T.B.Irving Buy
[bright] as a yellow camel herd.
Abdul Hye Buy
as if they were yellow camels.”
Saeed Malik Buy
[collapsing under the fire] as if it were ropes, reduced to nothingness.
The Study Quran Buy
as though they were yellow camels
Talal Itani (2012) Buy
As if they were yellow camels
Talal Itani & AI (2025) Buy
Like tawny camels.
Dr. Kamal Omar
as if those are camels in groups, of light yellow colour
M. Farook Malik Buy
as if they were yellow camels."
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali Buy
As if they were yellow (heaps) of cables (Or: golden herds)
Muhammad Sarwar Buy
and yellow camels
Muhammad Taqi Usmani Buy
as if they were yellowish camels
Shabbir Ahmed Buy
Moving like the caravans of bright yellow camels
Dr. Munir Munshey
Which would look like yellow camels
Syed Vickar Ahamed Buy
"As if there were (a string of) yellow camels (marching swiftly)."
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International) Buy
As if they were yellowish [black] camels
[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition) Buy
As if they were yellow camels.
Abdel Haleem Buy
and as bright as copper
Abdul Majid Daryabadi Buy
As though they were camels yellow tawny
Ahmed Ali Buy
So like golden camels."
Aisha Bewley Buy
like a herd of yellow camels.
Ali Ünal Buy
(Scattered abroad) as if they were yellow camels
Ali Quli Qara'i Buy
[bright] as if they were yellow camels
Hamid S. Aziz Buy
As if they were tawny camels
Bilal Muhammad 2018 Buy
“As if there were yellow camels.
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
as if they were yellow camels.”
Musharraf Hussain Buy
like pieces of copper.
Maududi Buy
which seem as though they are yellow-coloured camels
Mohammad Shafi Buy
[Or] like thick yellow ropes
Controversial or status undetermined works
Rashad Khalifa Buy
As yellow as the color of camels
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) Buy
As they were yellow camels.
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
as black camels
Maulana Muhammad Ali Buy
As if they were tawny camels
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
As though it (is) camels yellow
Bijan Moeinian Buy
which are as yellow as the color of the camels
Faridul Haque Buy
Seeming like yellow camels
Sher Ali Buy
As if they were tawny camels
Edip Yuksel Buy
As if they were yellow camels/ropes.
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri Buy
(It also appears) as if those (sparks) are yellow camels
Amatul Rahman Omar Buy
(Sparks) that look like tawny camels
Hilali - Khan Buy
As if they were Jimalatun Sufr (yellow camels or bundles of ropes)."
Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry Buy
sparks like to golden herds
George Sale Buy
resembling yellow camels in colour
Edward Henry Palmer Buy
as though they were yellow camels
John Medows Rodwell Buy
Like tawny camels
N J Dawood 2014 Buy
as bright as yellow camels
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Shuaib Abdullahi Buy
as if they (the sparks) (Ka'annahu) were yellow (Suf'r) camels (Jimaalatun).
Fode Drame Buy
As though it were yellow camels.
MunirMezyed2023 Buy
As if they were dark yellow camels.
Mustaqim
Like brass cables.
Linda "iLham" Barto Buy
It looks like [a race of] yellow camels.
Fadel Soliman-The Bridges Translation Buy
as if they are yellow camels.
Irving/Hegab Buy
[bright] as a yellow camel herd.
Samy Mahdy Buy
As if they were yellow camels.
Qarai Buy
[bright] like yellow camels.
Thomas Cleary Buy
like a herd of yellow camels."
Ahmed Hulusi Buy
Sparks like giant golden ropes!
Mubarakpuri Buy
As if they were Sufr camels.
A. S. Mohamed Buy
as if they were yellow camels.
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli Buy
As if there were (a string of) yellow camels (marching swiftly
Mir Aneesuddin
as if they were yellow camels.”
[Al-Muntakhab]
Sparks looking like huge implements covered with copper troubling the infidels grievously and subjecting them to a severe distress
The Wise Quran Project
As though they were yellow camels.
Newest Translations 2026
Zulfiquar Ali Bhotto
As if they were yellow camels.
Verbatim Quran - Mahmoud K
As if they were yellow cables.
Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938) Buy
"As if there were (a string of) yellow camels (marching swiftly)."
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition) Buy
As if they were yellow camels.
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition) Buy
As if they were yellow camels
OLD Word by Word
As if they (were) camels yellow
Transliteration Buy
Kaannahu jimalatun sufrun