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Muhammad Asad
HE FROWNED and turned awa
Arthur John Arberry
He frowned and turned awa
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
(The Prophet) frowned and turned away
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 عَبَسَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ
Transliteration-3
‘abasa watawallā
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He ˹Prophet˺ frowned and turned away
Word by Word (2021)
He frowned and turned away,
Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
HE FROWNED and turned awa
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
He frowned and turned awa
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
(The Prophet) frowned and turned away
Mustafa Khattab 2018
He frowned and turned ˹his attention˺ away,
Safi Kaskas 2025
He frowned and turned away
Wahiduddin Khan
He frowned and turned awa
Shakir
He frowned and turned (his) back
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
He frowned and turned away
T.B.Irving
He frowned and turned away
Abdul Hye
He (the prophet) frowned and turned away,
Saeed Malik
He frowned, and turned away,
The Study Quran
He frowned and turned away
Talal Itani & AI (2025)
He frowned and turned away.
Talal Itani (2012)
He frowned and turned away
Dr. Kamal Omar
He frowned and turned away
M. Farook Malik
He (the Prophet) frowned and turned awa
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
He (The prophet) frowned and turned away
Muhammad Sarwar
He frowned and then turned awa
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
He (the Prophet) frowned and turned his face
Shabbir Ahmed
Someone frowned and turned away
Dr. Munir Munshey
He frowned and turned his face away
Syed Vickar Ahamed
He frowned and turned away
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
The Prophet frowned and turned awa
[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)
He frowned and turned away.
Abdel Haleem
He frowned and turned awa
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
He frowned and turned away
Ahmed Ali
HE FROWNED AND turned away
Aisha Bewley
He frowned and turned away
Ali Ãœnal
He (a disbelieving, haughty man) frowned and turned away
Ali Quli Qara'i
He frowned and turned awa
Hamid S. Aziz
He frowned and turned his back
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
He frowned and turned away
Bilal Muhammad 2018
He frowned and turned away
Musharraf Hussain
He frowned and turned away
Maududi
He frowned and turned awa
Mohammad Shafi
He frowned and turned awa
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
He frowned and turned his face.
Rashad Khalifa
He (Muhammad) frowned and turned away
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
He frowned and turned awa
Maulana Muhammad Ali
He frowned and turned away
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
He frowned/knit or contracted his brows and he turned away
Bijan Moeinian
Mohammad frowned and turned away
Faridul Haque
He frowned and turned away
Sher Ali
He frowned and turned aside
Edip Yuksel
He frowned and turned away.
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
A feeling of uneasiness came upon his (holy) face, and he turned aside his (radiant) face
Amatul Rahman Omar
He (- the Prophet) frowned and turned aside
Hilali - Khan
(The Prophet (Peace be upon him)) frowned and turned away
Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry
He frowned and turned awa
George Sale
The prophet frowned, and turned aside
Edward Henry Palmer
He frowned and turned his back
John Medows Rodwell
HE FROWNED, and he turned his back
N J Dawood 2014
HE¹ FROWNED and turned his bac
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Shuaib Abdullahi
He frowned (Äbasa)* and (Wa) turned away (Tawalla),
Fode Drame
He frowned and turned away.
MunirMezyed2023
He frowned and walked away
Mustaqim
He frowned and turned away,
Linda "iLham" Barto
He [the Prophet] frowned and turned away…
Fadel Soliman-The Bridges Translation
He frowned and turned away
Irving/Hegab
He frowned and turned away
Samy Mahdy
He frowned and turned away.
Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)
He frowned and turned away
Qarai
He frowned and turned away
Ahmed Hulusi
He frowned and turned away!
Mubarakpuri
He frowned and turned away.
A. S. Mohamed
He frowned and turned away
Torres Al Haneef (partial translation)
He frowned and turned awa
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
He frowned and turned away
[Al-Muntakhab]
He, -the Messenger- frowned and turned away
Mir Aneesuddin
He (Muhammed) frowned and turned his back,
The Wise Quran Project
He frowned and turned away,
Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)
(The Prophet) frowned and turned away
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
He frowned and turned away.
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
He frowned and turned away
OLD Word by Word
He frowned and turned away
Transliteration
AAabasa watawalla