Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
And [one day] he looked in vain for [a particular one of] the birds; and so he said: How is it that I do not see the hoopoe? Or could he be among the absent
Arthur John Arberry
And he reviewed the birds; then he said, 'How is it with me, that I do not see the hoopoe? Or is he among the absent
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
And he took a muster of the Birds; and he said: "Why is it I see not the Hoopoe? Or is he among the absentees
Arabic
وَتَفَقَّدَ ٱلطَّیۡرَ فَقَالَ مَا لِیَ لَاۤ أَرَى ٱلۡهُدۡهُدَ أَمۡ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلۡغَاۤىِٕبِینَ ٢٠
Transliteration (2021)
watafaqqada l-ṭayra faqāla mā liya lā arā l-hud'huda am kāna mina l-ghāibīn