An Analysis of Word Formation in English Translation of Holy Qur’an by Maulawi Sher ‘Ali

This research provides an analysis of word formation in Surah Al-Qalam. The data in this thesis were taken from the English Translation of Holy Qur'an by Maulawi Sher 'Ali. This research used the word formation theory proposed by O'Grady and Alchilbald (2016)to find out the types of word formation in Surah Al-Qalam. The research methodology that was used is descriptive qualitative method since the collected data is in the form of sentences. The study found 125 data of word formation in the English Translation of Holy Qur'an's Surah Al-Qalam. Specifically, there were 39 derivation process, 34 inflection process, 27 suppletion process, 9 reduplication process, 6 compounding process, 5 conversion process, 3 backformation process, and 2 internal change process.Derivation is the most dominant process that is found in Surah Al-Qalam. There was 39 data from the total 125 of the data.