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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:4:2

قَالَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
قَالَ Quranic text
Simple
قَالَ
Without tashkeel
قال
Normalised (searchable)
قال

Position

Computed
Verse
12:4
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:4:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
said
Transliteration
qāla
Lemma
قالَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. قَالَstem · V · ق و ل

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 12:4 — the whole verse this word appears in — not this word alone. The correspondence is verse-level: no word-level alignment of translations exists for these editions, so we do not claim which English word renders this Arabic word. Compare the editions →

When Joseph said to his father, “O my father, I saw eleven planets, and the sun, and the moon; I saw them bowing down to me.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
When Joseph said unto his father: O my father! Lo! I saw in a dream eleven planets and the sun and the moon, I saw them prostrating themselves unto me
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
When Joseph said to his Father, "O my Father! verily I beheld eleven stars and the sun and the moon - beheld them make obeisance to me
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
When Joseph said to his father, 'O my sire! Verily, I saw eleven stars, and the sun, and the moon,- I saw them adoring me
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 412 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form قَالَ appears 412 times in the corpus.

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Root ق و ل · 1722 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق و ل occurs 1722 times across 146 distinct forms.

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