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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:78:1

قَالُوا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
قَالُوا۟ Quranic text
Simple
قَالُوا
Without tashkeel
قالوا
Normalised (searchable)
قالوا

Position

Computed
Verse
12:78
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:78:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
qālū
Lemma
قالَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. قَالُstem · V · ق و ل
  2. وا۟suffix · PRON

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 12:78 — 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 →

They said, “O noble prince, he has a father, a very old man, so take one of us in his place. We see that you are a good person.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
They said: O ruler of the land! Lo! he hath a very aged father, so take one of us instead of him. Lo! we behold thee of those who do kindness
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They said, "O Prince! Verily he hath a very aged father; in his stead, therefore, take one of us, for we see that thou art a generous person
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They said, 'O prince! Verily, he has a father, a very old man; take then one of us instead of him; verily, we can see that thou art of those who do good
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 173 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form قَالُوا۟ appears 173 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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