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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:85:1

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
12:85
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:85:1

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

Morphology is an external annotation from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus, licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. It is not Quranic text and never alters the token.

In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 12:85 — 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, “By God, you will not stop remembering Joseph, until you have ruined your health, or you have passed away.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
They said: By Allah, thou wilt never cease remembering Joseph till thy health is ruined or thou art of those who perish
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They said, "By God thou wilt only cease to think of Joseph when thou art at the point of death, or dead
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They said, 'By God! thou wilt not cease to remember Joseph till thou art at the point of death, or art of those who perish
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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