Skip to content
quranbench
Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 15:15:1

لَقَالُوٓا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
لَقَالُوٓا۟ Quranic text
Simple
لَقَالُوٓا
Without tashkeel
لقالوا
Normalised (searchable)
لقالوا

Position

Computed
Surah
15 · The Rock
Verse
15:15
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:15:15:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
They would surely say
Transliteration
laqālū
Root
ق و لq-w-l
Lemma
قالَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. لَprefix · EMPH
  2. قَالُstem · V · ق و ل
  3. وٓا۟suffix · 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 15:15 — 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 would still say, “Our eyes are hallucinating; in fact, we are people bewitched.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
They would say: Our sight is wrong - nay, but we are folk bewitched
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They would surely say: It is only that our eyes are drunken: nay, we are a people enchanted
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
then also had they said, 'Our eye-sight is only intoxicated; nay, we are an enchanted people
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root ق و ل · 1722 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

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

See the full root page for ق و ل →

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

No published investigation cites this word yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.