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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:103:2

نَعْلَمُ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
16:103
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:103:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
We know
Transliteration
naʿlamu
Lemma
عَلِمَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: IMPFmood: INDperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. نَعْلَمُstem · V · ع ل م

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 5 editions

These translations render verse 16:103 — 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 →

We are well aware that they say, “It is a human being who is teaching him.” But the tongue of him they allude to is foreign, while this is a clear Arabic tongue
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And We know well that they say: Only a man teacheth him. The speech of him at whom they falsely hint is outlandish, and this is clear Arabic speech
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
We also know that they say, "Surely a certain person teacheth him." But the tongue of him at whom they hint is foreign, while this Koran is in the plain Arabic
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
We knew that they said, 'It is only some mortal who teaches him.' - The tongue of him they lean towards is barbarous, and this is plain Arabic
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
and indeed We know that they say only he teaches human being tongue who they distort to him foreign and this tongue Arabic clear

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.

Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0How this was produced

Same form · 5 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form نَعْلَمُ appears 5 times in the corpus.

Root ع ل م · 854 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ع ل م occurs 854 times across 161 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ع ل م

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