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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:117:2

قَلِيلٌ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
16 · The Bee
Verse
16:117
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:117:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
little
Transliteration
qalīlun
Root
ق ل لq-l-l
Lemma
قَلِيل
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMstate: indefinitegender: Mnumber: singularadjective: true

Sub-word segments

  1. قَلِيلٌstem · N · ق ل ل

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 · 5 editions

These translations render verse 16:117 — 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 →

A brief enjoyment—then they will have a painful punishment
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
A brief enjoyment (will be theirs); and theirs a painful doom
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Brief their enjoyment, but sore their punishment
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
A little enjoyment - then for them is grievous woe
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
enjoyment few and for them punishment painful

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 · 8 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form قَلِيلٌ appears 8 times in the corpus.

Root ق ل ل · 76 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق ل ل occurs 76 times across 12 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ق ل ل →

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