Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:40:2

قَوْلُنَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): قَوْلُنَا Quranic text
Simple: قَوْلُنَا
Without tashkeel: قولنا
Normalised (searchable): قولنا

Position

Computed

Surah: 16 · The Bee
Verse: 16:40
Word in verse: 2
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:40:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: Our Word
Transliteration: qawlunā

Root: ق و لq-w-l
Lemma: قَوْل
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: NOMgender: Mderivation: VNverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

قَوْلُstem · N · ق و ل
نَاsuffix · PRON

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Bee 16:40Quranic text

إِنَّمَا قَوْلُنَا لِشَىْءٍ إِذَآ أَرَدْنَٰهُ أَن نَّقُولَ لَهُۥ كُن فَيَكُونُ

← إِنَّمَا 16:40:1 لِشَىْءٍ 16:40:3 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 16:40 — 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 →

When We intend for something to happen, We say to it, “Be,” and it becomes

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

And Our word unto a thing, when We intend it, is only that We say unto it: Be! and it is

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

Our word to a thing when we will it, is but to say, "Be," and it is

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

We only say unto a thing we wish,' BE,' and it is

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.

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