The Night Journey 17:21Quranic text
ٱنظُرْكَيْفَفَضَّلْنَابَعْضَهُمْعَلَىٰبَعْضٍوَلَلْـَٔاخِرَةُأَكْبَرُدَرَجَٰتٍوَأَكْبَرُتَفْضِيلًا
Reference 17:21Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 17:21:5
عَلَىٰ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- عَلَىٰ Quranic text
- Simple
- عَلَىٰ
- Without tashkeel
- على
- Normalised (searchable)
- علي
Position
Computed- Verse
- 17:21
- Word in verse
- 5
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:17:21:5
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- over
- Transliteration
- ʿalā
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- عَلَى
- Part of speech
- Preposition (P)
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- عَلَىٰstem · P
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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 17:21 — 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 →
See how We have favored some of them over others; yet the Hereafter is greater in ranks, and greater in favorsSee how We prefer one of them above another, and verily the Hereafter will be greater in degrees and greater in prefermentSee how we have caused some of them to excel others! but the next life shall be greater in its grades, and greater in excellenceSee how we have preferred some of them over others, but in the next life are greater degrees and greater preferenceSame form · 347 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form عَلَىٰ appears 347 times in the corpus.
- عَلَىٰ2:5:2
- عَلَىٰ2:7:3
- عَلَىٰ2:20:22
- عَلَىٰ2:23:7
- عَلَىٰ2:61:6
- عَلَىٰ2:90:16
- عَلَىٰ2:90:23
- عَلَىٰ2:96:4
- عَلَىٰ2:97:8
- عَلَىٰ2:102:5
- عَلَىٰ2:106:16
- عَلَىٰ2:109:30
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