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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 17:84:4

عَلَىٰ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
عَلَىٰ Quranic text
Simple
عَلَىٰ
Without tashkeel
على
Normalised (searchable)
علي

Position

Computed
Surah
17 · The Night Journey
Verse
17:84
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:17:84:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
on
Transliteration
ʿalā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
عَلَى
Part of speech
Preposition (P)
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 17:84 — 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 →

Say, “Each does according to his disposition. Your Lord knows best who is better guided in the way.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Say: Each one doth according to his rule of conduct, and thy Lord is Best Aware of him whose way is right
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
SAY: Every one acteth after his own manner: but your Lord well knoweth who is best guided in his path
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Say, 'Every one acts after his own manner, but your Lord knows, best who is most guided in the way
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 347 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form عَلَىٰ appears 347 times in the corpus.

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Community

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