Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:48:11

بَلْ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): بَلْ Quranic text
Simple: بَلْ
Without tashkeel: بل
Normalised (searchable): بل

Position

Computed

Surah: 18 · The Cave
Verse: 18:48
Word in verse: 11
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:48:11

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: Nay,
Transliteration: bal

Root: none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma: بَل
Part of speech: RET
Features: —

Sub-word segments

بَلْstem · RET

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Cave 18:48Quranic text

وَعُرِضُوا۟عَلَىٰ رَبِّكَ صَفًّا لَّقَدْ جِئْتُمُونَا كَمَا خَلَقْنَٰكُمْ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍۭ بَلْ زَعَمْتُمْ أَلَّن نَّجْعَلَ لَكُم مَّوْعِدًا

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 18:48 — 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 →

They will be presented before your Lord in a row. “You have come to Us as We created you the first time. Although you claimed We would not set a meeting for you.”

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

And they are set before thy Lord in ranks (and it is said unto them): Now verily have ye come unto Us as We created you at the first. But ye thought that We had set no tryst for you

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And they shall be set before thy Lord in ranks: - "Now are ye come unto us as we created you at first: but ye thought that we should not make good to you the promise

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

Then shall they be presented to thy Lord in ranks. - Now have ye come to us as we created you at first! nay, but ye thought that we would never make our promise good

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 97 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form بَلْ appears 97 times in the corpus.

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