Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:54:14

جَدَلًا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): جَدَلًا Quranic text
Simple: جَدَلًا
Without tashkeel: جدلا
Normalised (searchable): جدلا

Position

Computed

Surah: 18 · The Cave
Verse: 18:54
Word in verse: 14
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:54:14

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: quarrelsome.
Transliteration: jadalan

Root: ج د لj-d-l
Lemma: جَدَل
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

جَدَلًاstem · N · ج د ل

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Cave 18:54Quranic text

وَلَقَدْ صَرَّفْنَا فِى هَٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانِ لِلنَّاسِ مِن كُلِّ مَثَلٍ وَكَانَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَكْثَرَ شَىْءٍ جَدَلًا

← شَىْءٍ 18:54:13 وَمَا 18:55:1 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 18:54 — 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 →

We have elaborated in this Quran for the people every kind of example, but the human being is a most argumentative being

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

And verily We have displayed for mankind in this Qur'an all manner of similitudes, but man is more than anything contentious

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And now in this Koran we have presented to man similitudes of every kind: but, at most things is man a caviller

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

We have turned about in this Qur'an for men every parable; but man is ever at most things a caviller

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 ج د ل · 29 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ج د ل occurs 29 times across 20 distinct forms.

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