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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 19:29:5

نُكَلِّمُ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
نُكَلِّمُ Quranic text
Simple
نُكَلِّمُ
Without tashkeel
نكلم
Normalised (searchable)
نكلم

Position

Computed
Surah
19 · Mary
Verse
19:29
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:19:29:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(can) we speak
Transliteration
nukallimu
Root
ك ل مk-l-m
Lemma
كَلَّمَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: IMPFmood: INDperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 2

Sub-word segments

  1. نُكَلِّمُstem · V · ك ل م

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 19:29 — 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 →

So she pointed to him. They said, “How can we speak to an infant in the crib?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Then she pointed to him. They said: How can we talk to one who is in the cradle, a young boy
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And she made a sign to them, pointing towards the babe. They said, "How shall we speak with him who is in the cradle, an infant
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And she pointed to him, and they said, 'How are we to speak with one who is in the cradle a child
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 ك ل م · 75 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ك ل م occurs 75 times across 48 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ك ل م →

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