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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 19:8:1

قَالَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
19 · Mary
Verse
19:8
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:19:8:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
He said,
Transliteration
qāla
Root
ق و لq-w-l
Lemma
قالَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. قَالَstem · V · ق و ل

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 19:8 — 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 →

He said, “My Lord, how can I have a son, when my wife is barren, and I have become decrepit with old age?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He said: My Lord! How can I have a son when my wife is barren and I have reached infirm old age
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
He said: "O my Lord! how when my wife is barren shall I have a son, and when I have now reached old age, failing in my powers
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said he, 'My Lord! how can I have a son, when my wife is barren, and I have reached through old age to decrepitude
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 412 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form قَالَ appears 412 times in the corpus.

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Root ق و ل · 1722 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق و ل occurs 1722 times across 146 distinct forms.

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