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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:204:11

عَلَىٰ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
2:204
Word in verse
11
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:204:11

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 2:204 — 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 →

Among the people is he whose speech about the worldly life impresses you, and he calls God to witness what is in his heart, while he is the most hostile of adversaries
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And of mankind there is he whoso conversation on the life of this world pleaseth thee (Muhammad), and he calleth Allah to witness as to that which is in his heart; yet he is the most rigid of opponents
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
A man there is who surpriseth thee by his discourse concerning this life present. He taketh God to witness what is in his heart; yet is he the most zealous in opposing thee
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
There is among men one whose speech about the life of this world pleases thee, and he calls on God to witness what is in his heart; yet is he most fierce in opposition unto thee
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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