ٱلْعِجْلَ — Quran 2:51:8 · root ع ج ل

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): ٱلْعِجْلَ Quranic text
Simple: الْعِجْلَ
Without tashkeel: ٱلعجل
Normalised (searchable): العجل

Position

Computed

Surah: 2 · The Cow
Verse: 2:51
Word in verse: 8
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:51:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: the calf
Transliteration: l-ʿij'la

Root: ع ج لaa-j-l
Lemma: عِجْل
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: ACCgender: M

Sub-word segments

ٱلْprefix · DET
عِجْلَstem · N · ع ج ل

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Cow 2:51Quranic text

وَإِذْ وَٰعَدْنَا مُوسَىٰٓ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً ثُمَّ ٱتَّخَذْتُمُ ٱلْعِجْلَ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ وَأَنتُمْ ظَٰلِمُونَ

← ٱتَّخَذْتُمُ 2:51:7 مِنۢ 2:51:9 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 2:51 — 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 →

And recall that We appointed for Moses forty nights. Then you took to worshiping the calf after him, and you turned wicked

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

And when We did appoint for Moses forty nights (of solitude), and then ye chose the calf, when he had gone from you, and were wrong-doers

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And when we were in treaty with Moses forty nights: then during his absence took ye the calf and acted wickedly

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

When we treated with Moses forty nights, then ye took the calf after he had gone and ye did wrong

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 6 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form ٱلْعِجْلَ appears 6 times in the corpus.

Root ع ج ل · 47 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ع ج ل occurs 47 times across 28 distinct forms.

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