The Cow 2:70Quranic text
قَالُوا۟ٱدْعُلَنَارَبَّكَيُبَيِّنلَّنَامَاهِىَإِنَّٱلْبَقَرَتَشَٰبَهَعَلَيْنَاوَإِنَّآإِنشَآءَٱللَّهُلَمُهْتَدُونَ
Reference 2:70Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:70:12
عَلَيْنَا
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- عَلَيْنَا Quranic text
- Simple
- عَلَيْنَا
- Without tashkeel
- علينا
- Normalised (searchable)
- علينا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 2 · The Cow
- Verse
- 2:70
- Word in verse
- 12
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:70:12
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- to us.
- Transliteration
- ʿalaynā
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- عَلَى
- Part of speech
- Preposition (P)
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- عَلَيْstem · P
- نَاsuffix · PRON
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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 2:70 — 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 →
They said, “Call upon your Lord to show us which one; the heifers look alike to us; and God willing, we will be guided.”They said: Pray for us unto thy Lord that He make clear to us what (cow) she is. Lo! cows are much alike to us; and Lo! if Allah wills, we may be led arightThey said, "Call on they Lord for us that He would make plain to us what cow it is - for to us are cows alike, - and verily, if God please, we shall be guided rightlyAgain they said, 'Pray thy Lord to show us what she is to be; for cows appear the same to us; then we, if God will, shall be guidedSame form · 41 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form عَلَيْنَا appears 41 times in the corpus.
- عَلَيْنَا2:91:12
- عَلَيْنَا2:247:16
- عَلَيْنَا2:250:8
- عَلَيْنَا3:75:27
- عَلَيْنَا3:84:6
- عَلَيْنَا4:77:31
- عَلَيْنَا5:112:12
- عَلَيْنَا5:114:8
- عَلَيْنَا6:157:6
- عَلَيْنَا7:39:7
- عَلَيْنَا7:50:8
- عَلَيْنَا7:126:13
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