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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:80:1

وَقَالُوا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
وَقَالُوا۟ Quranic text
Simple
وَقَالُوا
Without tashkeel
وقالوا
Normalised (searchable)
وقالوا

Position

Computed
Surah
2 · The Cow
Verse
2:80
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:80:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
And they say,
Transliteration
waqālū
Root
ق و لq-w-l
Lemma
قالَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · REM
  2. قَالُstem · V · ق و ل
  3. وا۟suffix · 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 2:80 — 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 they say, “The Fire will not touch us except for a number of days.” Say, “Have you received a promise from God—God never breaks His promise—or are you saying about God what you do not know?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And they say: The Fire (of punishment) will not touch us save for a certain number of days. Say: Have ye received a covenant from Allah - truly Allah will not break His covenant - or tell ye concerning Allah that which ye know not
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And they say, "Hell fire shall not touch us, but for a few days: "SAY: Have ye received such a promise from God? for God will not revoke his promise: or, Speak ye of God that which ye know not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And then they say, 'Hell fire shall not touch us save for a number of days.' Say, 'Have ye taken a covenant with God?' but God breaks not His covenant. Or do ye say of God that which ye do not know
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 49 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَقَالُوا۟ appears 49 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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