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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:120:4

قَالَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
20:120
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:120:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
qāla
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 20:120 — 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 →

But Satan whispered to him. He said, “O Adam, shall I show you the Tree of Immortality, and a kingdom that never decays?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
But the devil whispered to him, saying: O Adam! Shall I show thee the tree of immortality and power that wasteth not away
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
But Satan whispered him: said he, "O Adam! shall I shew thee the tree of Eternity, and the Kingdom that faileth not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
But the devil whispered to him. Said he, 'O Adam! shall I guide thee to the tree of immortality, and a kingdom that shall not wane
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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