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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:4:6

ٱلْعُلَى

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
ٱلْعُلَى Quranic text
Simple
الْعُلَى
Without tashkeel
ٱلعلى
Normalised (searchable)
العلي

Position

Computed
Surah
20 · Taa-Haa
Verse
20:4
Word in verse
6
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:4:6

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
[the] high,
Transliteration
l-ʿulā
Root
ع ل وaa-l-w
Lemma
عُلْيا
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCnumber: pluraladjective: true

Sub-word segments

  1. ٱلْprefix · DET
  2. عُلَىstem · N · ع ل و

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 20:4 — 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 →

A revelation from He who created the earth and the high heavens
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
A revelation from Him Who created the earth and the high heavens
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
It is a missive from Him who hath made the earth and the lofty heavens
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
descending from Him who created the earth and the high heavens
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root ع ل و · 70 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ع ل و occurs 70 times across 37 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ع ل و →

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Community

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