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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:51:1

قَالَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
20 · Taa-Haa
Verse
20:51
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:51:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
He said,
Transliteration
qāla
Root
ق و لq-w-l
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 · 5 editions

These translations render verse 20:51 — 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 →

He said, “What about the first generations?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He said: What then is the state of the generations of old
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
But what," said he, "was the state of generations past
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said he, 'And what of the former generations
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
he said so what the case of the generations the first

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.

Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0How this was produced

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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