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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:51:3

بَالُ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
20 · Taa-Haa
Verse
20:51
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:51:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(is the) case
Transliteration
bālu
Root
ب و لb-w-l
Lemma
بال
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMgender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. بَالُstem · N · ب و ل

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 20:51 — 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

Same form · 2 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form بَالُ appears 2 times in the corpus.

Root ب و ل · 4 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ب و ل occurs 4 times across 2 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ب و ل →

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