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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:61:7

عَلَى

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
عَلَى Quranic text
Simple
عَلَى
Without tashkeel
على
Normalised (searchable)
علي

Position

Computed
Verse
20:61
Word in verse
7
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:61:7

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
against
Transliteration
ʿalā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
عَلَى
Part of speech
Preposition (P)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. عَلَىstem · P

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 20:61 — 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 →

Moses said to them, “Woe to you. Do not fabricate lies against God, or He will destroy you with a punishment. He who invents lies will fail.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Moses said unto them: Woe unto you! Invent not a lie against Allah, lest He extirpate you by some punishment. He who lieth faileth miserably
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Said Moses to them, "Woe to you! devise not a lie against God: For then will he destroy you by a punishment. They who have lied have ever perished
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said Moses to them, 'Woe to you! do not forge against God a lie; lest He destroy you by torment; for disappointed has ever been he who has forged
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 242 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form عَلَى appears 242 times in the corpus.

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