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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:88:3

عِجْلًا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
20:88
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:88:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
ʿij'lan
Lemma
عِجْل
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. عِجْلًاstem · N · ع ج ل

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 20:88 — 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 →

So he produced for them a calf—a mere body which lowed. And they said, “This is your god, and the god of Moses, but he has forgotten.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Then he produced for them a calf, of saffron hue, which gave forth a lowing sound. And they cried: This is your god and the god of Moses, but he hath forgotten
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
and brought forth to them a corporeal lowing calf: and they said, "This is your God and the God of Moses, whom he hath forgotten
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
and he brought forth for the people a corporeal calf which lowed.' And they said, 'This is your god and the god of Moses, but he has forgotten
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 2 occurrences

Computed

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

Root ع ج ل · 47 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ع ج ل occurs 47 times across 28 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ع ج ل

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