The Prophets 21:18Quranic text
بَلْنَقْذِفُبِٱلْحَقِّعَلَىٱلْبَٰطِلِفَيَدْمَغُهُۥفَإِذَاهُوَزَاهِقٌوَلَكُمُٱلْوَيْلُمِمَّاتَصِفُونَ
Reference 21:18Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:18:1
بَلْ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- بَلْ Quranic text
- Simple
- بَلْ
- Without tashkeel
- بل
- Normalised (searchable)
- بل
Position
Computed- Surah
- 21 · The Prophets
- Verse
- 21:18
- Word in verse
- 1
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:18:1
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- Nay,
- Transliteration
- bal
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- بَل
- Part of speech
- RET
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- بَلْstem · RET
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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 21:18 — 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 →
In fact, We hurl the truth against falsehood, and it crushes it, so it vanishes. Woe unto you, for what you describeNay, but We hurl the true against the false, and it doth break its head and lo! it vanisheth. And yours will be woe for that which ye ascribe (unto Him)Nay, we will hurl the truth at falsehood, and it shall smite it, and lo! it shall vanish. But woe be to you for what ye utter of GodNay, we hurl the truth against falsehood and it crashes into it, and lo! it vanishes, but woe to you for what ye attribute (to God)Same form · 97 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form بَلْ appears 97 times in the corpus.
- بَلْ2:100:7
- بَلْ2:135:8
- بَلْ2:154:9
- بَلْ2:170:9
- بَلْ3:169:9
- بَلْ3:180:13
- بَلْ4:155:14
- بَلْ5:18:12
- بَلْ5:64:11
- بَلْ6:28:1
- بَلْ6:41:1
- بَلْ7:81:8
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