The Prophets 21:26Quranic text
وَقَالُوا۟ٱتَّخَذَٱلرَّحْمَٰنُوَلَدًاسُبْحَٰنَهُۥبَلْعِبَادٌمُّكْرَمُونَ
Reference 21:26Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:26:6
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
- 21:26
- Word in verse
- 6
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:26:6
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 21:26 — 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 →
And they say, “The Most Merciful has taken to himself a son.” Be He glorified; they are but honored servantsAnd they say: The Beneficent hath taken unto Himself a son. Be He Glorified! Nay, but (those whom they call sons) are honoured slavesYet they say, "The God of Mercy hath begotten issue from the angels." Glory be to Him! Nay, they are but His honoured servantsAnd they say, 'The Merciful has taken a son; celebrated be His praise!' - Nay, honoured servantsSame 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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