The Prophets 21:5Quranic text
بَلْقَالُوٓا۟أَضْغَٰثُأَحْلَٰمٍۭبَلِٱفْتَرَىٰهُبَلْهُوَشَاعِرٌفَلْيَأْتِنَابِـَٔايَةٍكَمَآأُرْسِلَٱلْأَوَّلُونَ
Reference 21:5Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:5:1
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
- 21:5
- Word in verse
- 1
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:5:1
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 21:5 — 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 said, “A jumble of dreams,” and, “He made it up,” and, “He is a poet,” “let him bring us a sign, like those sent to the ancients.”Nay, say they, (these are but) muddled dreams; nay, he hath but invented it; nay, he is but a poet. Let him bring us a portent even as those of old (who were Allah's messengers) were sent (with portents)Nay," say they, "it is the medley of dreams: nay, he hath forged it: nay, he is a poet: let him come to us with a sign as the prophets of old were sentNay!' they say, 'a jumble of dreams; nay! he has forged it; nay! he is a poet; but let him bring us a sign as those of yore were sentSame 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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