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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:52:2

قَالَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
21 · The Prophets
Verse
21:52
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:52:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
he said
Transliteration
qāla
Root
ق و لq-w-l
Lemma
قالَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. قَالَstem · V · ق و ل

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 21:52 — 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 →

When he said to his father and his people, “What are these statues to which you are devoted?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
When he said unto his father and his folk: What are these images unto which ye pay devotion
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
When he said to his Father and to his people, "What are these images to which ye are devoted
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
When he said to his father and to his people, 'What are these images to which ye pay devotion
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 412 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form قَالَ appears 412 times in the corpus.

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Root ق و ل · 1722 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق و ل occurs 1722 times across 146 distinct forms.

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