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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:56:2

بَل

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
21 · The Prophets
Verse
21:56
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:56:2

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

  1. بَلstem · 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 21:56 — 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 →

He said, “Your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, the One who created them, and I bear witness to that
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He said: Nay, but your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, Who created them; and I am of those who testify unto that
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
He said, "Nay, your Lord is Lord of the Heavens and of the Earth, who hath created them both; and to this am I one of those who witness
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
He said, 'Nay, but your Lord is Lord of the heavens and the earth, which He originated; and I am of those who testify to this
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 16 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form بَل appears 16 times in the corpus.

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Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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