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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:63:2

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
21:63
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:63:2

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. 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 5 editions

These translations render verse 21:63 — 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, “But it was this biggest of them that did it. Ask them, if they can speak.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He said: But this, their chief hath done it. So question them, if they can speak
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
He said, "Nay, that their chief hath done it: but ask ye them, if they can speak
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said he, 'Nay, it was this largest of them; but ask them, if they can speak
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
he said rather he did their great this ask if they were they utter

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.

Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0How this was produced

Same form · 97 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form بَلْ appears 97 times in the corpus.

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Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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