The Criterion 25:40Quranic text
وَلَقَدْأَتَوْا۟عَلَىٱلْقَرْيَةِٱلَّتِىٓأُمْطِرَتْمَطَرَٱلسَّوْءِأَفَلَمْيَكُونُوا۟يَرَوْنَهَابَلْكَانُوا۟لَايَرْجُونَنُشُورًا
Reference 25:40Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 25:40:12
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
- 25 · The Criterion
- Verse
- 25:40
- Word in verse
- 12
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:25:40:12
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 25:40 — 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 came upon the city that was drenched by the terrible rain. Did they not see it? But they do not expect resurrectionAnd indeed they have passed by the township whereon was rained the fatal rain. Can it be that they have not seen it? Nay, but they hope for no resurrectionOft are this have the unbelieving Meccans passed by the city on which was rained a fatal rain. What! Have they not seen it? Yet have they no hope of a resurrectionWhy, they have come past the cities which were rained on with an evil rain; have they not seen them?- nay, they do not hope to be raised up againSame 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
Cited by 0 investigations
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