وَقَالُوٓا۟ — Quran 25:5:1 · root ق و ل

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): وَقَالُوٓا۟ Quranic text
Simple: وَقَالُوٓا
Without tashkeel: وقالوا
Normalised (searchable): وقالوا

Position

Computed

Surah: 25 · The Criterion
Verse: 25:5
Word in verse: 1
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:25:5:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: And they say,
Transliteration: waqālū

Root: ق و لq-w-l
Lemma: قالَ
Part of speech: Verb (V)
Features: tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

وَprefix · CONJ
قَالُstem · V · ق و ل
وٓا۟suffix · PRON

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

The Criterion 25:5Quranic text

وَقَالُوٓا۟أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ٱكْتَتَبَهَا فَهِىَ تُمْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ بُكْرَةً وَأَصِيلًا

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 25:5 — 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 say, “Tales of the ancients; he wrote them down; they are dictated to him morning and evening.”

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

And they say: Fables of the men of old which he hath had written down so that they are dictated to him morn and evening

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And they say, "Tales of the ancients that he hath put in writing! and they were dictated to him morn and even

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

And they say, 'Old folks' tales, which he has got written down while they are dictated to him morning and evening

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 11 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَقَالُوٓا۟ appears 11 times in the corpus.

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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