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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 28:38:1

وَقَالَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
28:38
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:28:38:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
waqāla
Lemma
قالَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. 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 28:38 — 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 →

Pharaoh said, “O nobles, I know of no god for you other than me. So fire-up the bricks for me O Hamaan, and build me a tower, that I may ascend to the God of Moses, though I think he is a liar.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And Pharaoh said: O chiefs! I know not that ye have a god other than me, so kindle for me (a fire), O Haman, to bake the mud; and set up for me a lofty tower in order that I may survey the god of Moses; and lo! I deem him of the liars
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And Pharaoh said, "O ye nobles, ye have no other God that I know of but myself. Burn me then, Haman, bricks of clay, and build me a tower that I may mount up to the God of Moses, for in sooth, I deem him a liar
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And Pharaoh said, 'O ye chiefs! I do not know any god for you except me; then set fire, O Haman! to some clay and make for me a tower, haply I may mount up to the God of Moses; for, verity, I think he is of those who lie
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 85 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَقَالَ appears 85 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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