The Stories 28:78Quranic text
قَالَإِنَّمَآأُوتِيتُهُۥعَلَىٰعِلْمٍعِندِىٓأَوَلَمْيَعْلَمْأَنَّٱللَّهَقَدْأَهْلَكَمِنقَبْلِهِۦمِنَٱلْقُرُونِمَنْهُوَأَشَدُّمِنْهُقُوَّةًوَأَكْثَرُجَمْعًاوَلَايُسْـَٔلُعَنذُنُوبِهِمُٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ
Reference 28:78Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 28:78:4
عَلَىٰ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- عَلَىٰ Quranic text
- Simple
- عَلَىٰ
- Without tashkeel
- على
- Normalised (searchable)
- علي
Position
Computed- Surah
- 28 · The Stories
- Verse
- 28:78
- Word in verse
- 4
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:28:78:4
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- on (account)
- Transliteration
- ʿalā
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- عَلَى
- Part of speech
- Preposition (P)
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- عَلَىٰstem · P
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 28:78 — 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, “I was given all this on account of knowledge I possess.” Did he not know that God destroyed many generations before him, who were stronger than he, and possessed greater riches? But the guilty will not be asked about their sinsHe said: I have been given it only on account of knowledge I possess. Knew he not that Allah had destroyed already of the generations before him men who were mightier than him in strength and greater in respect of following? The guilty are not questioned of their sinsHe said, "It hath been given me only on account of the knowledge that is in me." Did he not know that God had destroyed before him generations that were mightier than he in strength and had amassed more abundant wealth? But the wicked shall not be asked of their crimesSaid he, 'I have only been given it for knowledge which I have!' did he not know that God had destroyed before him many generations of those who were stronger than he, and had amassed more? But the sinners need not to be asked concerning their crimesSame form · 347 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form عَلَىٰ appears 347 times in the corpus.
- عَلَىٰ2:5:2
- عَلَىٰ2:7:3
- عَلَىٰ2:20:22
- عَلَىٰ2:23:7
- عَلَىٰ2:61:6
- عَلَىٰ2:90:16
- عَلَىٰ2:90:23
- عَلَىٰ2:96:4
- عَلَىٰ2:97:8
- عَلَىٰ2:102:5
- عَلَىٰ2:106:16
- عَلَىٰ2:109:30
Cited by 0 investigations
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