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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 29:18:9

عَلَى

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
عَلَى Quranic text
Simple
عَلَى
Without tashkeel
على
Normalised (searchable)
علي

Position

Computed
Verse
29:18
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:29:18:9

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(is) on
Transliteration
ʿalā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
عَلَى
Part of speech
Preposition (P)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. عَلَىstem · 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 29:18 — 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 →

If you disbelieve, communities before you have also disbelieved. The Messenger is only responsible for clear transmission
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
But if ye deny, then nations have denied before you. The messenger is only to convey (the message) plainly
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Suppose that ye treat me as a liar! nations before you have treated God's messenger as a liar; but open preaching is his only duty
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And if ye say it is a lie, nations before you called (the apostles) liars too; but an apostle has only his plain message to preach
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 242 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form عَلَى appears 242 times in the corpus.

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Community

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