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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 29:20:16

عَلَىٰ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
29:20
Word in verse
16
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:29:20:16

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 29:20 — 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 →

Say, “Roam the earth, and observe how He originated the creation.” Then God will bring about the next existence. God has power over all things.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Say (O Muhammad): Travel in the land and see how He originated creation, then Allah bringeth forth the later growth. Lo! Allah is Able to do all things
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
SAY, Go through the earth, and see how he hath brought forth created beings. Hereafter, with a second birth will God cause them to be born again; for God is Almighty
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Say, 'Journey ye on in the land, and behold how the creation appeared; then God produces another production: verily, God is mighty over all
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 347 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form عَلَىٰ appears 347 times in the corpus.

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