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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:181:14

قَالُوا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
قَالُوا۟ Quranic text
Simple
قَالُوا
Without tashkeel
قالوا
Normalised (searchable)
قالوا

Position

Computed
Surah
3 · The Family of Imraan
Verse
3:181
Word in verse
14
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:181:14

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
they said
Transliteration
qālū
Root
ق و لq-w-l
Lemma
قالَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. قَالُstem · V · ق و ل
  2. وا۟suffix · 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

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 3:181 — 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 →

God has heard the statement of those who said, “God is poor, and we are rich.” We will write down what they said, and their wrongful killing of the prophets; and We will say, “Taste the torment of the burning.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Verily Allah heard the saying of those who said, (when asked for contributions to the war): "Allah, forsooth, is poor, and we are rich!" We shall record their saying with their slaying of the prophets wrongfully and We shall say: Taste ye the punishment of burning
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Now hath God heard the saying of those who said: "Aye, God is poor and we are rich." We will surely write down their sayings, and their unjust slaughter of the prophets; and and we will say, "Taste ye the torment of the burning
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
God heard the speech of those who said, 'Verily, God is poor and we are rich.' We will write down what they said, and how they killed the prophets undeservedly, and say, 'Taste ye the torment of burning
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 173 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form قَالُوا۟ appears 173 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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