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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:40:1

قَالَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
3 · The Family of Imraan
Verse
3:40
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:40:1

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. قَالَstem · V · ق و ل

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 5 editions

These translations render verse 3:40 — 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, “My Lord, how will I have a son, when old age has overtaken me, and my wife is barren?” He said, “Even so, God does whatever He wills.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He said: My Lord! How can I have a son when age hath overtaken me already and my wife is barren? (The angel) answered: So (it will be). Allah doeth what He will
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
He said, "O my Lord! how shall I have a son, now that old age hath come upon me, and my wife is barren?" He said, "Thus will God do His pleasure
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
He said, 'My Lord, how can there be to me a boy when old age has reached me, and my wife is barren?' Said he, 'Thus God does what He pleaseth
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
he said my Sustainer in what way he is for me boy and indeed he reached me the old age and my woman barren he said thus Allah he does what he wills

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Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0How this was produced

Same form · 412 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form قَالَ appears 412 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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