The Family of Imraan 3:40Quranic text
قَالَرَبِّأَنَّىٰيَكُونُلِىغُلَٰمٌوَقَدْبَلَغَنِىَٱلْكِبَرُوَٱمْرَأَتِىعَاقِرٌقَالَكَذَٰلِكَٱللَّهُيَفْعَلُمَايَشَآءُ
Reference 3:40Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:40:6
غُلَٰمٌ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- غُلَٰمٌ Quranic text
- Simple
- غُلَٰمٌ
- Without tashkeel
- غلم
- Normalised (searchable)
- غلم
Position
Computed- Verse
- 3:40
- Word in verse
- 6
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:40:6
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- a son,
- Transliteration
- ghulāmun
- Root
- غ ل مgh-l-m
- Lemma
- غُلام
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: NOMstate: indefinitegender: M
Sub-word segments
- غُلَٰمٌstem · N · غ ل م
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 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.”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 willHe 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 pleasureHe 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 pleasethSame form · 4 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form غُلَٰمٌ appears 4 times in the corpus.
Root غ ل م · 13 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root غ ل م occurs 13 times across 6 distinct forms.
- غُلَٰمٌ12:19:10
- بِغُلَٰمٍ15:53:6
- غُلَٰمًا18:74:5
- ٱلْغُلَٰمُ18:80:2
- لِغُلَٰمَيْنِ18:82:4
- بِغُلَٰمٍ19:7:4
- غُلَٰمٌ19:8:6
- غُلَٰمًا19:19:8
- غُلَٰمٌ19:20:5
- بِغُلَٰمٍ37:101:2
- بِغُلَٰمٍ51:28:8
- غِلْمَانٌ52:24:3
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