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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:42:10

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
3:42
Word in verse
10
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:42:10

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
over
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 3:42 — 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 →

The angels said, “O Mary, God has chosen you, and has purified you. He has chosen you over all the women of the world
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And when the angels said: O Mary! Lo! Allah hath chosen thee and made thee pure, and hath preferred thee above (all) the women of creation
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And remember when the angels said, "O Mary! verily hath God chosen thee, and purified thee, and chosen thee above the women of the worlds
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And when the angels said, 'O Mary! verily, God has chosen thee, and has purified thee, and has chosen thee above the women of the world
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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