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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:72:9

عَلَى

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
3:72
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:72:9

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. عَلَىstem · 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 3:72 — 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 →

Some of the People of the Book say, “Believe in what was revealed to the believers at the beginning of the day, and reject it at its end, so that they may return.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And a party of the People of the Scripture say: Believe in that which hath been revealed unto those who believe at the opening of the day, and disbelieve at the end thereof, in order that they may return
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Others of the people of the Book say: "Believe in what hath been sent down to the believers, at daybreak, and deny it at its close" - Thus do they go back
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
A sect of the people of the Book say, 'Believe in what was revealed to those who believed at the first appearance of the day, and disbelieve it at the end thereof,' - that (others) may perchance go back (from their faith)
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 242 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form عَلَى appears 242 times in the corpus.

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