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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 36:28:3

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
36:28
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:36:28:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
upon
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 36:28 — 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 →

After him, We sent down no hosts from heaven to his people; nor would We ever send any down
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
We sent not down against his people after him a host from heaven, nor do We ever send
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
But no army sent we down out of heaven after his death, nor were we then sending down our angels
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And we did send down upon his people no hosts from heaven, nor yet what we were wont to send down
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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