وَبِٱلَّيْلِ

Uthmani (as written)

وَبِٱلَّيْلِ Quranic text

Simple

وَبِالَّيْلِ

Without tashkeel

وبٱليل

Normalised (searchable)

وباليل

Surah

37 · Those drawn up in Ranks

Verse

37:138

Word in verse

1

Token id

quran:tanzil-uthmani:37:138:1

Gloss

And at night.

Transliteration

wabi-al-layli

Root

ل ي لl-y-l

Lemma

لَيْل

Part of speech

Noun (N)

Features

case: GENgender: M

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.

These translations render verse 37:138 — 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 →

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

The root ل ي ل occurs 92 times across 17 distinct forms.

• لَيْلَةً2:51:5
• ٱلَّيْلِ2:164:7
• لَيْلَةَ2:187:3
• ٱلَّيْلِ2:187:47
• بِٱلَّيْلِ2:274:4
• ٱلَّيْلَ3:27:2
• ٱلَّيْلِ3:27:8
• ٱلَّيْلِ3:113:12
• ٱلَّيْلِ3:190:7
• ٱلَّيْلِ6:13:5
• بِٱلَّيْلِ6:60:4
• ٱلَّيْلُ6:76:4

No published investigation cites this word yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.