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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 37:153:3

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
37:153
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:37:153:3

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. 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 37:153 — 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 →

So He preferred girls over boys
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
(And again of their falsehood): He hath preferred daughters to sons
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Would he have preferred daughters to sons
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Has he preferred daughters to sons
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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Community

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