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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 43:31:1

وَقَالُوا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
وَقَالُوا۟ Quranic text
Simple
وَقَالُوا
Without tashkeel
وقالوا
Normalised (searchable)
وقالوا

Position

Computed
Verse
43:31
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:43:31:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
waqālū
Lemma
قالَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. قَالُstem · V · ق و ل
  3. وا۟suffix · PRON

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 43:31 — 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 →

They also said, “If only this Quran was sent down to a man of importance from the two cities.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And they say: If only this Qur'an had been revealed to some great man of the two towns
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And they say, "Had but this Koran been sent down to some great one of the two cities
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And they say, 'Unless this Qur'an were sent down to a man great in the two cities
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 49 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَقَالُوا۟ appears 49 times in the corpus.

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Root ق و ل · 1722 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق و ل occurs 1722 times across 146 distinct forms.

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