وَقَالُوا۟ — Quran 45:24:1 · root ق و ل

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): وَقَالُوا۟ Quranic text
Simple: وَقَالُوا
Without tashkeel: وقالوا
Normalised (searchable): وقالوا

Position

Computed

Surah: 45 · Crouching
Verse: 45:24
Word in verse: 1
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:45:24:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: And they say,
Transliteration: waqālū

Root: ق و لq-w-l
Lemma: قالَ
Part of speech: Verb (V)
Features: tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

وَprefix · CONJ
قَالُstem · V · ق و ل
وا۟suffix · PRON

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

Crouching 45:24Quranic text

وَقَالُوا۟مَا هِىَ إِلَّا حَيَاتُنَا ٱلدُّنْيَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحْيَا وَمَا يُهْلِكُنَآ إِلَّا ٱلدَّهْرُ وَمَا لَهُم بِذَٰلِكَ مِنْ عِلْمٍ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 45:24 — 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 →

And they say, “There is nothing but this our present life; we die and we live, and nothing destroys us except time.” But they have no knowledge of that; they are only guessing

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

And they say: There is naught but our life of the world; we die and we live, and naught destroyeth us save time; when they have no knowledge whatsoever of (all) that; they do but guess

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And they say, "There is only this our present life: we die and we live, and nought but time destroyeth us." But in this they have no knowledge: it is merely their own conceit

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

They say, 'It is only our life in this world, we die and we live, and naught destroys us but time!' But they have no knowledge of this; they do but suspect

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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