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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 5:22:1

قَالُوا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
قَالُوا۟ Quranic text
Simple
قَالُوا
Without tashkeel
قالوا
Normalised (searchable)
قالوا

Position

Computed
Surah
5 · The Table
Verse
5:22
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:5:22:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
They said,
Transliteration
qālū
Root
ق و لq-w-l
Lemma
قالَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. قَالُstem · V · ق و ل
  2. وا۟suffix · PRON

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 5:22 — 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 said, “O Moses, there are tyrannical people in it; we will not enter it until they leave it. If they leave it, we will be entering.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
They said: O Moses! Lo! a giant people (dwell) therein and lo! we go not in till they go forth from thence. When they go forth from thence, then we will enter (not till then)
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They said, "O Moses! Therein are men of might. And verily, we can by no means enter it till they be gone forth. But if they go forth from it, then verily will we enter in
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They said, ' O Moses! verily, therein is a people, giants; and we will surely not enter therein until they go out from thence; but if they go out then we will enter in
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 173 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form قَالُوا۟ appears 173 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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