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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 50:5:1

بَلْ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
بَلْ Quranic text
Simple
بَلْ
Without tashkeel
بل
Normalised (searchable)
بل

Position

Computed
Verse
50:5
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:50:5:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
Nay,
Transliteration
bal
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
بَل
Part of speech
RET
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. بَلْstem · RET

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 50:5 — 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 →

But they denied the truth when it has come to them, so they are in a confused state
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Nay, but they have denied the truth when it came unto them, therefor they are now in troubled case
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
But they have treated the truth which hath come to them as falsehood; perplexed therefore is their state
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Nay, they call the truth a lie when it comes to them, and they are in a confused affair
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 97 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form بَلْ appears 97 times in the corpus.

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