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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 51:28:4

قَالُوا۟

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
51:28
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:51:28:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
qālū
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

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 51:28 — 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 he harbored fear of them. They said, “Do not fear,” and they announced to him the good news of a knowledgeable boy
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Then he conceived a fear of them. They said: Fear not! and gave him tidings of (the birth of) a wise son
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And he conceived a fear of them. They said to him, "Fear not;" and announced to him a wise son
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And he felt a secret fear of them: said they, Fear not.' And they gave him glad tidings of a knowing boy
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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