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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 52:26:4

قَبْلُ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
52:26
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:52:26:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
before
Transliteration
qablu
Lemma
قَبْل
Part of speech
Time adverb (T)
Features
case: ACC

Sub-word segments

  1. قَبْلُstem · T · ق ب ل

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 52:26 — 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 will say, “Before this, we were fearful for our families
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Saying: Lo! of old, when we were with our families, we were ever anxious
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
A time indeed there was," will they say, "when we were full of care as to the future lot of our families
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
and shall say, 'Verily, we were before amidst our families shrinking with terror
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 70 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form قَبْلُ appears 70 times in the corpus.

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Root ق ب ل · 294 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق ب ل occurs 294 times across 62 distinct forms.

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