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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 52:33:4

بَل

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
52:33
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:52:33:4

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. بَلstem · 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 52:33 — 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 →

Or do they say, “He made it up”? Rather, they do not believe
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Or say they: He hath invented it? Nay, but they will not believe
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Will they say, "He hath forged it (the Koran) himself?" Nay, rather it is that they believed not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Or will they say, 'He has invented it?' - nay, but they do not believe
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 16 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form بَل appears 16 times in the corpus.

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