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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 6:8:1

وَقَالُوا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
وَقَالُوا۟ Quranic text
Simple
وَقَالُوا
Without tashkeel
وقالوا
Normalised (searchable)
وقالوا

Position

Computed
Verse
6:8
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:6:8:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
waqālū
Lemma
قالَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. قَالُstem · V · ق و ل
  3. 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 6:8 — 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 they say, “Why was an angel not sent down to him.” Had We sent down an angel, the matter would have been settled, and they would not have been reprieved
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
They say: Why hath not an angel been sent down unto him? If We sent down an angel, then the matter would be judged; no further time would be allowed them (for reflection)
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They say, too, "Unless an angel be sent down to him. . . ." But if we had sent down an angel, their judgment would have come on them at once, and they would have had no respite
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They say, 'Why has not an angel been sent down to him?' but if we had sent down an angel, the affair would have been decided, and then they would have had no respite
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 49 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَقَالُوا۟ appears 49 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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