The Heights 7:138Quranic text
وَجَٰوَزْنَابِبَنِىٓإِسْرَٰٓءِيلَٱلْبَحْرَفَأَتَوْا۟عَلَىٰقَوْمٍيَعْكُفُونَعَلَىٰٓأَصْنَامٍلَّهُمْقَالُوا۟يَٰمُوسَىٱجْعَللَّنَآإِلَٰهًاكَمَالَهُمْءَالِهَةٌقَالَإِنَّكُمْقَوْمٌتَجْهَلُونَ
Reference 7:138Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 7:138:6
عَلَىٰ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- عَلَىٰ Quranic text
- Simple
- عَلَىٰ
- Without tashkeel
- على
- Normalised (searchable)
- علي
Position
Computed- Surah
- 7 · The Heights
- Verse
- 7:138
- Word in verse
- 6
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:7:138:6
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- upon
- Transliteration
- ʿalā
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- عَلَى
- Part of speech
- Preposition (P)
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- عَلَىٰstem · P
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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 7:138 — 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 We delivered the Children of Israel across the sea. And when they came upon a people who were devoted to some statues of theirs, they said, “O Moses, make for us a god, as they have gods.” He said, “You are truly an ignorant people.”And We brought the Children of Israel across the sea, and they came unto a people who were given up to idols which they had. They said: O Moses! Make for us a god even as they have gods. He said: Lo! ye are a folk who know notAnd we brought the children of Israel across the sea, and they came to a people who gave themselves up to their idols. They said, "O Moses! make us a god, as they have gods." He said, "Verily, ye are an ignorant peopleAnd with the children of Israel we passed across the sea; and they came unto a people devoted to their idols, and said, 'O Moses! make for us a god as they have gods.' Said he, 'Verily, ye are ignorant peopleSame form · 347 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form عَلَىٰ appears 347 times in the corpus.
- عَلَىٰ2:5:2
- عَلَىٰ2:7:3
- عَلَىٰ2:20:22
- عَلَىٰ2:23:7
- عَلَىٰ2:61:6
- عَلَىٰ2:90:16
- عَلَىٰ2:90:23
- عَلَىٰ2:96:4
- عَلَىٰ2:97:8
- عَلَىٰ2:102:5
- عَلَىٰ2:106:16
- عَلَىٰ2:109:30
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