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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 7:81:8

بَلْ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
7:81
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:7:81:8

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. بَلْstem · 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 7:81 — 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 →

“You lust after men rather than women. You are an excessive people.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Lo! ye come with lust unto men instead of women. Nay, but ye are wanton folk
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Come ye to men, instead of women, lustfully? Ye are indeed a people given up to excess
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
verily, ye approach men with lust rather than women - nay, ye are a people who exceed
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 97 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form بَلْ appears 97 times in the corpus.

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