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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 8:48:8

غَالِبَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
8 · The Spoils of War
Verse
8:48
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:8:48:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(can) overcome
Transliteration
ghāliba
Root
غ ل بgh-l-b
Lemma
غالِب
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCgender: Mderivation: ACT_PCPLverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. غَالِبَstem · N · غ ل ب

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1
The Spoils of War 8:48Quranic text

وَإِذْزَيَّنَلَهُمُٱلشَّيْطَٰنُأَعْمَٰلَهُمْوَقَالَلَاغَالِبَلَكُمُٱلْيَوْمَمِنَٱلنَّاسِوَإِنِّىجَارٌلَّكُمْفَلَمَّاتَرَآءَتِٱلْفِئَتَانِنَكَصَعَلَىٰعَقِبَيْهِوَقَالَإِنِّىبَرِىٓءٌمِّنكُمْإِنِّىٓأَرَىٰمَالَاتَرَوْنَإِنِّىٓأَخَافُٱللَّهَوَٱللَّهُشَدِيدُٱلْعِقَابِ

Reference 8:48

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 8:48 — 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 →

Satan made their deeds appear good to them, and said, “You cannot be defeated by any people today, and I am at your side.” But when the two armies came in sight of one another, he turned on his heels, and said, “I am innocent of you; I see what you do not see; I fear God; God is severe in punishment.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And when Satan made their deeds seem fair to them and said: No-one of mankind can conquer you this day, for I am your protector. But when the armies came in sight of one another, he took flight, saying: Lo! I am guiltless of you. Lo! I see that which ye see not. Lo! I fear Allah. And Allah is severe in punishment
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
When Satan prepared their works for them, and said, "No man shall conquer you this day; and verily I will be near to help you:" But when the two armies came in sight, he turned on his heel and said, "Ay, I am clear of you: ay, I see what ye see not: ay, I fear God; for God is severe in punishing
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And when Satan made their works appear seemly to them, and said, 'There is none amongst mankind to conquer you today, for, verily, I am your neighbour!' and when the two troops came in sight of each other, he turned upon his heels and said, 'Verily, I am clear of you! verily, I see what you see not! verily, I fear God, for God is keen to punish
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 2 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form غَالِبَ appears 2 times in the corpus.

Root غ ل ب · 31 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root غ ل ب occurs 31 times across 20 distinct forms.

See the full root page for غ ل ب →

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