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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 9:65:7

وَنَلْعَبُ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
9:65
Word in verse
7
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:9:65:7

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
wanalʿabu
Lemma
يَلْعَبْ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: IMPFmood: INDperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. نَلْعَبُstem · V · ل ع ب

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 9:65 — 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 →

If you ask them, they will say, “We were just joking and playing.” Say, “Were you making jokes about God, His revelations, and His Messenger?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And if thou ask them (O Muhammad) they will say: We did but talk and jest. Say: Was it at Allah and His revelations and His messenger that ye did scoff
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And if thou question them, they will surely say, "We were only discoursing and jesting." SAY: What! do ye scoff at God, and His signs, and His Apostle
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
But if thou shouldst ask them, they will say, 'We did but discuss and jest;' say, 'Was it at God and His signs, and His Apostle, that ye mocked
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root ل ع ب · 20 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ل ع ب occurs 20 times across 10 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ل ع ب

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