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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 9:81:15

وَقَالُوا۟

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
9 · The Repentance
Verse
9:81
Word in verse
15
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:9:81:15

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
and they said,
Transliteration
waqālū
Root
ق و لq-w-l
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 9:81 — 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 →

Those who stayed behind rejoiced at their staying behind the Messenger of God. And they hated to strive with their wealth and their lives in God’s way. And they said, “Do not venture out in the heat.” Say, “The Fire of Hell is much hotter, if they only understood.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Those who were left behind rejoiced at sitting still behind the messenger of Allah, and were averse to striving with their wealth and their lives in Allah's way. And they said: Go not forth in the heat! Say: The fire of hell is more intense of heat, if they but understood
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They who were left at home were delighted to stay behind God's Apostle, and were averse from contending with their riches and their persons for the cause of God, and said, "March not out in the heat." SAY: A fiercer heat will be the fire of Hell." Would that they understood this
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Those who were left behind rejoiced in staying behind the Apostle of God, and were averse from fighting strenuously with their wealth and their persons in God's way, and said, 'March not forth in the heat.' Say, 'The fire of hell is hotter still, if ye could but discern
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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