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Ayah Lemma

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A lemma is the dictionary form of a word — what you would look up in a lexicon. Every conjugated verb and inflected noun in the Quran maps back to one lemma, which makes it the right unit for counting how often a word is used.

This resource gives the lemmas of an ayah at a time: for each ayah, the dictionary form of each of its words in order. If you need the lemma of one specific word instead, use the Word lemma resource.

Example

Ayah 73:4 has these lemmas:

73:4
أَو زَادَ عَلَىٰ رَتَّلْ قُرْءَان تَرْتِيل

Export format

QUL exports this data as a SQLite database with one row per ayah.

Column Type What it holds
ayah_key TEXT The ayah, in surah:ayah form — for example 73:4.
text TEXT The lemma of each word in the ayah, in word order, separated by spaces.
The lemmas are listed in word order but are not individually numbered. To line them up with the words of the ayah you also need the word by word Quran script, available on the Quran Scripts page.