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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 10:16:8

وَلَآ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
10:16
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:10:16:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
and not
Transliteration
walā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لا
Part of speech
Negative particle (NEG)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. لَآstem · NEG

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 10:16 — 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 →

Say, “Had God willed, I would not have recited it to you, and He would not have made it known to you. I have lived among you for a lifetime before it. Do you not understand?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Say: If Allah had so willed I should not have recited it to you nor would He have made it known to you. I dwelt among you a whole lifetime before it (came to me). Have ye then no sense
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
SAY: Had God so pleased, I had not recited it to you, neither had I taught it to you. Already have I dwelt among you for years, ere it was revealed to me. Understand ye not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Say, 'Had God pleased, I should not have recited it to you, nor taught you therewith. I have tarried a lifetime amongst you before it;- have ye not then any sense
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 53 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَلَآ appears 53 times in the corpus.

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Community

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