وَيَقُولُونَلَوْلَآأُنزِلَعَلَيْهِءَايَةٌمِّنرَّبِّهِۦفَقُلْإِنَّمَاٱلْغَيْبُلِلَّهِفَٱنتَظِرُوٓا۟إِنِّىمَعَكُممِّنَٱلْمُنتَظِرِينَ
Reference 10:20Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 10:20:2
لَوْلَآ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- لَوْلَآ Quranic text
- Simple
- لَوْلَآ
- Without tashkeel
- لولا
- Normalised (searchable)
- لولا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 10 · Jonas
- Verse
- 10:20
- Word in verse
- 2
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:10:20:2
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- "Why not
- Transliteration
- lawlā
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- لَوْلا
- Part of speech
- EXH
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- لَوْلَآstem · EXH
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 1.1Jonas 10:20Quranic text
How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 10:20 — 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 →
And they say, “If only a miracle was sent down to him from his Lord.” Say, “The realm of the unseen belongs to God; so wait, I am waiting with you.”And they will say: If only a portent were sent down upon him from his Lord! Then say, (O Muhammad): The Unseen belongeth to Allah. So wait! Lo! I am waiting with youThey say: "Unless a sign be sent down to him from his Lord. . . ." But SAY: The hidden is only with God: wait therefore: I truly will be with you among those who waitThey say, 'Why is not a sign sent down upon him from his Lord?' Say, 'The unseen is only God's; but wait ye for a while, verily, I with you am one of those who waitSame form · 20 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form لَوْلَآ appears 20 times in the corpus.
- لَوْلَآ4:77:33
- لَوْلَآ6:8:2
- لَوْلَآ7:43:20
- لَوْلَآ11:12:12
- لَوْلَآ12:24:6
- لَوْلَآ12:94:10
- لَوْلَآ13:7:4
- لَوْلَآ13:27:4
- لَوْلَآ20:134:9
- لَوْلَآ25:7:10
- لَوْلَآ25:21:6
- لَوْلَآ25:42:6
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