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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 100:9:1

أَفَلَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَفَلَا Quranic text
Simple
أَفَلَا
Without tashkeel
أفلا
Normalised (searchable)
افلا

Position

Computed
Verse
100:9
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:100:9:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
afalā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لا
Part of speech
Negative particle (NEG)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. أَprefix · INTG
  2. فَprefix · SUP
  3. لَاstem · 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 100:9 — 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 →

Does he not know? When the contents of the graves are scattered around
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Knoweth he not that, when the contents of the graves are poured forth
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Ah! knoweth he not, that when that which is in the graves shall be laid bare
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Does he not know when the tombs are exposed
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 45 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَفَلَا appears 45 times in the corpus.

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Community

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