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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:17:16

وَلَوْ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
12:17
Word in verse
16
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:17:16

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
even if
Transliteration
walaw
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لَو
Part of speech
COND
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. لَوْstem · COND

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 12:17 — 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 →

They said, “O father, we went off racing one another, and left Joseph by our belongings; and the wolf ate him. But you will not believe us, even though we are being truthful.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Saying: O our father! We went racing one with another, and left Joseph by our things, and the wolf devoured him, and thou believest not our saying even when we speak the truth
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They said, "O our Father! of a truth, we went to run races, and we left Joseph with our clothes, and the wolf devoured him: but thou wilt not believe us even though we speak the truth
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
said, 'O our father! verily, we went forth to race and left Joseph by our goods, and the wolf devoured him,- but thou wilt not believe us, truth tellers though we be
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 108 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَلَوْ appears 108 times in the corpus.

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