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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:53:8

إِلَّا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
إِلَّا Quranic text
Simple
إِلَّا
Without tashkeel
إلا
Normalised (searchable)
الا

Position

Computed
Verse
12:53
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:53:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
unless
Transliteration
illā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
إِلّا
Part of speech
RES
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. إِلَّاstem · RES

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 12:53 — 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 →

“Yet I do not claim to be innocent. The soul commands evil, except those on whom my Lord has mercy. Truly my Lord is Forgiving and Merciful.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
I do not exculpate myself. Lo! the (human) soul enjoineth unto evil, save that whereon my Lord hath mercy. Lo! my Lord is Forgiving, Merciful
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Yet I hold not myself clear, for the heart is prone to evil, save theirs on whom my Lord hath mercy; for gracious is my Lord, Merciful
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Yet I do not clear myself, for the soul is very urgent to evil, save what my Lord has had mercy on; verily, my Lord is forgiving and merciful
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 562 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form إِلَّا appears 562 times in the corpus.

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