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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 15:42:3

لَيْسَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
15:42
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:15:42:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
not
Transliteration
laysa
Lemma
لَيْسَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. لَيْسَstem · V · ل ي س

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 15:42 — 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 →

“Over My servants you have no authority, except for the sinners who follow you.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Lo! as for My slaves, thou hast no power over any of them save such of the froward as follow thee
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
For over none of my servants shalt thou have power, save those beguiled ones who shall follow thee
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Verily, my servants thou hast no authority over, save over those who follow thee of such as are seduced
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 38 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لَيْسَ appears 38 times in the corpus.

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Root ل ي س · 89 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ل ي س occurs 89 times across 18 distinct forms.

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