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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 15:8:4

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
15:8
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:15:8:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
except
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 15:8 — 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 →

We do not send the angels down except with reason, and they will not be held back
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
We send not down the angels save with the Fact, and in that case (the disbelievers) would not be tolerated
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
We will not send down the angels without due cause. The Infidels would not in that case have been respited
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
We sent not down the angels save by right nor even then would these be respited
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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Community

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