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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:38:1

لَّٰكِنَّا۠

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
لَّٰكِنَّا۠ Quranic text
Simple
لَّٰكِنَّا
Without tashkeel
لكنا
Normalised (searchable)
لكنا

Position

Computed
Surah
18 · The Cave
Verse
18:38
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:38:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
But as for me,
Transliteration
lākinnā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لٰكِنّ
Part of speech
Accusative particle (ACC)
Features
family: إِنّ

Sub-word segments

  1. لَّٰكِنَّstem · ACC
  2. ا۠suffix · PRON

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 18:38 — 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 →

But as for me, He is God, my Lord, and I never associate with my Lord anyone
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
But He is Allah, my Lord, and I ascribe unto my Lord no partner
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
But God is my Lord; and no other being will I associate with my Lord
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
but, God, He is my Lord; nor will I associate any one with my Lord
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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