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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:39:1

وَلَوْلَآ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
18 · The Cave
Verse
18:39
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:39:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
And why (did you) not,
Transliteration
walawlā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لَوْلا
Part of speech
EXH
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. لَوْلَآstem · EXH

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 18:39 — 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 →

When you entered your garden, why did you not say, “As God wills; there is no power except through God”? Although you see me inferior to you in wealth and children
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
If only, when thou enteredst thy garden, thou hadst said: That which Allah willeth (will come to pass)! There is no strength save in Allah! Though thou seest me as less than thee in wealth and children
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And why didst thou not say when thou enteredst thy garden, 'What God willeth! There is no power but in God.' Though thou seest that I have less than thou of wealth and children
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Why couldst thou not have said, when thou didst go into thy garden, "What God pleases! there is no power save in God," - to look at, I am less than thee in wealth and children
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 7 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَلَوْلَآ appears 7 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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