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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:59:4

لَمَّا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
18:59
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:59:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
when
Transliteration
lammā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لَمّا
Part of speech
Time adverb (T)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. لَمَّاstem · T

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 18:59 — 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 →

And these towns—We destroyed them when they committed injustices, and We set for their destruction an appointed time
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And (all) those townships! We destroyed them when they did wrong, and We appointed a fixed time for their destruction
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And those cities did we destroy when they became impious; and of their coming destruction we gave them warning
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
These cities, we destroyed them when they were unjust; and for their destruction we set an appointed time
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 25 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لَمَّا appears 25 times in the corpus.

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