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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 19:23:7

يَٰلَيْتَنِى

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
يَٰلَيْتَنِى Quranic text
Simple
يَٰلَيْتَنِى
Without tashkeel
يليتنى
Normalised (searchable)
يليتني

Position

Computed
Surah
19 · Mary
Verse
19:23
Word in verse
7
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:19:23:7

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
"O! I wish
Transliteration
yālaytanī
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لَيْت
Part of speech
Accusative particle (ACC)
Features
family: إِنّ

Sub-word segments

  1. يَٰprefix · VOC
  2. لَيْتَstem · ACC
  3. نِىsuffix · 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 19:23 — 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 →

The labor-pains came upon her, by the trunk of a palm-tree. She said, “I wish I had died before this, and been completely forgotten.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And the pangs of childbirth drove her unto the trunk of the palm-tree. She said: Oh, would that I had died ere this and had become a thing of naught, forgotten
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And the throes came upon her by the trunk of a palm. She said: "Oh, would that I had died ere this, and been a thing forgotten, forgotten quite
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And the labour pains came upon her at the trunk of a palm tree, and she said, 'O that I had died before this, and been forgotten out of mind
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 7 occurrences

Computed

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

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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