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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:100:9

لَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
2 · The Cow
Verse
2:100
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:100:9

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(do) not
Transliteration
lā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لا
Part of speech
Negative particle (NEG)
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. لَاstem · NEG

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 2:100 — 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 →

Is it not that whenever they make a covenant, some of them toss it aside? In fact, most of them do not believe
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Is it ever so that when they make a covenant a party of them set it aside? The truth is, most of them believe not
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Oft as they have formed an engagement with thee, will some of them set it aside? But most of them believe not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Or every time they make a covenant, will a part of them repudiate it? Nay, most of them do not believe
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 616 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لَا appears 616 times in the corpus.

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Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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