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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:118:3

لَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
2:118
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:118:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
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 · 5 editions

These translations render verse 2:118 — 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 →

Those who do not know say, “If only God would speak to us, or a sign would come to us.” Thus said those who were before them. Their hearts are alike. We have made the signs clear for people who are certain
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And those who have no knowledge say: Why doth not Allah speak unto us, or some sign come unto us? Even thus, as they now speak, spake those (who were) before them. Their hearts are all alike. We have made clear the revelations for people who are sure
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And they who have no knowledge say, "Unless God speak to us, or thou shew us a sign . . . !" So, with like words, said those who were before them: their hearts are alike: Clear signs have we already shewn for those who have firm faith
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And those who do not know (the Scriptures) say, 'Unless God speak to us, or there comes a sign.' So spake those before them like unto their speech. Their hearts are all alike. We have made manifest the signs unto a people that are sure
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
he said those whom not they know why not he speaks to us Allah or he comes to us sign thus he said those whom from their before like their word he looked alike their hearts already We made clear the signs for people they be certain

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.

Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0How this was produced

Same form · 616 occurrences

Computed

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

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