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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:12:5

وَلَٰكِن

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
2:12
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:12:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
walākin
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لٰكِن
Part of speech
AMD
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · SUP
  2. لَٰكِنstem · AMD

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 2:12 — 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 →

In fact, they are the troublemakers, but they are not aware
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Are not they indeed the mischief-makers? But they perceive not
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Is it not that they are themselves the authors of disorder? But they perceive it not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Are not they the evildoers? and yet they do not perceive
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 51 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَلَٰكِن appears 51 times in the corpus.

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