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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:123:16

وَلَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
2:123
Word in verse
16
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:123:16

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. 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 2:123 — 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 beware of a Day when no soul will avail another soul in any way, and no ransom will be accepted from it, and no intercession will benefit it, and they will not be helped
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And guard (yourselves) against a day when no soul will in aught avail another, nor will compensation be accepted from it, nor will intercession be of use to it; nor will they be helped
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And dread the day when not in aught shall soul satisfy for soul, nor shall any ransom be taken from it, nor shall any intercession avail, and they shall not be helped
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And fear the day when no soul shall pay a recompense for a soul, nor shall an equivalent be received therefrom, nor any intercession avail; and they shall not be helped
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 605 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَلَا appears 605 times in the corpus.

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