The Cow 2:68Quranic text
قَالُوا۟ٱدْعُلَنَارَبَّكَيُبَيِّنلَّنَامَاهِىَقَالَإِنَّهُۥيَقُولُإِنَّهَابَقَرَةٌلَّافَارِضٌوَلَابِكْرٌعَوَانٌۢبَيْنَذَٰلِكَفَٱفْعَلُوا۟مَاتُؤْمَرُونَ
Reference 2:68Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:68:16
وَلَا
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- وَلَا Quranic text
- Simple
- وَلَا
- Without tashkeel
- ولا
- Normalised (searchable)
- ولا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 2 · The Cow
- Verse
- 2:68
- Word in verse
- 16
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:68:16
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
- وَprefix · CONJ
- 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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 2:68 — 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 →
They said, “Call upon your Lord to show us which one.” He said, “He says she is a heifer, neither too old, nor too young, but in between. So do what you are commanded.”They said: Pray for us unto thy Lord that He make clear to us what (cow) she is. (Moses) answered: Lo! He saith, Verily she is a cow neither with calf nor immature; (she is) between the two conditions; so do that which ye are commandedThey said, "Call on thy Lord for us that He would make plain to us what she is." He said, "God saith, 'She is a cow neither old nor young, but of the middle age between the two:' do therefore what ye are biddenThey said, 'Then pray thy Lord for us to show us what she is to be.' He answered, 'He saith it is a cow, nor old, nor young, of middle age between the two; so do as ye are bidSame form · 605 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form وَلَا appears 605 times in the corpus.
- وَلَا1:7:8
- وَلَا2:35:12
- وَلَا2:38:15
- وَلَا2:41:7
- وَلَا2:41:12
- وَلَا2:42:1
- وَلَا2:48:9
- وَلَا2:48:13
- وَلَا2:48:17
- وَلَا2:60:24
- وَلَا2:62:19
- وَلَا2:62:22
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