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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:16:5

لَّا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
20:16
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:16:5

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. لَّاstem · 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 20:16 — 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 do not let him who denies it and follows his desire turn you away from it, lest you fall
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Therefor, let not him turn thee aside from (the thought of) it who believeth not therein but followeth his own desire, lest thou perish
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Nor let him who believeth not therein and followeth his lust, turn thee aside from this truth, and thou perish
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Let not then him who believes not therein and follows his lusts ever turn thee away therefrom, and thou be ruined
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 133 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لَّا appears 133 times in the corpus.

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