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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:14:2

يَٰوَيْلَنَآ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
21 · The Prophets
Verse
21:14
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:14:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
"O woe to us!
Transliteration
yāwaylanā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
وَيْل
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACC

Sub-word segments

  1. يَٰprefix · VOC
  2. وَيْلَstem · N
  3. نَآsuffix · PRON

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 21:14 — 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, “Woe to us; we were unfair.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
They cried: Alas for us! we were wrong-doers
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They said, "Oh, woe to us! Verily we have been evil doers
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said they, 'O woe is us! verily, we were wrong-doers
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
they said woe to us indeed we were wrongdoers

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 · 3 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form يَٰوَيْلَنَآ appears 3 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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