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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:36:7

إِلَّا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
إِلَّا Quranic text
Simple
إِلَّا
Without tashkeel
إلا
Normalised (searchable)
الا

Position

Computed
Verse
21:36
Word in verse
7
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:36:7

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
except
Transliteration
illā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
إِلّا
Part of speech
RES
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. إِلَّاstem · RES

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 21:36 — 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 →

When those who disbelieve see you, they treat you only with ridicule: “Is this the one who mentions your gods?” And they reject the mention of the Merciful
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And when those who disbelieve behold thee, they but choose thee out for mockery, (saying): Is this he who maketh mention of your gods? And they would deny all mention of the Beneficent
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And when the infidels see thee they receive thee only with scoffs: - "What! is this he who maketh such mention of your gods?" Yet when mention is made to them of the God of Mercy, they believe not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And when those who misbelieve see thee, they only take thee for a jest, 'Is this he who mentions your gods?' Yet they at the mention of the Merciful do disbelieve
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 562 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form إِلَّا appears 562 times in the corpus.

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