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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:39:11

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
21:39
Word in verse
11
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:39:11

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 21:39 — 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 →

If those who disbelieve only knew, when they cannot keep the fire off their faces and off their backs, and they will not be helped
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
If those who disbelieved but knew the time when they will not be able to drive off the fire from their faces and from their backs, and they will not be helped
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Did the infidels but know the time when they shall not be able to keep the fire of hell from their faces or from their backs, neither shall they be helped
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Did those who misbelieve but know when the fire shall not be warded off from their faces nor from their backs, 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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