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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:8:4

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
21:8
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:8:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
not
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 21:8 — 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 →

We did not make them mere bodies that ate no food, nor were they immortal
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
We gave them not bodies that would not eat food, nor were they immortals
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
We gave them not bodies which could dispense with food: and they were not to live for ever
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Nor did we make them bodies not to eat food, nor were they immortal
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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