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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 23:85:4

أَفَلَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَفَلَا Quranic text
Simple
أَفَلَا
Without tashkeel
أفلا
Normalised (searchable)
افلا

Position

Computed
Verse
23:85
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:23:85:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
afalā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لا
Part of speech
Negative particle (NEG)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. أَprefix · INTG
  2. فَprefix · SUP
  3. 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 23:85 — 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 will say, “To God.” Say, “Will you not reflect?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
They will say: Unto Allah. Say: Will ye not then remember
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They will answer, "God's." SAY: Will ye not, then reflect
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They will say, 'God's.' Say, 'Do ye not then mind
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 45 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَفَلَا appears 45 times in the corpus.

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