The Light 24:16Quranic text
وَلَوْلَآإِذْسَمِعْتُمُوهُقُلْتُممَّايَكُونُلَنَآأَننَّتَكَلَّمَبِهَٰذَاسُبْحَٰنَكَهَٰذَابُهْتَٰنٌعَظِيمٌ
Reference 24:16Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 24:16:7
لَنَآ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- لَنَآ Quranic text
- Simple
- لَنَآ
- Without tashkeel
- لنا
- Normalised (searchable)
- لنا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 24 · The Light
- Verse
- 24:16
- Word in verse
- 7
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:24:16:7
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- for us
- Transliteration
- lanā
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- —
- Part of speech
- Pronoun (PRON)
- Features
- person: 1number: plural
Sub-word segments
- لَprefix · P
- نَآstem · 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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 24:16 — 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 you heard it, you should have said, “It is not for us to repeat this. By Your glory, this is a serious slander.”Wherefor, when ye heard it, said ye not: It is not for us to speak of this. Glory be to Thee (O Allah)! This is awful calumnyAnd did ye say when ye heard it, "It is not for us to talk of this affair! O God! By thy Glory, this is a gross calumnyAnd why did ye not say when ye heard it, 'It is not for us to speak of this? Celebrated be His praises, this is a mighty calumnySame form · 14 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form لَنَآ appears 14 times in the corpus.
- لَنَآ2:32:5
- لَنَآ2:246:33
- لَنَآ5:109:11
- لَنَآ6:148:29
- لَنَآ7:53:23
- لَنَآ7:89:17
- لَنَآ12:38:9
- لَنَآ14:11:19
- لَنَآ14:12:2
- لَنَآ25:18:6
- لَنَآ28:55:7
- لَنَآ42:15:22
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