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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 25:27:7

يَٰلَيْتَنِى

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
يَٰلَيْتَنِى Quranic text
Simple
يَٰلَيْتَنِى
Without tashkeel
يليتنى
Normalised (searchable)
يليتني

Position

Computed
Surah
25 · The Criterion
Verse
25:27
Word in verse
7
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:25:27:7

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
"O I wish!
Transliteration
yālaytanī
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لَيْت
Part of speech
Accusative particle (ACC)
Features
family: إِنّ

Sub-word segments

  1. يَٰprefix · VOC
  2. لَيْتَstem · ACC
  3. نِىsuffix · 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 25:27 — 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 →

On that Day, the wrongdoer will bite his hands, and say, “If only I had followed the way with the Messenger
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
On the day when the wrong-doer gnaweth his hands, he will say: Ah, would that I had chosen a way together with the messenger (of Allah)
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And on that day shall the wicked one bite his hands, and say, "Oh! would that I had taken the same path with the Apostle
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And the day when the unjust shall bite his hands and say, 'O, would that I had taken a way with the Apostle
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 7 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form يَٰلَيْتَنِى appears 7 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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