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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 27:20:6

لَآ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
لَآ Quranic text
Simple
لَآ
Without tashkeel
لا
Normalised (searchable)
لا

Position

Computed
Surah
27 · The Ant
Verse
27:20
Word in verse
6
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:27:20:6

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
not
Transliteration
lā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لا
Part of speech
Negative particle (NEG)
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. لَآstem · 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 27:20 — 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 →

Then he inspected the birds, and said, “Why do I not see the hoopoe? Or is he among the absentees
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And he sought among the birds and said: How is it that I see not the hoopoe, or is he among the absent
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And he reviewed the birds, and said, "How is it that I see not the lapwing? Is it one of the absent
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And he reviewed the birds, and said, 'How is it I see not the hoopoe? is he then amongst the absent
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 48 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لَآ appears 48 times in the corpus.

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Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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