The Ant 27:46Quranic text
قَالَيَٰقَوْمِلِمَتَسْتَعْجِلُونَبِٱلسَّيِّئَةِقَبْلَٱلْحَسَنَةِلَوْلَاتَسْتَغْفِرُونَٱللَّهَلَعَلَّكُمْتُرْحَمُونَ
Reference 27:46Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 27:46:3
لِمَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- لِمَ Quranic text
- Simple
- لِمَ
- Without tashkeel
- لم
- Normalised (searchable)
- لم
Position
Computed- Surah
- 27 · The Ant
- Verse
- 27:46
- Word in verse
- 3
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:27:46:3
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- Why
- Transliteration
- lima
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- ما
- Part of speech
- Interrogative (INTG)
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- لِprefix · P
- مَstem · INTG
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 27:46 — 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 →
He said, “O my people, why are you quick to do evil rather than good? If only you would seek God’s forgiveness, so that you may be shown mercy.”He said: O my people! Why will ye hasten on the evil rather than the good? Why will ye not ask pardon of Allah, that ye may receive mercyHe said, "O my people, why, if ye ask not pardon of God that ye may find mercy, hasten ye on evil rather than goodSaid he, 'O my people! why do ye hasten on evil acts before good deeds? why do ye not ask forgiveness of God? haply ye may obtain mercySame form · 15 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form لِمَ appears 15 times in the corpus.
- لِمَ3:65:3
- لِمَ3:70:3
- لِمَ3:71:3
- لِمَ3:98:4
- لِمَ3:99:4
- لِمَ4:77:29
- لِمَ7:164:5
- لِمَ9:43:4
- لِمَ19:42:5
- لِمَ20:125:3
- لِمَ41:21:3
- لِمَ61:2:4
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