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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 28:48:13

أَوَلَمْ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَوَلَمْ Quranic text
Simple
أَوَلَمْ
Without tashkeel
أولم
Normalised (searchable)
اولم

Position

Computed
Verse
28:48
Word in verse
13
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:28:48:13

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. أَprefix · INTG
  2. وَprefix · SUP
  3. لَمْstem · 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 28:48 — 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 →

But when the truth came to them from Us, they said, “If only he was given the like of what was given to Moses.” Did they not disbelieve in what was given to Moses in the past? They said, “Two works of magic backing one another.” And they said, “We are disbelieving in both.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
But when there came unto them the Truth from Our presence, they said: Why is he not given the like of what was given unto Moses? Did they not disbelieve in that which was given unto Moses of old? They say: Two magics that support each other; and they say: Lo! in both we are disbelievers
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Yet when the truth came to them from our very presence, they said, "Unless the like powers be given to him that were given to Moses. . . ." But did they not disbelieve in what of old was given to Moses? They said, "Two works of sorcery have helped each other;" and they said, "We disbelieve them both
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And when the truth comes to them from us they say, 'We are given the like of what Moses was given.' Did they not disbelieve in what Moses was given before?- they say, 'Two works of sorcery back up each other;' and they say, 'Verily, we do disbelieve in all
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 35 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَوَلَمْ appears 35 times in the corpus.

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