The Spider 29:50Quranic text
وَقَالُوا۟لَوْلَآأُنزِلَعَلَيْهِءَايَٰتٌمِّنرَّبِّهِۦقُلْإِنَّمَاٱلْـَٔايَٰتُعِندَٱللَّهِوَإِنَّمَآأَنَا۠نَذِيرٌمُّبِينٌ
Reference 29:50Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 29:50:2
لَوْلَآ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- لَوْلَآ Quranic text
- Simple
- لَوْلَآ
- Without tashkeel
- لولا
- Normalised (searchable)
- لولا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 29 · The Spider
- Verse
- 29:50
- Word in verse
- 2
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:29:50:2
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- "Why not
- Transliteration
- lawlā
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- لَوْلا
- Part of speech
- EXH
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- لَوْلَآstem · EXH
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 29:50 — 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 →
And they said, “If only a miracle from his Lord was sent down to him.” Say, “Miracles are only with God, and I am only a clear warner.”And they say: Why are not portents sent down upon him from his Lord? Say: Portents are with Allah only, and I am but a plain warnerAnd they say, "Unless a sign be sent down to him from his Lord. . . ." SAY: Signs are in the power of God alone. I am only a plain spoken warnerThey say, 'Unless there be sent down upon him signs from his Lord -;' say, 'Verily, signs are with God, and, verily, I am an obvious warnerSame form · 20 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form لَوْلَآ appears 20 times in the corpus.
- لَوْلَآ4:77:33
- لَوْلَآ6:8:2
- لَوْلَآ7:43:20
- لَوْلَآ10:20:2
- لَوْلَآ11:12:12
- لَوْلَآ12:24:6
- لَوْلَآ12:94:10
- لَوْلَآ13:7:4
- لَوْلَآ13:27:4
- لَوْلَآ20:134:9
- لَوْلَآ25:7:10
- لَوْلَآ25:21:6
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