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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:113:1

لَيْسُوا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
لَيْسُوا۟ Quranic text
Simple
لَيْسُوا
Without tashkeel
ليسوا
Normalised (searchable)
ليسوا

Position

Computed
Verse
3:113
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:113:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
laysū
Lemma
لَيْسَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. لَيْسُstem · V · ل ي س
  2. وا۟suffix · 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 3:113 — 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 →

They are not alike. Among the People of the Scripture is a community that is upright; they recite God’s revelations throughout the night, and they prostrate themselves
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
They are not all alike. Of the People of the Scripture there is a staunch community who recite the revelations of Allah in the night season, falling prostrate (before Him)
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Yet all are not alike: Among the people of the Book is an upright folk, who recite the signs of God in the night-season, and adore
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They are not all alike. Of the people of the Book there is a nation upright, reciting God's signs throughout the night, as they adore the while
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root ل ي س · 89 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ل ي س occurs 89 times across 18 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ل ي س

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