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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:36:12

وَلَيْسَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
3:36
Word in verse
12
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:36:12

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · REM
  2. لَيْسَstem · V · ل ي س

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 3:36 — 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 when she delivered her, she said, “My Lord, I have delivered a female,” and God was well aware of what she has delivered, “and the male is not like the female, and I have named her Mary, and have commended her and her descendants to Your protection, from Satan the outcast.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And when she was delivered she said: My Lord! Lo! I am delivered of a female - Allah knew best of what she was delivered - the male is not as the female; and lo! I have named her Mary, and lo! I crave Thy protection for her and for her offspring from Satan the outcast
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And when she had given birth to it, she said, "O my Lord! Verily I have brought forth a female," - God knew what she had brought forth; a male is not as a female - "and I have named her Mary, and I take refuge with thee for her and for her offspring, from Satan the stoned
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And when she brought it forth she said, 'Verily, I have brought it forth a female' - but God knew best what she brought forth; and a male is not like a female - 'I have called her Mary, and I seek a refuge in Thee for her and for her seed from Satan the pelted
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 5 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَلَيْسَ appears 5 times 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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