The Family of Imraan 3:40Quranic text
قَالَرَبِّأَنَّىٰيَكُونُلِىغُلَٰمٌوَقَدْبَلَغَنِىَٱلْكِبَرُوَٱمْرَأَتِىعَاقِرٌقَالَكَذَٰلِكَٱللَّهُيَفْعَلُمَايَشَآءُ
Reference 3:40Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:40:5
لِى
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- لِى Quranic text
- Simple
- لِى
- Without tashkeel
- لى
- Normalised (searchable)
- لي
Position
Computed- Verse
- 3:40
- Word in verse
- 5
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:40:5
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- for me
- Transliteration
- lī
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- —
- Part of speech
- Pronoun (PRON)
- Features
- person: 1number: singular
Sub-word segments
- لِprefix · P
- ىstem · 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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 3:40 — 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, “My Lord, how will I have a son, when old age has overtaken me, and my wife is barren?” He said, “Even so, God does whatever He wills.”He said: My Lord! How can I have a son when age hath overtaken me already and my wife is barren? (The angel) answered: So (it will be). Allah doeth what He willHe said, "O my Lord! how shall I have a son, now that old age hath come upon me, and my wife is barren?" He said, "Thus will God do His pleasureHe said, 'My Lord, how can there be to me a boy when old age has reached me, and my wife is barren?' Said he, 'Thus God does what He pleasethSame form · 42 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form لِى appears 42 times in the corpus.
- لِى2:152:4
- لِى2:186:13
- لِى3:38:8
- لِى3:47:5
- لِى5:116:25
- لِى7:151:4
- لِى11:47:10
- لِى11:47:15
- لِى11:80:4
- لِى12:4:14
- لِى12:80:34
- لِى14:22:23
Cited by 0 investigations
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