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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 32:27:16

أَفَلَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَفَلَا Quranic text
Simple
أَفَلَا
Without tashkeel
أفلا
Normalised (searchable)
افلا

Position

Computed
Verse
32:27
Word in verse
16
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:32:27:16

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
afalā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لا
Part of speech
Negative particle (NEG)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. أَprefix · INTG
  2. فَprefix · SUP
  3. لَاstem · 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 32:27 — 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 →

Do they not see how We conduct the water to a dry land, and with it We produce vegetation, from which their livestock eat, and themselves? Do they not see
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Have they not seen how We lead the water to the barren land and therewith bring forth crops whereof their cattle eat, and they themselves? Will they not then see
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
See they not how we drive the rain to some parched land and thereby bring forth corn of which their cattle and themselves do eat? Will they not then behold
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Have they not seen that we drive the water to the sterile land, and bring forth thereby corn from which their cattle and themselves do eat? do they not then see
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 45 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَفَلَا appears 45 times in the corpus.

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Community

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