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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 33:63:12

لَعَلَّ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
33 · The Clans
Verse
33:63
Word in verse
12
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:33:63:12

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
Perhaps
Transliteration
laʿalla
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لَعَلّ
Part of speech
Accusative particle (ACC)
Features
family: إِنّ

Sub-word segments

  1. لَعَلَّstem · ACC

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 33:63 — 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 →

The people ask you about the Hour. Say, “The knowledge thereof rests with God. But what do you know? Perhaps the hour is near.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Men ask thee of the Hour. Say: The knowledge of it is with Allah only. What can convey (the knowledge) unto thee? It may be that the Hour is nigh
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Men will ask thee of "the Hour." SAY: The knowledge of it is with God alone: and who can tell thee whether haply the Hour be not nigh at hand
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
The folk will ask thee about the Hour; say, 'The knowledge thereof is only with God, and what is to make thee perceive that the Hour is haply nigh
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 3 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لَعَلَّ appears 3 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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