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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 35:42:18

إِلَّا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
إِلَّا Quranic text
Simple
إِلَّا
Without tashkeel
إلا
Normalised (searchable)
الا

Position

Computed
Verse
35:42
Word in verse
18
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:35:42:18

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
but
Transliteration
illā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
إِلّا
Part of speech
RES
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. إِلَّاstem · RES

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 35:42 — 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 they swore by God with their solemn oaths, that if a warner came to them, they would be more guided than any other people. Yet when a warner came to them, it only increased them in aversion
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And they swore by Allah, their most binding oath, that if a warner came unto them they would be more tractable than any of the nations; yet, when a warner came unto them it aroused in them naught save repugnance
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They swore by God with their mightiest oath that should a preacher come to them they would yield to guidance more than any people: but when the preacher came to them it only increased in them their estrangement
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They swore by God with their most strenuous oath, verily, if there come to them a warner they would be more guided than any one of the nations; but when a warner comes to them, it only increases them in aversion
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 562 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form إِلَّا appears 562 times in the corpus.

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