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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 36:18:5

لَئِن

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
36 · Yaseen
Verse
36:18
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:36:18:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
If
Transliteration
la-in
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
إِن
Part of speech
COND
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. لَprefix · EMPH
  2. ئِنstem · COND

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 36:18 — 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 →

They said, “We see an evil omen in you; if you do not give up, we will stone you, and a painful punishment from us will befall you.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
(The people of the city) said: We augur ill of you. If ye desist not, we shall surely stone you, and grievous torture will befall you at our hands
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They said, "Of a truth we augur ill from you: if ye desist not we will surely stone you, and a grievous punishment will surely befall you from us
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They said, 'Verily, we have augured concerning you, and if ye do not desist we will surely stone you, and there shall touch you from us a grievous woe
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 12 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لَئِن appears 12 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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