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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 37:91:5

أَلَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
37:91
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:37:91:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
"Do not
Transliteration
alā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لا
Part of speech
Negative particle (NEG)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. أَprefix · INTG
  2. 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 37:91 — 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 →

Then he turned to their gods, and said, “will you not eat
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Then turned he to their gods and said: Will ye not eat
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
He went aside to their gods and said, "Do ye not eat
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And he went aside unto their gods and said, 'Will ye not eat
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 31 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَلَا appears 31 times in the corpus.

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