Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 4:73:13

يَٰلَيْتَنِى

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): يَٰلَيْتَنِى Quranic text
Simple: يَٰلَيْتَنِى
Without tashkeel: يليتنى
Normalised (searchable): يليتني

Position

Computed

Surah: 4 · The Women
Verse: 4:73
Word in verse: 13
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:4:73:13

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: "Oh! I wish
Transliteration: yālaytanī

Root: none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma: لَيْت
Part of speech: Accusative particle (ACC)
Features: family: إِنّ

Sub-word segments

يَٰprefix · VOC
لَيْتَstem · ACC
نِىsuffix · PRON

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

The Women 4:73Quranic text

وَلَئِنْ أَصَٰبَكُمْ فَضْلٌ مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ لَيَقُولَنَّ كَأَن لَّمْ تَكُنۢ بَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَهُۥ مَوَدَّةٌ يَٰلَيْتَنِى كُنتُ مَعَهُمْ فَأَفُوزَ فَوْزًا عَظِيمًا

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 4:73 — 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 →

But when some bounty from God comes to you, he says—as if no affection existed between you and him—“If only I had been with them, I would have achieved a great victory.”

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

And if a bounty from Allah befell you, he would surely cry, as if there had been no love between you and him: Oh, would that I had been with them, then should I have achieved a great success

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

But if a success from God betide you, he will say, as if there had never been any friendship between you and him, "Would I had been with them! a rich prize should I have won

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

But if there befalls you grace from God, he would say - as though there were no friendship between you and him - 'O would that I had been with thee to attain this mighty happiness

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 7 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form يَٰلَيْتَنِى appears 7 times in the corpus.

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