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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 40:36:5

لِى

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
لِى Quranic text
Simple
لِى
Without tashkeel
لى
Normalised (searchable)
لي

Position

Computed
Verse
40:36
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:40:36:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
for me
Transliteration
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
Part of speech
Pronoun (PRON)
Features
person: 1number: singular

Sub-word segments

  1. لِprefix · P
  2. ىstem · 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

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 40:36 — 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 Pharaoh said, “O Hamaan, build me a tower, that I may reach the pathways
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And Pharaoh said: O Haman! Build for me a tower that haply I may reach the roads
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And Pharaoh said, "O Haman, Build for me a tower that I may reach the avenues
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And Pharaoh said, 'O Haman! build for me a tower, haply I may reach the tracts
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 42 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لِى appears 42 times in the corpus.

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Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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