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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 40:74:8

لَّمْ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
40:74
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:40:74:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
Not
Transliteration
lam
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لَم
Part of speech
Negative particle (NEG)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. لَّمْstem · 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 40:74 — 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 →

Instead of God?” They will say, “They have abandoned us. In fact, we were praying to nothing before.” Thus God sends the disbelievers astray
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Beside Allah? They say: They have failed us; but we used not to pray to anything before. Thus doth Allah send astray the disbelievers (in His guidance)
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They shall say, "They have vanished away from us. Yea, it was nought on which we called heretofore." Thus God leadeth the unbelievers astray
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
beside God?' They shall say, 'They have strayed away from us; nay, we did not call before upon anything!' - thus does God lead the misbelievers astray
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 74 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لَّمْ appears 74 times in the corpus.

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