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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 42:17:9

لَعَلَّ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
42:17
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:42:17:9

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
Perhaps
Transliteration
laʿalla
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لَعَلّ
Part of speech
Accusative particle (ACC)
Features
family: إِنّ

Sub-word segments

  1. لَعَلَّstem · ACC

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 42:17 — 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 →

It is God who revealed the Book with the truth, and the Balance. And what will make you realize that perhaps the Hour is near
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Allah it is Who hath revealed the Scripture with truth, and the Balance. How canst thou know? It may be that the Hour is nigh
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
It is God who hath sent down the Book with truth, and the Balance: but who shall inform thee whether haply "the Hour" be nigh
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
God it is who has sent down the Book with truth, and the balance; and what shall make thee know whether haply the Hour be nigh
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 3 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لَعَلَّ appears 3 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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