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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 43:33:1

وَلَوْلَآ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
43 · Ornaments of gold
Verse
43:33
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:43:33:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
And if not
Transliteration
walawlā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لَوْلا
Part of speech
COND
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. لَوْلَآstem · COND

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 43:33 — 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 →

Were it not that humanity would become a single community, We would have provided those who disbelieve in the Most Gracious with roofs of silver to their houses, and stairways by which they ascend
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And were it not that mankind would have become one community, We might well have appointed, for those who disbelieve in the Beneficent, roofs of silver for their houses and stairs (of silver) whereby to mount
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
But for fear that all mankind would have become a single people of unbelievers, verily we would certainly have given to those who believe not in the God of Mercy roofs of silver to their houses, and silver stairs to ascend by
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And but that men would then have been one nation, we would have made for those who misbelieve in the Merciful One roofs of silver for their houses, and steps up thereto which they might mount
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 7 occurrences

Computed

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

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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