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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 43:52:9

وَلَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
43:52
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:43:52:9

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
walā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لا
Part of speech
Negative particle (NEG)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. لَاstem · 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 43:52 — 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 →

Am I not better than this miserable wretch, who can barely express himself
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
I am surely better than this fellow, who is despicable and can hardly make (his meaning) plain
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Am I not mightier than this despicable fellow, And who scarce can speak distinctly
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Am I better than this fellow, who is contemptible, who can hardly explain himself
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 605 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَلَا appears 605 times in the corpus.

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