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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 5:63:1

لَوْلَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
5:63
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:5:63:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
lawlā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لَوْلا
Part of speech
EXH
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. لَوْلَاstem · EXH

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 5:63 — 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 →

Why do the rabbis and the priests not prevent them from speaking sinfully and from consuming forbidden wealth? Evil is what they have been doing
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Why do not the rabbis and the priests forbid their evil-speaking and their devouring of illicit gain? Verily evil is their handiwork
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Had not their doctors and teachers forbidden their uttering wickedness, and their eating unlawful food, bad indeed would have been their doings
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
The masters and their doctors prohibit them from speaking sin and eating unlawful things, - evil is what they have performed
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 13 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لَوْلَا appears 13 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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