Skip to content
quranbench
Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 51:27:4

أَلَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَلَا Quranic text
Simple
أَلَا
Without tashkeel
ألا
Normalised (searchable)
الا

Position

Computed
Verse
51:27
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:51:27:4

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. أَprefix · INTG
  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 51:27 — 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 →

He set it before them. He said, “Will you not eat?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And he set it before them, saying: Will ye not eat
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And set it before them. He said, "Eat ye not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
and brought it nigh unto them; said he, 'Will ye then not eat
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 31 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَلَا appears 31 times in the corpus.

View all 31 occurrences in search →

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

No published investigation cites this word yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.