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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 6:20:12

لَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
6:20
Word in verse
12
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:6:20:12

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. 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 6:20 — 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 →

Those to whom We have given the Book recognize it as they recognize their own children; but those who have lost their souls do not believe
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Those unto whom We gave the Scripture recognise (this revelation) as they recognise their sons. Those who ruin their own souls will not believe
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They to whom we have given the Book, recognise him (Muhammad) as they do their own children: but they who are the authors of their own perdition are they who will not believe
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Those to whom we have brought the Book know him as they know their sons;- those who lose their souls do not believe
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 616 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لَا appears 616 times in the corpus.

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