Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 6:37:2

لَوْلَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): لَوْلَا Quranic text
Simple: لَوْلَا
Without tashkeel: لولا
Normalised (searchable): لولا

Position

Computed

Surah: 6 · The Cattle
Verse: 6:37
Word in verse: 2
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:6:37:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: "Why (is) not
Transliteration: lawlā

Root: none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma: لَوْلا
Part of speech: EXH
Features: —

Sub-word segments

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

The Cattle 6:37Quranic text

وَقَالُوا۟لَوْلَا نُزِّلَ عَلَيْهِ ءَايَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِۦ قُلْ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ قَادِرٌ عَلَىٰٓ أَن يُنَزِّلَ ءَايَةً وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 6:37 — 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 →

And they say, “If only a sign could come down to him from his Lord.” Say, “God is Able to send down a sign, but most of them do not know.”

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

They say: Why hath no portent been sent down upon him from his Lord? Say: Lo! Allah is Able to send down a portent. But most of them know not

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

They say, "Unless a sign be sent down to him from his Lord. . . ." SAY: Verily, God is able to send down a sign; but the greater part of them know it not

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

They say, 'Unless there be sent down some sign from his Lord' - say, 'Verily, God is able to send down a sign, but most of them do not know

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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