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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 61:2:4

لِمَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
61 · The Ranks
Verse
61:2
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:61:2:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
Why
Transliteration
lima
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ما
Part of speech
Interrogative (INTG)
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. لِprefix · P
  2. مَstem · INTG

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 · 5 editions

These translations render verse 61:2 — 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 →

O you who believe! Why do you say what you do not do
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
O ye who believe! Why say ye that which ye do not
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Believers! why profess ye that which ye practise not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
O ye who believe! say not what ye do not
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
which those whom they trusted in why you say what not you do

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.

Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0How this was produced

Same form · 15 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لِمَ appears 15 times in the corpus.

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Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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