Skip to content
quranbench
Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 68:28:3

أَلَمْ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَلَمْ Quranic text
Simple
أَلَمْ
Without tashkeel
ألم
Normalised (searchable)
الم

Position

Computed
Verse
68:28
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:68:28:3

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. أَprefix · INTG
  2. لَمْstem · 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 68:28 — 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 →

The most reasonable of them said, “Did I not say to you, ‘if only you would glorify?’”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
The best among them said: Said I not unto you: Why glorify ye not (Allah)
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
The most rightminded of them said, "Did I not say to you, Will ye not give praise to God
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said the most moderate of them, 'Said I not to you, "unless ye celebrate God's praises
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 78 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَلَمْ appears 78 times in the corpus.

View all 78 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.