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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 69:27:1

يَٰلَيْتَهَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
69 · The Reality
Verse
69:27
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:69:27:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
O! I wish it
Transliteration
yālaytahā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لَيْت
Part of speech
Accusative particle (ACC)
Features
family: إِنّ

Sub-word segments

  1. يَٰprefix · VOC
  2. لَيْتَstem · ACC
  3. هَاsuffix · PRON

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 69:27 — 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 →

If only it was the end
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Oh, would that it had been death
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
O that death had made an end of me
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
O, would that it had been an end of me
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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