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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 70:40:1

فَلَآ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
70 · The Ascending Stairways
Verse
70:40
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:70:40:1

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. فَprefix · REM
  2. لَآstem · 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 70:40 — 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 →

I swear by the Lord of the Easts and the Wests, that We are Able
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
But nay! I swear by the Lord of the rising-places and the setting-places of the planets that We verily are Able
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
It needs not that I swear by the Lord of the East and of the West that we have power
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And I need not swear by the Lord of the easts and the wests; verily, we are able
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 11 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form فَلَآ appears 11 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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