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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 72:12:9

وَلَن

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
72:12
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:72:12:9

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. لَنstem · 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 72:12 — 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 →

We realized that we cannot defeat God on earth, and that we cannot escape Him by fleeing
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And we know that we cannot escape from Allah in the earth, nor can we escape by flight
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And verily we thought that no one could weaken God on earth, neither could we escape from him by flight
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And we thought that we could not frustrate God in the earth, and could not frustrate Him by flight
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 21 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَلَن appears 21 times in the corpus.

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