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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 72:27:1

إِلَّا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
إِلَّا Quranic text
Simple
إِلَّا
Without tashkeel
إلا
Normalised (searchable)
الا

Position

Computed
Verse
72:27
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:72:27:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
Except
Transliteration
illā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
إِلّا
Part of speech
EXP
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. إِلَّاstem · EXP

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 72:27 — 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 →

Except to a Messenger of His choosing. He then dispatches guards before him and behind him
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Save unto every messenger whom He hath chosen, and then He maketh a guard to go before him and a guard behind him
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Except to that Apostle who pleaseth Him; and before him and behind him He maketh a guard to march
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
save such apostle as He is well pleased with: for, verily, He sends marching before him and behind him a guard
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 562 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form إِلَّا appears 562 times in the corpus.

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