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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 78:40:13

يَٰلَيْتَنِى

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
يَٰلَيْتَنِى Quranic text
Simple
يَٰلَيْتَنِى
Without tashkeel
يليتنى
Normalised (searchable)
يليتني

Position

Computed
Surah
78 · The Announcement
Verse
78:40
Word in verse
13
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:78:40:13

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
"O I wish!
Transliteration
yālaytanī
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. نِىsuffix · 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 78:40 — 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 →

We have warned you of a near punishment—the Day when a person will observe what his hands have produced, and the faithless will say, “O, I wish I were dust.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Lo! We warn you of a doom at hand, a day whereon a man will look on that which his own hands have sent before, and the disbeliever will cry: "Would that I were dust
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Verily, we warn you of a chastisement close at hand: The day on which a man shall see the deeds which his hands have sent before him; and when the unbeliever shall say, "Oh! would I were dust
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Verily, we have warned you of a torment that is nigh: on a day when man shall see what his two hands have sent forward; and the misbeliever shall say, 'Would that I were dust
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 7 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form يَٰلَيْتَنِى appears 7 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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