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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 8:15:9

فَلَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
8 · The Spoils of War
Verse
8:15
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:8:15:9

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
then (do) not
Transliteration
falā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لا
Part of speech
PRO
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. فَprefix · RSLT
  2. لَاstem · PRO

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 8:15 — 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 →

O you who believe! When you meet those who disbelieve on the march, never turn your backs on them
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
O ye who believe! When ye meet those who disbelieve in battle, turn not your backs to them
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
O ye who believe! when ye meet the marshalled hosts of the infidels, turn not your backs to them
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
O ye who believe! when ye meet those who misbelieve in swarms, turn not to them your hinder parts
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 145 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form فَلَا appears 145 times in the corpus.

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Community

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