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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 8:68:1

لَّوْلَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
8:68
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:8:68:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
Had not
Transliteration
lawlā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لَوْلا
Part of speech
COND
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. لَّوْلَاstem · COND

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 8:68 — 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 →

Were it not for a predetermined decree from God, an awful punishment would have afflicted you for what you have taken
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Had it not been for an ordinance of Allah which had gone before, an awful doom had come upon you on account of what ye took
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Had there not been a previous ordinance from God, a severe chastisement had befallen you, for the ransom which ye took
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Were it not for a book from God that had gone before, there would have touched you, for that which ye took, a mighty punishment
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 3 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لَّوْلَا appears 3 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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