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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 9:55:1

فَلَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
9:55
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:9:55:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
falā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
لا
Part of speech
PRO
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. فَprefix · REM
  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 9:55 — 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 →

Let neither their possessions nor their children impress you. God intends to torment them through them in this worldly life, and that their souls depart while they are disbelievers
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
So let not their riches nor their children please thee (O Muhammad). Allah thereby intendeth but to punish them in the life of the world and that their souls shall pass away while they are disbelievers
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Let not, therefore, their riches or their children amaze thee. God is only minded to punish them by means of these, in this life present, and that their souls may depart while they are unbelievers
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Let not their wealth please you nor their children, God only wishes to torment them therewith in the life of this world, and that their souls may pass away while still they misbelieve
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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