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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 95:8:1

أَلَيْسَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَلَيْسَ Quranic text
Simple
أَلَيْسَ
Without tashkeel
أليس
Normalised (searchable)
اليس

Position

Computed
Verse
95:8
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:95:8:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
Is not
Transliteration
alaysa
Lemma
لَيْسَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. أَprefix · INTG
  2. لَيْسَstem · V · ل ي س

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 95:8 — 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 →

Is God not the Wisest of the wise
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Is not Allah the most conclusive of all judges
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
What! is not God the most just of judges
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Is not God a most just of judges
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 13 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَلَيْسَ appears 13 times in the corpus.

Root ل ي س · 89 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ل ي س occurs 89 times across 18 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ل ي س

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