lawolaA * and lawomaA : see HaD~ahu . ― -b2- lawolaA faEalotu ka*aA means Wherefore didst not thou such a thing? and lawolaA tafoEalu ka*aA means Wherefore wilt not thou do such a thing? and in like manner, lawomaA and A^l~aA and hal~aA . See an ex. in the Kur, x. 98, explained in art. A_il~aA . ― -b3- lawolaA h`*aA lakaAna *aAka Had not this been, or but for this, that had been, or would have been. ― -b4- lawolaA is followed by a noun in the nom. case (as in the Kur, viii. 69), or by a verb, as in exs. above.
The corpus record — Arabic
لَوْلَآ
lawlaaa
lawolaA * and lawomaA : see HaD~ahu . ― -b2- lawolaA faEalotu ka*aA means Wherefore didst not thou such a thing? and lawolaA tafoEalu ka*aA means Wherefore wilt not thou do such a thing? and in like manner, lawomaA and A^l~aA and hal~aA . See an ex. in the Kur, x. 98, explained in art. A_il~aA . ― -
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Where it lives
- The Quran 75 · 5.86/10k
What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon
In the wild
- لَوْلَا Quran 10:19 (Yunus 19)
- لَوْلَا^ Quran 10:20 (Yunus 20)
- لَوْلَا Quran 10:98 (Yunus 98)
- لَوْلَا Quran 11:110 (Hud 110)
- لَوْلَا Quran 11:116 (Hud 116)
- لَوْلَا^ Quran 11:12 (Hud 12)
6 of 75 attestations shown.
Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.