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ل l
Preposition that attaches a thing or an act to someone: what belongs to him, what falls to him, the one for whom one acts. In the text it almost always carries a suffixed…
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لا la
Particle of negation: it denies a fact, forbids an act or excludes a whole category. Uses 1. لَا + imperfect → "not", "neither … nor" : denies the fact, present or to com…
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لدن ldn
Preposition of provenance: what comes directly from someone, from himself. Uses 1. لَّدُنكَ → "from Yourself" : in invocation: what God is asked to give from Himself. «وَ…
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لدى lda
Preposition of presence: to be beside someone or something, at his side, at the moment the thing takes place. Uses 1. لَدَيْهِمْ → "with them" : to be present at the even…
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لعل l'l
Particle of expectation: it announces the result an action aims at, without asserting that it will be reached. Uses 1. لَعَلَّ + subject → "perhaps" : after a command or…
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لفو lfw
To find a thing in the state it is in, by coming upon it. Uses 1. أَلْفَىٰ → "find" : to come upon a state already there: the ancestors on their way, a man at the door. «…
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لكن lkn
To set right what precedes: after a negation, an expectation or a hypothesis, to state what actually is. Uses 1. وَلَٰكِن, وَلَٰكِنَّ → "but … it is … that" : after a neg…
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لم lm
Negation of the past fact: لَمْ, followed by the apocopated imperfect, negates what has taken place. Uses 1. لَمْ, وَلَمْ → "not" : negates an accomplished fact, though t…
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لما lma
Particle that sets an accomplished fact as the marker of another; before the jussive, it denies what has not yet happened. Uses 1. لَمَّا + perfect → "when" : the first f…
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لن ln
Particle that negates the future with certainty: what will not be done. It bears on the imperfect. Uses 1. وَلَن → "never" : the certain negation of the future. «وَلَن تَ…
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لو lw
Unreal condition: لَوْ sets a hypothesis that reality has already ruled out, and its sequel says what would have followed. Uses 1. وَلَوْ شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ, فَلَوْ شَآءَ → "h…
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ليت lyt
To wish for what is not or is no longer: the wish turned toward what might have been. Uses 1. يَٰلَيْتَ, يَٰلَيْتَنِى, يَٰلَيْتَنَا → "if only" : the wish for something o…
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ليس lys
To deny that a subject is what is said of it, or has what is attributed to it. Uses 1. لَيْسَ, لَسْتَ → "is not" : denies the attribute of a subject. «لَيْسُوا۟ سَوَآءًۭ»…
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