See لا on Wiktionary
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"roman": "naʕam",
"sense": "antonym(s) of “no”",
"word": "نَعَم"
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"english": "Let us not forget…",
"roman": "lā nansa…",
"text": "لَا نَنْسَ…"
},
{
"english": "You shall not miss it.",
"roman": "lā yafutkum",
"text": "لَا يَفُتْكُمْ"
},
{
"english": "O you who have believed, let not a people ridicule people; perhaps they may be better than them; nor let women ridicule women; perhaps they may be better than them. And do not insult one another and do not call each other by names.",
"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 49:11:",
"roman": "yā ʔayyuhā llaḏīna ʔāmanū lā yasḵar qawmun min qawmin ʕasā ʔan yakūnū ḵayran minhum wa-lā nisāʔun min nisāʔin ʕasā ʔan yakunna ḵayran minhunna wa-lā talmizū ʔanfusakum wa-lā tanābazū bi-l-ʔalqābi",
"text": "يَا أَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا يَسْخَرْ قَوْمٌ مِنْ قَوْمٍ عَسَى أَنْ يَكُونُوا خَيْرًا مِنْهُمْ وَلَا نِسَاءٌ مِنْ نِسَاءٍ عَسَى أَن يَكُنَّ خَيْرًا مِنْهُنَّ وَلَا تَلْمِزُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ وَلَا تَنَابَزُوا بِٱلْأَلْقَابِ",
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"text": "Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma\nيَا حَارِ لَا أُرْمَيَنْ مِنْكُمْ بِدَاهِيَةٍ\nلَمْ يَلْقَهَا سُوقَةٌ قَبْلِي وَلَا مَلِكُ\nyā ḥāri lā ʔurmayan minkum bidāhiyatin\nlam yalqahā sūqatun qablī walā maliku",
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"text": "Al-Farazdaq\nإِذَا مَا خَرَجْنَا مِنْ دِمَشْقَ فَلَا نَعُدْ\nلَهَا أَبَدًا مَا دَامَ فِيهَا الْجُرَاضِمُ\nʔiḏā mā ḵarajnā min dimašqa falā naʕud\nlahā ʔabadan mā dāma fīhā l-jurāḍimu",
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}
],
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}
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"word": "نه"
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"word": "نیست"
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"layer"
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"ply",
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}
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{
"english": "Don't forget to do your homework!",
"roman": "la tinsa tiʕmil wājbātak",
"text": "لا تنسى تعمل واجباتك!"
}
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"word": "ما"
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"word": "ـش"
}
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"english": "May it not be that something hurt him.",
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"text": "لا يكون صابه إشي."
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}
Download raw JSONL data for لا meaning in All languages combined (16.7kB)
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"msg": "unrecognized linkage prefix: (-un): نا (nâ) desc=-un rest=نا (nâ) cls=romanization cls2=other e1=True e2=False",
"path": [
"لا"
],
"section": "Persian",
"subsection": "particle",
"title": "لا",
"trace": ""
}
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