See لا in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "Let us not forget…",
"roman": "lā nansa…",
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{
"english": "You shall not miss it.",
"roman": "lā yafutkum",
"text": "لَا يَفُتْكُمْ",
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{
"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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"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"text": "Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma\nيَا حَارِ لَا أُرْمَيَنْ مِنْكُمْ بِدَاهِيَةٍ / لَمْ يَلْقَهَا سُوقَةٌ قَبْلِي وَلَا مَلِكُ\nyā ḥāri lā ʔurmayan minkum bidāhiyatin / lam yalqahā sūqatun qablī walā maliku",
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},
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"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"text": "Al-Farazdaq\nإِذَا مَا خَرَجْنَا مِنْ دِمَشْقَ فَلَا نَعُدْ / لَهَا أَبَدًا مَا دَامَ فِيهَا الْجُرَاضِمُ\nʔiḏā mā ḵarajnā min dimašqa falā naʕud / lahā ʔabadan mā dāma fīhā l-jurāḍimu",
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},
{
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{
"text": "لَافَقَارِيَّات (lāfaqāriyyāt)"
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"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",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"text": "Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma\nيَا حَارِ لَا أُرْمَيَنْ مِنْكُمْ بِدَاهِيَةٍ / لَمْ يَلْقَهَا سُوقَةٌ قَبْلِي وَلَا مَلِكُ\nyā ḥāri lā ʔurmayan minkum bidāhiyatin / lam yalqahā sūqatun qablī walā maliku",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"text": "Al-Farazdaq\nإِذَا مَا خَرَجْنَا مِنْ دِمَشْقَ فَلَا نَعُدْ / لَهَا أَبَدًا مَا دَامَ فِيهَا الْجُرَاضِمُ\nʔiḏā mā ḵarajnā min dimašqa falā naʕud / lahā ʔabadan mā dāma fīhā l-jurāḍimu",
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"english": "No student is present.",
"roman": "lā ṭāliba ḥāḍirun.",
"text": "لَا طَالِبَ حَاضِرٌ.",
"type": "example"
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"there is not, there is no, there is nothing, nothing is"
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"english": "May we not lose you.",
"roman": "lā ʕadimnāk.",
"text": "لَا عَدِمْنَاك.",
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"roman": "mukrahun ʔaḵāka lā baṭalun, proverb",
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"english": "Bring your documents, not your books.",
"roman": "ʔaḥḍir waṯāʔiqaka lā kutubaka",
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"word": "وَلَا سِيَّمَا"
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"roman": "lā jarama",
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"roman": "lā baʔsa",
"word": "لَا بَأْسَ"
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{
"roman": "lā budda",
"word": "لَا بُدَّ"
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"roman": "ʔillā",
"word": "إِلَّا"
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"roman": "bal",
"word": "بَلْ"
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{
"roman": "ḡayr",
"word": "غَيْر"
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"roman": "ʕadam",
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"word": "كَلَّا"
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"text": "لَاسُلْطَوِيّ (lāsulṭawiyy)"
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},
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"text": "لَامُبَالَاة (lāmubālāh)"
},
{
"text": "لَافَقَارِيَّات (lāfaqāriyyāt)"
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