See لم in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "He has not written.",
"roman": "lam yaktub",
"text": "لَمْ يَكْتُبْ",
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"english": "Those who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture and the polytheists were not to be parted [from misbelief] until there came to them clear evidence.",
"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 98:1:",
"roman": "lam yakuni llaḏīna kafarū min ʔahli l-kitābi wa-l-mušrikīna munfakkīna ḥattā taʔtiyahumu l-bayyinatu.",
"text": "لَمْ يَكُنِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْ أَهْلِ ٱلْكِتَابِ وَٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ مُنْفَكِّينَ حَتَّى تَأْتِيَهُمُ ٱلْبَيِّنَةُ.",
"translation": "Those who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture and the polytheists were not to be parted [from misbelief] until there came to them clear evidence.",
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"word": "لَا"
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"english": "O you who have believed! Why do you say what you do not do? Great is hatred in the sight of Allah that you say what you do not do.",
"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 61:2-3:",
"roman": "yā ʔayyuhā llaḏīna ʔāmanū lima taqūlūna mā lā tafʕalūna\n kabura maqtan ʕinda llāhi ʔan taqūlū mā lā tafʕalūna",
"text": "يَا أَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لِمَ تَقُولُونَ مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ\n كَبُرَ مَقْتًا عِنْدَ ٱللّٰهِ أَن تَقُولُوا مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ",
"translation": "O you who have believed! Why do you say what you do not do? Great is hatred in the sight of Allah that you say what you do not do.",
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"word": "لم"
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"english": "He has not written.",
"roman": "lam yaktub",
"text": "لَمْ يَكْتُبْ",
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"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 98:1:",
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"text": "لَمْ يَكُنِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْ أَهْلِ ٱلْكِتَابِ وَٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ مُنْفَكِّينَ حَتَّى تَأْتِيَهُمُ ٱلْبَيِّنَةُ.",
"translation": "Those who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture and the polytheists were not to be parted [from misbelief] until there came to them clear evidence.",
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"roman": "yā ʔayyuhā llaḏīna ʔāmanū lima taqūlūna mā lā tafʕalūna\n kabura maqtan ʕinda llāhi ʔan taqūlū mā lā tafʕalūna",
"text": "يَا أَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لِمَ تَقُولُونَ مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ\n كَبُرَ مَقْتًا عِنْدَ ٱللّٰهِ أَن تَقُولُوا مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ",
"translation": "O you who have believed! Why do you say what you do not do? Great is hatred in the sight of Allah that you say what you do not do.",
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