"لو" meaning in Arabic

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "lawlā",
      "word": "لَوْلَا"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "afb",
            "2": "لو",
            "tr": "law"
          },
          "expansion": "Gulf Arabic: لو (law)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Gulf Arabic: لو (law)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ajp",
            "2": "لو",
            "tr": "law"
          },
          "expansion": "South Levantine Arabic: لو (law)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "South Levantine Arabic: لو (law)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "he",
        "2": "לוּ",
        "tr": "lū"
      },
      "expansion": "Hebrew לוּ (lū)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Compare Hebrew לוּ (lū).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "لَوْ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "لَوْ"
      },
      "expansion": "لَوْ • (law)",
      "name": "ar-con"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Arabic",
  "lang_code": "ar",
  "pos": "conj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "80 16 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Arabic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 11 2 2 2 2 2 20 4 7",
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          "name": "Pages with 7 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "55 11 2 1 1 1 1 21 2 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Had there been within the heavens and earth gods besides Allah, they both would have been ruined.",
          "ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 21:22:",
          "roman": "law kāna fīhimā ʔālihatun ʔillā llāhu la-fasadatā",
          "text": "لَوْ كَانَ فِيهِمَا آلِهَةٌ إِلَّا ٱللّٰهُ لَفَسَدَتَا",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "Has it not become clear to those who inherited the earth after its [previous] people that if We willed, We could afflict them for their sins? But We seal over their hearts so they do not hear.",
          "ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 7:100:",
          "roman": "ʔawalam yahdi li-llaḏīna yariṯūna l-ʔarḍa min baʕdi ʔahlihā ʔan llaw našāʔu ʔaṣabnāhum bi-ḏunūbihim wa-naṭbaʕu ʕalā qulūbihim fahum lā yasmaʕūna",
          "text": "أَوَلَمْ يَهْدِ لِلَّذِينَ يَرِثُونَ ٱلْأَرْضَ مِن بَعْدِ أَهْلِهَا أَن لَّوْ نَشَاءُ أَصَبْنَاهُم بِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَنَطْبَعُ عَلَى قُلُوبِهِمْ فَهُمْ لَا يَسْمَعُونَ",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "if (contrary to fact)"
      ],
      "id": "en-لو-ar-conj-4a8IrGUK",
      "links": [
        [
          "if",
          "if"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children.",
          "ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 70:11:",
          "roman": "yawaddu l-mujrimu law yaftadī min ʕaḏābi yawmiʔiḏin bi-banīhi",
          "text": "يَوَدُّ الْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدِي مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍ بِبَنِيهِ",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "Perhaps those who disbelieve will wish that they had been Muslims.",
          "ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 15:2:",
          "roman": "rubamā yawaddu allaḏīna kafarū law kānū muslimīna",
          "text": "رُبَمَا يَوَدُّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَوْ كَانُوا مُسْلِمِينَ",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "that (often used with the verb وَدَّ (wadda))"
      ],
      "id": "en-لو-ar-conj-~xzcr376",
      "links": [
        [
          "that",
          "that"
        ],
        [
          "وَدَّ",
          "ود#Arabic"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Those who followed will say, \"If only we had another turn [at worldly life] so we could disassociate ourselves from them as they have disassociated themselves from us.\"",
          "ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:167:",
          "roman": "wa-qāla llaḏīna ttabaʕū law ʔanna lanā karratan fa-natabarraʔa minhum kamā tabarraʔū minnā",
          "text": "وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّبَعُوا لَوْ أَنَّ لَنَا كَرَّةً فَنَتَبَرَّأَ مِنْهُمْ كَمَا تَبَرَّؤُوا مِنَّا",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "if only"
      ],
      "id": "en-لو-ar-conj-FRQlEQTZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "if only",
          "if only"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/law/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "لو"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "lawlā",
      "word": "لَوْلَا"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Arabic 1-syllable words",
    "Arabic conjunctions",
    "Arabic entries with incorrect language header",
    "Arabic lemmas",
    "Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 7 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "afb",
            "2": "لو",
            "tr": "law"
          },
          "expansion": "Gulf Arabic: لو (law)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Gulf Arabic: لو (law)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ajp",
            "2": "لو",
            "tr": "law"
          },
          "expansion": "South Levantine Arabic: لو (law)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "South Levantine Arabic: لو (law)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "he",
        "2": "לוּ",
        "tr": "lū"
      },
      "expansion": "Hebrew לוּ (lū)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Compare Hebrew לוּ (lū).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "لَوْ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "لَوْ"
      },
      "expansion": "لَوْ • (law)",
      "name": "ar-con"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Arabic",
  "lang_code": "ar",
  "pos": "conj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Arabic terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Had there been within the heavens and earth gods besides Allah, they both would have been ruined.",
          "ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 21:22:",
          "roman": "law kāna fīhimā ʔālihatun ʔillā llāhu la-fasadatā",
          "text": "لَوْ كَانَ فِيهِمَا آلِهَةٌ إِلَّا ٱللّٰهُ لَفَسَدَتَا",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "Has it not become clear to those who inherited the earth after its [previous] people that if We willed, We could afflict them for their sins? But We seal over their hearts so they do not hear.",
          "ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 7:100:",
          "roman": "ʔawalam yahdi li-llaḏīna yariṯūna l-ʔarḍa min baʕdi ʔahlihā ʔan llaw našāʔu ʔaṣabnāhum bi-ḏunūbihim wa-naṭbaʕu ʕalā qulūbihim fahum lā yasmaʕūna",
          "text": "أَوَلَمْ يَهْدِ لِلَّذِينَ يَرِثُونَ ٱلْأَرْضَ مِن بَعْدِ أَهْلِهَا أَن لَّوْ نَشَاءُ أَصَبْنَاهُم بِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَنَطْبَعُ عَلَى قُلُوبِهِمْ فَهُمْ لَا يَسْمَعُونَ",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "if (contrary to fact)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "if",
          "if"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Arabic terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children.",
          "ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 70:11:",
          "roman": "yawaddu l-mujrimu law yaftadī min ʕaḏābi yawmiʔiḏin bi-banīhi",
          "text": "يَوَدُّ الْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدِي مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍ بِبَنِيهِ",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "Perhaps those who disbelieve will wish that they had been Muslims.",
          "ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 15:2:",
          "roman": "rubamā yawaddu allaḏīna kafarū law kānū muslimīna",
          "text": "رُبَمَا يَوَدُّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَوْ كَانُوا مُسْلِمِينَ",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "that (often used with the verb وَدَّ (wadda))"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "that",
          "that"
        ],
        [
          "وَدَّ",
          "ود#Arabic"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Arabic terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Those who followed will say, \"If only we had another turn [at worldly life] so we could disassociate ourselves from them as they have disassociated themselves from us.\"",
          "ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:167:",
          "roman": "wa-qāla llaḏīna ttabaʕū law ʔanna lanā karratan fa-natabarraʔa minhum kamā tabarraʔū minnā",
          "text": "وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّبَعُوا لَوْ أَنَّ لَنَا كَرَّةً فَنَتَبَرَّأَ مِنْهُمْ كَمَا تَبَرَّؤُوا مِنَّا",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "if only"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "if only",
          "if only"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/law/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "لو"
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
  "msg": "unrecognized head form: law",
  "path": [
    "لو"
  ],
  "section": "Arabic",
  "subsection": "conjunction",
  "title": "لو",
  "trace": ""
}