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لَعَلَّ

accusative particle  ·  1 entry  ·  Qur'ānic frequency 129

This is Lane’s article on لَعَلَّ. In the printed Lexicon he files it under لعل — that is where it appears on the page, not the word’s root.

Lane’s articleلَعَلَّ2 senses · 1 main
1

[May-be; perhaps]; a word expressing hope and fear.

It puts the subject in the accusative case and the predicate in the nominative.

See Ibn-ʿAkeel, ed. of Dieterici, p. 90; and see لَيْتَ.

1.1in its original and general use, expressing hope—لَعَلَّ

But in the word of God it often expresses certainty, and may be rendered "certainly".

Show Lane's original text
[May-be; perhaps]; a word denoting hope and fear. (K.) It governs the subject in the accus. case, and the predicate in the nom. See Ibn-'Akeel, ed. of Dieterici, p. 90; and see لَيْتَ . لَعَلَّ , in its original and general acceptation, expresses hope; but in the word of God it [often] expresses certainty, and may be rendered Verily. (Jel, ii. 19.)