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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 11:68:1

كَأَن

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
كَأَن Quranic text
Simple
كَأَن
Without tashkeel
كأن
Normalised (searchable)
كان

Position

Computed
Surah
11 · Hud
Verse
11:68
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:11:68:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
As if
Transliteration
ka-an
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
كَأَنْ
Part of speech
Accusative particle (ACC)
Features
family: إِنّ

Sub-word segments

  1. كَأَنstem · ACC

Morphology is an external annotation from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus, licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. It is not Quranic text and never alters the token.

In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 11:68 — the whole verse this word appears in — not this word alone. The correspondence is verse-level: no word-level alignment of translations exists for these editions, so we do not claim which English word renders this Arabic word. Compare the editions →

As if they had never prospered therein. Indeed, Thamood rejected their Lord, so away with Thamood
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
As though they had not dwelt there. Lo! Thamud disbelieved in their Lord. A far removal for Thamud
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
As though they had never abode in them. What! Did not Themoud disbelieve his Lord? Was not Themoud utterly cast off
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
as though they had never dwelt therein. Did not Thamud indeed disbelieve in their Lord? Aye! away with Thamud
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 9 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَأَن appears 9 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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