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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:8:8

مِنَّا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
مِنَّا Quranic text
Simple
مِنَّا
Without tashkeel
منا
Normalised (searchable)
منا

Position

Computed
Surah
12 · Joseph
Verse
12:8
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:8:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
than we,
Transliteration
minnā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
مِن
Part of speech
Preposition (P)
Features
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Sub-word segments

  1. مِنَّstem · P
  2. اsuffix · PRON

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 12:8 — 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 →

When they said, “Joseph and his brother are dearer to our father than we are, although we are a whole group. Our father is obviously in the wrong
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
When they said: Verily Joseph and his brother are dearer to our father than we are, many though we be. Lo! our father is in plain aberration
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
When they said, "Surely better loved by our Father, than we, who are more in number, is Joseph and his brother; verily, our father hath clearly erred
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
When they said, 'Surely, Joseph and his brother are dearer to our father than we, a band although we be; verily, our father is in obvious error
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 12 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form مِنَّا appears 12 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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