Joseph 12:8Quranic text
إِذْقَالُوا۟لَيُوسُفُوَأَخُوهُأَحَبُّإِلَىٰٓأَبِينَامِنَّاوَنَحْنُعُصْبَةٌإِنَّأَبَانَالَفِىضَلَٰلٍمُّبِينٍ
Reference 12:8Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:8:9
وَنَحْنُ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- وَنَحْنُ Quranic text
- Simple
- وَنَحْنُ
- Without tashkeel
- ونحن
- Normalised (searchable)
- ونحن
Position
Computed- Surah
- 12 · Joseph
- Verse
- 12:8
- Word in verse
- 9
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:8:9
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- while we
- Transliteration
- wanaḥnu
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- —
- Part of speech
- Pronoun (PRON)
- Features
- person: 1number: plural
Sub-word segments
- وَprefix · CIRC
- نَحْنُstem · 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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese 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 wrongWhen 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 aberrationWhen 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 erredWhen 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 errorSame form · 15 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form وَنَحْنُ appears 15 times in the corpus.
- وَنَحْنُ2:30:18
- وَنَحْنُ2:133:25
- وَنَحْنُ2:136:29
- وَنَحْنُ2:138:8
- وَنَحْنُ2:139:12
- وَنَحْنُ2:247:17
- وَنَحْنُ3:84:27
- وَنَحْنُ3:181:10
- وَنَحْنُ9:52:8
- وَنَحْنُ12:14:5
- وَنَحْنُ15:23:5
- وَنَحْنُ29:46:23
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