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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:103:5

إِنَّمَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
إِنَّمَا Quranic text
Simple
إِنَّمَا
Without tashkeel
إنما
Normalised (searchable)
انما

Position

Computed
Verse
16:103
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:103:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
"Only
Transliteration
innamā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
إِنّ
Part of speech
Accusative particle (ACC)
Features
family: إِنّ

Sub-word segments

  1. إِنَّstem · ACC
  2. مَاstem · PREV

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 16:103 — 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 →

We are well aware that they say, “It is a human being who is teaching him.” But the tongue of him they allude to is foreign, while this is a clear Arabic tongue
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And We know well that they say: Only a man teacheth him. The speech of him at whom they falsely hint is outlandish, and this is clear Arabic speech
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
We also know that they say, "Surely a certain person teacheth him." But the tongue of him at whom they hint is foreign, while this Koran is in the plain Arabic
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
We knew that they said, 'It is only some mortal who teaches him.' - The tongue of him they lean towards is barbarous, and this is plain Arabic
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 85 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form إِنَّمَا appears 85 times in the corpus.

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Community

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