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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:21:6

أَيَّانَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَيَّانَ Quranic text
Simple
أَيَّانَ
Without tashkeel
أيان
Normalised (searchable)
ايان

Position

Computed
Surah
16 · The Bee
Verse
16:21
Word in verse
6
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:21:6

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
when
Transliteration
ayyāna
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
أَيّان
Part of speech
Interrogative (INTG)
Features
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Sub-word segments

  1. أَيَّانَstem · INTG

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 · 5 editions

These translations render verse 16:21 — 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 →

They are dead, not alive; and they do not know when they will be resurrected
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
(They are) dead, not living. And they know not when they will be raised
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Dead are they, lifeless! and they know not When they shall be raised
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Dead, not living, nor can they perceive! When shall they be raised
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
deads other than livings and not they sense when are raised up

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.

Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0How this was produced

Same form · 6 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَيَّانَ appears 6 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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