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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:28:5

أَنفُسِهِمْ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَنفُسِهِمْ Quranic text
Simple
أَنفُسِهِمْ
Without tashkeel
أنفسهم
Normalised (searchable)
انفسهم

Position

Computed
Verse
16:28
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:28:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
anfusihim
Lemma
نَفْس
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GENgender: Fnumber: plural

Sub-word segments

  1. أَنفُسِstem · N · ن ف س
  2. هِمْsuffix · 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 16:28 — 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 →

Those wronging their souls while the angels are taking them away—they will propose peace: “We did no wrong.” Yes you did. God is aware of what you used to do.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Whom the angels cause to die while they are wronging themselves. Then will they make full submission (saying): We used not to do any wrong. Nay! Surely Allah is Knower of what ye used to do
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
The sinners against their own souls whom the angels shall cause to die will proffer the submission, "No evil have we done." Nay! God knoweth what ye have wrought
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Those whom the angels took away were wronging themselves; then they offered peace: 'We have done no evil.' - 'Yea! verily, God knows what ye did
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 23 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَنفُسِهِمْ appears 23 times in the corpus.

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Root ن ف س · 298 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ن ف س occurs 298 times across 77 distinct forms.

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