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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 17:51:20

هُوَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
17:51
Word in verse
20
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:17:51:20

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
huwa
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
Part of speech
Pronoun (PRON)
Features
person: 3gender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

  1. هُوَstem · 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 17:51 — 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 →

Or some substance, which, in your minds, is even harder.” Then they will say, “Who will restore us?” Say, “The One who originated you the first time.” Then they will nod their heads at you, and say, “When will it be?” Say, “Perhaps it will be soon.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Or some created thing that is yet greater in your thoughts! Then they will say: Who shall bring us back (to life). Say: He Who created you at the first. Then will they shake their heads at thee, and say: When will it be? Say: It will perhaps be soon
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
or any other creature, to your seeming, yet harder to be raised." But they will say, "Who shall bring us back?" SAY: "He who created you at first." And they will wag their heads at thee, and say, "When shall this be?" SAY: "Haply it is nigh
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
or a creature, the greatest your breasts can conceive -!' Then they shall say, 'Who is to restore us?' Say, 'He who originated you at first;' and they will wag their heads and say, 'When will that be?' Say, 'It may, perhaps, be nigh
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 265 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form هُوَ appears 265 times in the corpus.

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