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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 17:79:8

أَن

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَن Quranic text
Simple
أَن
Without tashkeel
أن
Normalised (searchable)
ان

Position

Computed
Surah
17 · The Night Journey
Verse
17:79
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:17:79:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
that
Transliteration
an
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
أَن
Part of speech
SUB
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. أَنstem · SUB

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 17:79 — 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 →

And keep vigil with it during parts of the night, as an extra prayer. Perhaps your Lord will raise you to a laudable position
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And some part of the night awake for it, a largess for thee. It may be that thy Lord will raise thee to a praised estate
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And watch unto it in the night: this shall be an excess in service: it may be that thy Lord will raise thee to a glorious station
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And for the night, watch thou therein as an extra service. It may be that thy Lord will raise thee to a laudable station
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 461 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَن appears 461 times in the corpus.

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Community

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