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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 19:20:2

أَنَّىٰ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَنَّىٰ Quranic text
Simple
أَنَّىٰ
Without tashkeel
أنى
Normalised (searchable)
اني

Position

Computed
Verse
19:20
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:19:20:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
"How
Transliteration
annā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
أَنَّى
Part of speech
Interrogative (INTG)
Features
case: ACC

Sub-word segments

  1. أَنَّىٰstem · 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 · 4 editions

These translations render verse 19:20 — 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 →

She said, “How can I have a son, when no man has touched me, and I was never unchaste?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
She said: How can I have a son when no mortal hath touched me, neither have I been unchaste
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
She said: "How shall I have a son, when man hath never touched me? and I am not unchaste
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said she, 'How can I have a boy when no man has touched me, and when I am no harlot
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 15 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَنَّىٰ appears 15 times in the corpus.

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Community

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