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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:135:4

أَوْ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَوْ Quranic text
Simple
أَوْ
Without tashkeel
أو
Normalised (searchable)
او

Position

Computed
Verse
2:135
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:135:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
or
Transliteration
aw
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
أَو
Part of speech
Conjunction (CONJ)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. أَوْstem · CONJ

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 2:135 — 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 they say, “Be Jews or Christians, and you will be guided.” Say, “Rather, the religion of Abraham, the Monotheist; he was not an idolater.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And they say: Be Jews or Christians, then ye will be rightly guided. Say (unto them, O Muhammad): Nay, but (we follow) the religion of Abraham, the upright, and he was not of the idolaters
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They say, moreover, "Become Jews or Christians that ye may have the true guidance." SAY: Nay! the religion of Abraham, the sound in faith, and not one of those who join gods with God
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They say, 'Be ye Jews or Christians so shall ye of Abraham be guided.' Say, 'Not so! but the faith of Abraham the 'Hanif, be was not of the idolaters
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 263 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَوْ appears 263 times in the corpus.

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