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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:38:5

فَإِمَّا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
فَإِمَّا Quranic text
Simple
فَإِمَّا
Without tashkeel
فإما
Normalised (searchable)
فاما

Position

Computed
Surah
2 · The Cow
Verse
2:38
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:38:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
and when,
Transliteration
fa-immā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
إِمّا
Part of speech
COND
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. فَprefix · REM
  2. إِمَّاstem · COND

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 2:38 — 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 →

We said, “Go down from it, all of you. Yet whenever guidance comes to you from Me, then whoever follows My guidance—they have nothing to fear, nor shall they grieve
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
We said: Go down, all of you, from hence; but verily there cometh unto you from Me a guidance; and whoso followeth My guidance, there shall no fear come upon them neither shall they grieve
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
We said, "Get ye down from it, all together: and if Guidance shall come to you from me, whoso shall follow my guidance, on them shall come no fear, neither shall they be grieved
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
We said, 'Go down therefrom altogether and haply there may come from me a guidance, and whoso follows my guidance, no fear is theirs, nor shall they grieve
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 7 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form فَإِمَّا appears 7 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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