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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:78:8

وَإِنْ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
وَإِنْ Quranic text
Simple
وَإِنْ
Without tashkeel
وإن
Normalised (searchable)
وان

Position

Computed
Verse
2:78
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:78:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
and not
Transliteration
wa-in
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
إِن
Part of speech
Negative particle (NEG)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · REM
  2. إِنْstem · NEG

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 2:78 — 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 among them are uneducated who know the Scripture only through hearsay, and they only speculate
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Among them are unlettered folk who know the Scripture not except from hearsay. They but guess
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
But there are illiterates among them who are unacquainted with the Book, but with lies only, and have but vague fancies
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And some of them there are, illiterate folk, that know not the Book, but only idle tales; for they do but fancy
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 19 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَإِنْ appears 19 times in the corpus.

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