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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:109:10

أَم

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَم Quranic text
Simple
أَم
Without tashkeel
أم
Normalised (searchable)
ام

Position

Computed
Verse
21:109
Word in verse
10
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:109:10

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. أَمstem · 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 21:109 — 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 →

But if they turn away, say, “I have informed you sufficiently. Although I do not know whether what you are promised is near or far.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
But if they are averse, then say: I have warned you all alike, although I know not whether nigh or far is that which ye are promised
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
But if they turn their backs, then SAY: I have warned you all alike; but I know not whether that with which ye are threatened be nigh or distant
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
But if they turn their backs say, 'I have proclaimed (war) against all alike, but I know not if what ye are threatened with be near or far
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 7 occurrences

Computed

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

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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