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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 23:83:3

نَحْنُ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
نَحْنُ Quranic text
Simple
نَحْنُ
Without tashkeel
نحن
Normalised (searchable)
نحن

Position

Computed
Verse
23:83
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:23:83:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
[we]
Transliteration
naḥnu
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
Part of speech
Pronoun (PRON)
Features
person: 1number: plural

Sub-word segments

  1. نَحْنُstem · PRON

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 23:83 — 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 were promised this before—we and our ancestors—these are nothing but legends of the ancients.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
We were already promised this, we and our forefathers. Lo! this is naught but fables of the men of old
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
This have we been promised, we and our fathers aforetime: but it is only fables of the ancients
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
We have been promised this, and our fathers too, before;- this is naught but old folks' tales
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 55 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form نَحْنُ appears 55 times in the corpus.

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Community

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