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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 23:89:4

فَأَنَّىٰ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
فَأَنَّىٰ Quranic text
Simple
فَأَنَّىٰ
Without tashkeel
فأنى
Normalised (searchable)
فاني

Position

Computed
Surah
23 · The Believers
Verse
23:89
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:23:89:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
"Then how
Transliteration
fa-annā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
أَنَّى
Part of speech
Interrogative (INTG)
Features
case: ACC

Sub-word segments

  1. فَprefix · REM
  2. أَنَّىٰstem · INTG

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 23:89 — 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 →

They will say, “To God.” Say, “Then are you bewitched?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
They will say: Unto Allah (all that belongeth). Say: How then are ye bewitched
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They will answer, "In God's." SAY: How, then, can ye be so spell-bound
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They will say, 'God's.' Say, 'Then how can ye be so infatuated
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 11 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form فَأَنَّىٰ appears 11 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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