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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 25:44:9

هُمْ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
25:44
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:25:44:9

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
they
Transliteration
hum
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
Part of speech
Pronoun (PRON)
Features
person: 3gender: Mnumber: plural

Sub-word segments

  1. هُمْstem · 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 25:44 — 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 →

Or do you assume that most of them hear or understand? They are just like cattle, but even more errant in their way
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Or deemest thou that most of them hear or understand? They are but as the cattle - nay, but they are farther astray
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Thinkest thou that the greater part of them hear or understand? They are just like the brutes! Yes! they stray even further from the right way
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
or dost thou reckon that most of them will hear or understand? they are only like the cattle, nay, they err more from the way
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 144 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form هُمْ appears 144 times in the corpus.

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Community

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