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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 27:56:6

أَن

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَن Quranic text
Simple
أَن
Without tashkeel
أن
Normalised (searchable)
ان

Position

Computed
Surah
27 · The Ant
Verse
27:56
Word in verse
6
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:27:56:6

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
that
Transliteration
an
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
أَن
Part of speech
SUB
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. أَنstem · SUB

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 27:56 — 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 the only response of his people was to say, “Expel the family of Lot from your town. They are purist people.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
But the answer of his folk was naught save that they said: Expel the household of Lot from your township, for they (forsooth) are folk who would keep clean
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And the answer of his people was but to say, "Cast out the family of Lot from your city: they, forsooth, are men of purity
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
But the answer of his people was only to say, 'Drive out Lot's family from your city! verily, they are a folk who would keep pure
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 461 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَن appears 461 times in the corpus.

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Community

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