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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 28:23:9

ٱلنَّاسِ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
ٱلنَّاسِ Quranic text
Simple
النَّاسِ
Without tashkeel
ٱلناس
Normalised (searchable)
الناس

Position

Computed
Verse
28:23
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:28:23:9

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
men
Transliteration
l-nāsi
Lemma
ناس
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GENgender: Mnumber: plural

Sub-word segments

  1. ٱلprefix · DET
  2. نَّاسِstem · N · أ ن س

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 28:23 — 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 →

And when he arrived at the waters of Median, he found there a crowd of people drawing water, and he noticed two women waiting on the side. He said, “What is the matter with you?” They said, “We cannot draw water until the shepherds depart, and our father is a very old man.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And when he came unto the water of Midian he found there a whole tribe of men, watering. And he found apart from them two women keeping back (their flocks). He said: What aileth you? The two said: We cannot give (our flocks) to drink till the shepherds return from the water; and our father is a very old man
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And when he arrived at the water of Madian, he found at it a company of men watering. And he found beside them, two women keeping back their flock: "Why do ye," said he, "thus?" They said "We shall not water till the shepherds shall have driven off; for our father is very aged
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And when he went down to the water of Midian he found thereat a nation of people watering their flocks. And he found beside them two women keeping back their flocks. Said he, 'What is your design?' They said, 'We cannot water our flocks until the herdsmen have finished; for our father is a very old man
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 92 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form ٱلنَّاسِ appears 92 times in the corpus.

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Root أ ن س · 338 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root أ ن س occurs 338 times across 27 distinct forms.

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