The Family of Imraan 3:40Quranic text
قَالَرَبِّأَنَّىٰيَكُونُلِىغُلَٰمٌوَقَدْبَلَغَنِىَٱلْكِبَرُوَٱمْرَأَتِىعَاقِرٌقَالَكَذَٰلِكَٱللَّهُيَفْعَلُمَايَشَآءُ
Reference 3:40Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:40:3
أَنَّىٰ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- أَنَّىٰ Quranic text
- Simple
- أَنَّىٰ
- Without tashkeel
- أنى
- Normalised (searchable)
- اني
Position
Computed- Verse
- 3:40
- Word in verse
- 3
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:40:3
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- how
- Transliteration
- annā
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- أَنَّى
- Part of speech
- Interrogative (INTG)
- Features
- case: ACC
Sub-word segments
- أَنَّىٰstem · INTG
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In context
Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 3:40 — 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 →
He said, “My Lord, how will I have a son, when old age has overtaken me, and my wife is barren?” He said, “Even so, God does whatever He wills.”He said: My Lord! How can I have a son when age hath overtaken me already and my wife is barren? (The angel) answered: So (it will be). Allah doeth what He willHe said, "O my Lord! how shall I have a son, now that old age hath come upon me, and my wife is barren?" He said, "Thus will God do His pleasureHe said, 'My Lord, how can there be to me a boy when old age has reached me, and my wife is barren?' Said he, 'Thus God does what He pleasethSame form · 15 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form أَنَّىٰ appears 15 times in the corpus.
- أَنَّىٰ2:223:6
- أَنَّىٰ2:247:12
- أَنَّىٰ2:259:11
- أَنَّىٰ3:37:20
- أَنَّىٰ3:47:3
- أَنَّىٰ3:165:8
- أَنَّىٰ5:75:24
- أَنَّىٰ6:101:4
- أَنَّىٰ9:30:22
- أَنَّىٰ19:8:3
- أَنَّىٰ19:20:2
- أَنَّىٰ40:69:9
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