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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 32:20:8

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
32 · The Prostration
Verse
32:20
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:32:20:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
to
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 32:20 — 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 as for those who transgressed, their shelter is the Fire. Every time they try to get out of it, they will be brought back into it, and it will be said to them, “Taste the suffering of the Fire which you used to deny.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And as for those who do evil, their retreat is the Fire. Whenever they desire to issue forth from thence, they are brought back thither. Unto them it is said: Taste the torment of the Fire which ye used to deny
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
But as for those who grossly sin, their abode shall be the fire: so oft as they shall desire to escape out of it, back shall they be turned into it. And it shall be said to them, Taste ye the torment of the fire, which ye treated as a lie
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
But as for those who commit abomination their resort is the Fire. Every time that they desire to go forth therefrom, we will send them back therein, and it will be said to them, 'Taste ye the torment of the fire which ye did call a lie
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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