Skip to content
quranbench
Search
Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 36:40:5

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
36 · Yaseen
Verse
36:40
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:36:40:5

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 36:40 — 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 →

The sun is not to overtake the moon, nor is the night to outpace the day. Each floats in an orbit
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float each in an orbit
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
To the Sun it is not given to overtake the Moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day; but each in its own sphere doth journey on
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Neither is it proper for it to catch up the moon, nor for the night to outstrip the day, but each one floats on in its sky
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 461 occurrences

Computed

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

View all 461 occurrences in search →

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

No published investigation cites this word yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.