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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 37:11:5

أَم

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَم Quranic text
Simple
أَم
Without tashkeel
أم
Normalised (searchable)
ام

Position

Computed
Verse
37:11
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:37:11:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
or
Transliteration
am
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
أَم
Part of speech
Conjunction (CONJ)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. أَمstem · CONJ

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 37:11 — 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 →

Inquire of them, “Are they more difficult to create, or the others We created?” We created them from sticky clay
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Then ask them (O Muhammad): Are they stronger as a creation, or those (others) whom we have created? Lo! We created them of plastic clay
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Ask the Meccans then, Are they, or the angels whom we have made, the stronger creation? Aye, of coarse clay have we created them
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Ask them whether they are stronger by nature or (the angels) whom we have created? We have created them of sticky clay
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 7 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَم appears 7 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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