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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 38:63:3

أَمْ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
38:63
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:38:63:3

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. أَمْstem · 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 38:63 — 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 →

Did we take them for mockery, or have our eyes swerved from them
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Did we take them (wrongly) for a laughing-stock, or have our eyes missed them
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Whom we used to treat with scorn? Have they escaped our eyes
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
whom we used to take for mockery? have our eyes escaped them
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 103 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَمْ appears 103 times in the corpus.

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