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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 39:15:17

هُوَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
هُوَ Quranic text
Simple
هُوَ
Without tashkeel
هو
Normalised (searchable)
هو

Position

Computed
Verse
39:15
Word in verse
17
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:39:15:17

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
it
Transliteration
huwa
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
Part of speech
Pronoun (PRON)
Features
person: 3gender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

  1. هُوَstem · PRON

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 39:15 — 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 you can worship whatever you wish besides Him.” Say, “The losers are those who lose their souls and their people on the Day of Resurrection.” That is indeed the obvious loss
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Then worship what ye will beside Him. Say: The losers will be those who lose themselves and their housefolk on the Day of Resurrection. Ah, that will be the manifest loss
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And serve ye what ye choose beside Him. SAY: The losers truly will they be who shall lose their own souls and their families on the day of resurrection: Is not this the clear ruin
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
serve then what ye will beside Him!' Say, 'Verily, the losers are those who lose themselves and their families on the resurrection day. Aye, that is the obvious loss
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 265 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form هُوَ appears 265 times in the corpus.

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