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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 43:18:5

وَهُوَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
43:18
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:43:18:5

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. 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 43:18 — 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 →

“Someone brought up to be beautiful, and unable to help in a fight?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
(Liken they then to Allah) that which is bred up in outward show, and in dispute cannot make itself plain
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
What! make they a being to be the offspring of God who is brought up among trinkets, and is ever contentious without reason
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
What! one brought up amongst ornaments, and who is always in contention without obvious cause
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 171 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَهُوَ appears 171 times in the corpus.

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