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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 53:9:5

أَدْنَىٰ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَدْنَىٰ Quranic text
Simple
أَدْنَىٰ
Without tashkeel
أدنى
Normalised (searchable)
ادني

Position

Computed
Verse
53:9
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:53:9:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
nearer.
Transliteration
adnā
Lemma
أَدْنَى
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCgender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

  1. أَدْنَىٰstem · N · د ن و

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 53:9 — 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 →

He was within two bows’ length, or closer
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Till he was (distant) two bows' length or even nearer
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And was at the distance of two bows, or even closer
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
until he was two bows length off or nigher still
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 4 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَدْنَىٰ appears 4 times in the corpus.

Root د ن و · 133 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root د ن و occurs 133 times across 12 distinct forms.

See the full root page for د ن و

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