كَأَنَّهُمْ

Uthmani (as written)

كَأَنَّهُمْ Quranic text

Simple

كَأَنَّهُمْ

Without tashkeel

كأنهم

Normalised (searchable)

كانهم

Surah

54 · The Moon

Verse

54:20

Word in verse

3

Token id

quran:tanzil-uthmani:54:20:3

Gloss

as if they (were)

Transliteration

ka-annahum

Root

none — this word has no triliteral root

Lemma

كَأَنّ

Part of speech

Accusative particle (ACC)

Features

family: إِنّ

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.

These translations render verse 54:20 — 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 →

This exact written form كَأَنَّهُمْ appears 10 times in the corpus.

• كَأَنَّهُمْ2:101:20
• كَأَنَّهُمْ46:35:11
• كَأَنَّهُمْ52:24:5
• كَأَنَّهُمْ54:7:6
• كَأَنَّهُمْ63:4:9
• كَأَنَّهُمْ69:7:12
• كَأَنَّهُمْ70:43:6
• كَأَنَّهُمْ74:50:1
• كَأَنَّهُمْ79:46:1

No published investigation cites this word yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.