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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 54:7:6

كَأَنَّهُمْ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
كَأَنَّهُمْ Quranic text
Simple
كَأَنَّهُمْ
Without tashkeel
كأنهم
Normalised (searchable)
كانهم

Position

Computed
Verse
54:7
Word in verse
6
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:54:7:6

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
ka-annahum
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
كَأَنّ
Part of speech
Accusative particle (ACC)
Features
family: إِنّ

Sub-word segments

  1. كَأَنَّstem · ACC
  2. هُمْsuffix · 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 54:7 — 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 →

Their eyes humiliated, they will emerge from the graves, as if they were swarming locusts
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
With downcast eyes, they come forth from the graves as they were locusts spread abroad
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
With downcast eyes shall they come forth from their graves, as if they were scattered locusts
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Humbly casting down their looks shall they come forth from their graves, as though they were locusts scattered abroad
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 10 occurrences

Computed

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

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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