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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 55:58:1

كَأَنَّهُنَّ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
كَأَنَّهُنَّ Quranic text
Simple
كَأَنَّهُنَّ
Without tashkeel
كأنهن
Normalised (searchable)
كانهن

Position

Computed
Surah
55 · The Beneficent
Verse
55:58
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:55:58:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
As if they were
Transliteration
ka-annahunna
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. هُنَّsuffix · 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 55:58 — 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 →

As though they were rubies and corals
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
(In beauty) like the jacynth and the coral-stone
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Like jacynths and pearls
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
As though they were rubies and pearls
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 2 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَأَنَّهُنَّ appears 2 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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