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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 6:8:11

ثُمَّ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
6:8
Word in verse
11
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:6:8:11

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
then
Transliteration
thumma
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ثُمّ
Part of speech
Conjunction (CONJ)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. ثُمَّstem · CONJ

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 6:8 — 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 →

And they say, “Why was an angel not sent down to him.” Had We sent down an angel, the matter would have been settled, and they would not have been reprieved
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
They say: Why hath not an angel been sent down unto him? If We sent down an angel, then the matter would be judged; no further time would be allowed them (for reflection)
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They say, too, "Unless an angel be sent down to him. . . ." But if we had sent down an angel, their judgment would have come on them at once, and they would have had no respite
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They say, 'Why has not an angel been sent down to him?' but if we had sent down an angel, the affair would have been decided, and then they would have had no respite
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 337 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form ثُمَّ appears 337 times in the corpus.

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