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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 7:115:6

وَإِمَّآ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
وَإِمَّآ Quranic text
Simple
وَإِمَّآ
Without tashkeel
وإما
Normalised (searchable)
واما

Position

Computed
Surah
7 · The Heights
Verse
7:115
Word in verse
6
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:7:115:6

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
or Whether
Transliteration
wa-immā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
إِمّا
Part of speech
EXL
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. إِمَّآstem · EXL

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 7:115 — 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 →

They said, “O Moses! Either you throw, or we are the ones to throw.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
They said: O Moses! Either throw (first) or let us be the first throwers
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They said, "O Moses! either cast thou down thy rod first, or we will cast down ours
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They said, 'O Moses! wilt thou cast down (thy rod) or shall we be (first) to throw
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 3 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَإِمَّآ appears 3 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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