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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 72:5:1

وَأَنَّا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
وَأَنَّا Quranic text
Simple
وَأَنَّا
Without tashkeel
وأنا
Normalised (searchable)
وانا

Position

Computed
Verse
72:5
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:72:5:1

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. أَنَّstem · ACC
  3. اsuffix · 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 72:5 — 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 we thought that humans and jinn would never utter lies about God
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And lo! we had supposed that humankind and jinn would not speak a lie concerning Allah
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And we verily thought that no one amongst men or Djinn would have uttered a lie against God
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And we thought that men and ginn would never speak a lie against God
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 8 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَأَنَّا appears 8 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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