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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 79:46:1

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
79:46
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:79:46:1

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 79:46 — 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 →

On the Day when they witness it—as though they only stayed an evening, or its morning
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
On the day when they behold it, it will be as if they had but tarried for an evening or the morn thereof
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
On the day when they shall see it, it shall seem to them as though they had not tarried in the tomb, longer than its evening or its morn
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
On the day they see it, it will be as though they had only tarried an evening or the noon thereof
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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