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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 8:31:12

هَٰذَآ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
8:31
Word in verse
12
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:8:31:12

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
this.
Transliteration
hādhā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ذا
Part of speech
Demonstrative (DEM)
Features
gender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

  1. هَٰprefix · ATT
  2. ذَآstem · DEM

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 8:31 — 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 when Our revelations are recited to them, they say, “We have heard. Had we wanted, we could have said the like of this; these are nothing but myths of the ancients.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And when Our revelations are recited unto them they say: We have heard. If we wish we can speak the like of this. Lo! this is naught but fables of the men of old
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And oft as our signs were rehearsed to them, they said, "Now have we heard: if we pleased we could certainly utter its like! Yes, it is mere tales of the ancients
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
But when our verses were rehearsed to them they said, 'We have already heard.- If we pleased we could speak like this; verily, this is nothing but tales of those of yore
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 34 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form هَٰذَآ appears 34 times in the corpus.

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Community

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