See ذو النون on Wiktionary
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"english": "And the man of the nūn, when he went off in fury and opined that We would not decree upon him. And he cried in the glooms “there is no god short of You, exalted are You. Indeed I have been of the wrongdoers.”",
"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 21:87:",
"roman": "waḏā n-nūni ʔiḏ ḏahaba muḡāḍiban faẓanna ʔan lan naqdira ʕalayhi fanādā fī ẓ-ẓulumāti ʔan lā ʔilāha ʔillā ʔanta subḥānaka ʔinnī kuntu mina ẓ-ẓālimīna",
"text": "وَذَا النُّونِ إِذ ذَّهَبَ مُغٰضِبًا فَظَنَّ أَن لَّن نَّقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ فَنَادَى فِي الظُّلُمَاتِ أَن لَّا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ سُبْحٰنَكَ إِنِّي كُنْتُ مِنَ الظّٰلِمِينَ",
"translation": "And the man of the nūn, when he went off in fury and opined that We would not decree upon him. And he cried in the glooms “there is no god short of You, exalted are You. Indeed I have been of the wrongdoers.”",
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"Dhu'n-Nun, epithet of Jonah"
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}
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"word": "ذو النون"
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"text": "وَذَا النُّونِ إِذ ذَّهَبَ مُغٰضِبًا فَظَنَّ أَن لَّن نَّقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ فَنَادَى فِي الظُّلُمَاتِ أَن لَّا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ سُبْحٰنَكَ إِنِّي كُنْتُ مِنَ الظّٰلِمِينَ",
"translation": "And the man of the nūn, when he went off in fury and opined that We would not decree upon him. And he cried in the glooms “there is no god short of You, exalted are You. Indeed I have been of the wrongdoers.”",
"type": "quotation"
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}
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"word": "ذو النون"
}
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