Abstract – This study was conducted to investigate the holly Quran and its four English translations by Arberry (1991), Pickthall (1963), Shakir (1999), and Yusuf Ali (1983). The aim was to identify the translation strategies applied by different translators in rendering the Quranic puns from Arabic into English in terms of Delabastitaʼs (1996) strategies and to determine the most frequently used strategy in each translation and also to identify what types of English puns were produced by the translators in target text according to Delabastita᾿s (1993) typology of horizontal puns. Twenty Surahs in the holly Quran were selected randomly. The study was done on two types of the Quranic puns called “Tam1 and Naqis2”. First, the data were collected. Then descriptive method was used to analyze data. Finally, the frequency and percentage of strategies applied by each translator were calculated. The results indicated that the “pun to pun, pun to non-pun, pun to related rhetorical device, editorial techniques and pun to zero” strategies were applied by translators to translate the puns. In addition, “pun to non-pun” was the most frequently used strategy by all translators. Also, the “homonymic” pun was the only English pun recreated by the translators in the target text. Keywords: Quran, Pun, Strategy, Translation

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