لَقَدْكَانَفِىقَصَصِهِمْعِبْرَةٌلِّأُو۟لِىٱلْأَلْبَٰبِمَاكَانَحَدِيثًايُفْتَرَىٰوَلَٰكِنتَصْدِيقَٱلَّذِىبَيْنَيَدَيْهِوَتَفْصِيلَكُلِّشَىْءٍوَهُدًىوَرَحْمَةًلِّقَوْمٍيُؤْمِنُونَ
Reference 12:111Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:111:8
مَا
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- مَا Quranic text
- Simple
- مَا
- Without tashkeel
- ما
- Normalised (searchable)
- ما
Position
Computed- Surah
- 12 · Joseph
- Verse
- 12:111
- Word in verse
- 8
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:111:8
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- Not
- Transliteration
- mā
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- ما
- Part of speech
- Negative particle (NEG)
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- مَاstem · NEG
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 1.1Joseph 12:111Quranic text
How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 12:111 — 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 →
In their stories is a lesson for those who possess intelligence. This is not a fabricated tale, but a confirmation of what came before it, and a detailed explanation of all things, and guidance, and mercy for people who believeIn their history verily there is a lesson for men of understanding. It is no invented story but a confirmation of the existing (Scripture) and a detailed explanation of everything, and a guidance and a mercy for folk who believeCertainly in their histories is an example for men of understanding. This is no new tale of fiction, but a confirmation of previous scriptures, and an explanation of all things, and guidance and mercy to those who believeTheir stories were a lesson to those endowed with minds. It was not a tale forged, but a verification of what was before it, and a detailing of everything, and a guide and a mercy to a people who believeSame form · 714 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form مَا appears 714 times in the corpus.
- مَا2:17:8
- مَا2:30:26
- مَا2:32:7
- مَا2:33:18
- مَا2:57:11
- مَا2:63:12
- مَا2:68:7
- مَا2:68:22
- مَا2:69:7
- مَا2:70:7
- مَا2:75:16
- مَا2:77:6
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