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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:71:4

مَّاذَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
12:71
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:71:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
mādhā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ماذا
Part of speech
Interrogative (INTG)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. مَّاذَاstem · INTG

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 12:71 — 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 →

They said, as they came towards them, “What are you missing?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
They cried, coming toward them: What is it ye have lost
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They turned back to them and said, "What is that ye miss
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They said, approaching them, 'What is it that ye miss
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 3 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form مَّاذَا appears 3 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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