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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:81:12

بِمَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
12 · Joseph
Verse
12:81
Word in verse
12
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:81:12

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
of what
Transliteration
bimā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ما
Part of speech
Relative pronoun (REL)
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. بِprefix · P
  2. مَاstem · REL

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 12:81 — 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 →

“Go back to your father, and say, ‘Our father, your son has stolen. We testify only to what we know, and we could not have prevented the unforeseen.’”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Return unto your father and say: O our father! Lo! thy son hath stolen. We testify only to that which we know; we are not guardians of the Unseen
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Return ye to your father and say, 'O our father! Verily, thy son hath stolen: we bear witness only of what we know: we could not guard against the unforeseen
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Return ye to your father and say, "O our father! verily, thy son has committed theft, and we bore testimony to naught but what we knew; for of the unforeseen we were not keepers
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 253 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form بِمَا appears 253 times in the corpus.

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