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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:21:4

وَمَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
16:21
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:21:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
And not
Transliteration
wamā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ما
Part of speech
Negative particle (NEG)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 16:21 — 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 are dead, not alive; and they do not know when they will be resurrected
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
(They are) dead, not living. And they know not when they will be raised
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Dead are they, lifeless! and they know not When they shall be raised
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Dead, not living, nor can they perceive! When shall they be raised
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 512 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَمَا appears 512 times in the corpus.

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