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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:24:4

مَّاذَآ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
16 · The Bee
Verse
16:24
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:24:4

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. مَّاذَآstem · 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 16:24 — 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 →

And when it is said to them, “What has your Lord sent down?” They say, “Legends of the ancients.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And when it is said unto them: What hath your Lord revealed? they say: (Mere) fables of the men of old
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
For when it is said to them, "What is this your Lord hath sent down?" they say, "Fables of the ancients
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And when it is said to them, 'What is it that your Lord has sent down?' they say, 'Old folks' tales
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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