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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:34:3

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
16 · The Bee
Verse
16:34
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:34:3

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. 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 16:34 — 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 →

So the evils of their deeds assailed them, and what they used to ridicule engulfed them
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
So that the evils of what they did smote them, and that which they used to mock surrounded them
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And the ill which they had done recoiled upon them, and that which they had scoffed at encompassed them round about
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And the evil which they had done befell them, and that environed them at which they used to mock
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 714 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form مَا appears 714 times in the corpus.

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