Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:56:2

لِمَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): لِمَا Quranic text
Simple: لِمَا
Without tashkeel: لما
Normalised (searchable): لما

Position

Computed

Surah: 16 · The Bee
Verse: 16:56
Word in verse: 2
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:56:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: to what
Transliteration: limā

Root: none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma: ما
Part of speech: Relative pronoun (REL)
Features: —

Sub-word segments

لِprefix · P
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

The Bee 16:56Quranic text

وَيَجْعَلُونَ لِمَا لَا يَعْلَمُونَ نَصِيبًا مِّمَّا رَزَقْنَٰهُمْ تَٱللَّهِ لَتُسْـَٔلُنَّ عَمَّا كُنتُمْ تَفْتَرُونَ

← وَيَجْعَلُونَ 16:56:1 لَا 16:56:3 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 16:56 — 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 they allocate, to something they do not know, a share of what We have provided for them. By God, you will be questioned about what you have been inventing

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

And they assign a portion of that which We have given them unto what they know not. By Allah! but ye will indeed be asked concerning (all) that ye used to invent

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And for idols, of which they know nothing, they set apart a share of our bounties! By God ye shall be called to account for your devices

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

And they set aside for what they know not a portion of what we have bestowed upon them.- By God! ye shall be questioned concerning that which ye have devised

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 12 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لِمَا appears 12 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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