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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:73:5

مَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
16:73
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:73:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
which
Transliteration
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 16:73 — 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 yet they serve besides God what possesses no provisions for them in the heavens, nor on earth, nor are they capable
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And they worship beside Allah that which owneth no provision whatsoever for them from the heavens or the earth, nor have they (whom they worship) any power
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And they worship beside God those who neither out of the Heavens or Earth can provide them a particle of food, and have no power in themselves
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And they serve beside God what cannot control for them any provision from the heavens or the earth, and have no power at all
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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Community

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