Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:8:7

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: 16:8
Word in verse: 7
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:8:7

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: what
Transliteration: mā

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

Sub-word segments

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 16:8Quranic text

وَٱلْخَيْلَ وَٱلْبِغَالَ وَٱلْحَمِيرَ لِتَرْكَبُوهَا وَزِينَةً وَيَخْلُقُ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

← وَيَخْلُقُ 16:8:6 لَا 16:8:8 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 16:8 — 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 the horses, and the mules, and the donkeys—for you to ride, and for luxury. And He creates what you do not know

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

And horses and mules and asses (hath He created) that ye may ride them, and for ornament. And He createth that which ye know not

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And He hath given you horses, mules, and asses, that ye may ride them, and for your ornament: and things of which ye have no knowledge hath he created

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

And horses too, and mules, and asses, for you to ride upon and for an ornament.- He creates also what ye know not of

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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