The Cave 18:12Quranic text
ثُمَّبَعَثْنَٰهُمْلِنَعْلَمَأَىُّٱلْحِزْبَيْنِأَحْصَىٰلِمَالَبِثُوٓا۟أَمَدًا
Reference 18:12Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:12:7
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
- 18 · The Cave
- Verse
- 18:12
- Word in verse
- 7
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:12:7
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- for 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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 18:12 — 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 →
Then We awakened them to know which of the two groups could better calculate the length of their stayAnd afterward We raised them up that We might know which of the two parties would best calculate the time that they had tarriedThen we awaked them that we might know which of the two parties could best reckon the space of their abidingThen we raised them up again, that we might know which of the two crews could best calculate the time of their tarryingSame form · 12 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form لِمَا appears 12 times in the corpus.
Cited by 0 investigations
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