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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:64:3

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
18 · The Cave
Verse
18:64
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:64:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(is) 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 · 5 editions

These translations render verse 18:64 — 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 →

He said, “This is what we were seeking.” And so they turned back retracing their steps
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He said: This is that which we have been seeking. So they retraced their steps again
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
He said, "It is this we were in quest of." And they both went back retracing their footsteps
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said he, 'This is what we were searching for.' So they turned back upon their footsteps, following them up
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
he said that what We were We seek after they two turned back from upon their traces the narration

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.

Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0How this was produced

Same form · 714 occurrences

Computed

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

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Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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