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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:16:6

فَمَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
2 · The Cow
Verse
2:16
Word in verse
6
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:16:6

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
So not
Transliteration
famā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ما
Part of speech
Negative particle (NEG)
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. فَprefix · REM
  2. مَاstem · NEG

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 2:16 — 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 →

Those are they who have bartered error for guidance; but their trade does not profit them, and they are not guided
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
These are they who purchase error at the price of guidance, so their commerce doth not prosper, neither are they guided
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
These are they who have purchased error at the price of guidance: but their traffic hath not been gainful, neither are they guided at all
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Those who buy error for guidance, their traffic profits not, and they are not guided
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 71 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form فَمَا appears 71 times in the corpus.

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Community

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