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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:66:3

لِّمَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
2:66
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:66:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
limā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ما
Part of speech
Relative pronoun (REL)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. لِّprefix · P
  2. 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 2:66 — 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 →

Thus We made it a deterrent for their generation, and for subsequent generations, and a lesson for the righteous
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And We made it an example to their own and to succeeding generations, and an admonition to the Allah-fearing
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And we made them a warning to those of their day, and to those who came after them, and a caution to the God-fearing
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Thus we made them an example unto those who stood before them, and those who should come after them, and a warning unto those who fear
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 21 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لِّمَا appears 21 times in the corpus.

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Community

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