The Cow 2:69Quranic text
قَالُوا۟ٱدْعُلَنَارَبَّكَيُبَيِّنلَّنَامَالَوْنُهَاقَالَإِنَّهُۥيَقُولُإِنَّهَابَقَرَةٌصَفْرَآءُفَاقِعٌلَّوْنُهَاتَسُرُّٱلنَّٰظِرِينَ
Reference 2:69Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:69:7
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
- 2 · The Cow
- Verse
- 2:69
- Word in verse
- 7
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:69:7
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- what
- Transliteration
- mā
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- ما
- Part of speech
- Interrogative (INTG)
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- مَاstem · INTG
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 2:69 — 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 →
They said, “Call upon your Lord to show us what her color is.” He said, “He says she is a yellow heifer, bright in color, pleasing to the beholders.”They said: Pray for us unto thy Lord that He make clear to us of what colour she is. (Moses) answered: Lo! He saith: Verily she is a yellow cow. Bright is her colour, gladdening beholdersThey said, "Call on your Lord for us, that he would make plain to us what is her colour." He said, "God saith, 'She is a fawn-coloured cow; her colour is very bright; she rejoiceth the beholdersThey said, 'Pray now thy Lord to show us what her colour is to be.' He answered, 'He saith it is a dun cow, intensely dun, her colour delighting those who look upon herSame form · 714 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form مَا appears 714 times in the corpus.
- مَا2:17:8
- مَا2:30:26
- مَا2:32:7
- مَا2:33:18
- مَا2:57:11
- مَا2:63:12
- مَا2:68:7
- مَا2:68:22
- مَا2:70:7
- مَا2:75:16
- مَا2:77:6
- مَا2:80:21
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