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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:72:8

مَّا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
2 · The Cow
Verse
2:72
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:72:8

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. مَّاstem · 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 2:72 — 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 →

And recall when you killed a person, and disputed in the matter; but God was to expose what you were hiding
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And (remember) when ye slew a man and disagreed concerning it and Allah brought forth that which ye were hiding
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And when ye slew a man, and strove among yourselves about him, God brought to light what he had hidden
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
When too ye slew a soul and disputed thereupon, and God brought forth that which ye had hidden
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 162 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form مَّا appears 162 times in the corpus.

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Community

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