مَا — Quran 2:80:21

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: 2:80
Word in verse: 21
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:80:21

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

مَاstem · REL

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Cow 2:80Quranic text

وَقَالُوا۟لَن تَمَسَّنَا ٱلنَّارُ إِلَّآ أَيَّامًا مَّعْدُودَةً قُلْ أَتَّخَذْتُمْ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ عَهْدًا فَلَن يُخْلِفَ ٱللَّهُ عَهْدَهُۥٓ أَمْ تَقُولُونَ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 2:80 — 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 they say, “The Fire will not touch us except for a number of days.” Say, “Have you received a promise from God—God never breaks His promise—or are you saying about God what you do not know?”

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

And they say: The Fire (of punishment) will not touch us save for a certain number of days. Say: Have ye received a covenant from Allah - truly Allah will not break His covenant - or tell ye concerning Allah that which ye know not

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And they say, "Hell fire shall not touch us, but for a few days: "SAY: Have ye received such a promise from God? for God will not revoke his promise: or, Speak ye of God that which ye know not

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

And then they say, 'Hell fire shall not touch us save for a number of days.' Say, 'Have ye taken a covenant with God?' but God breaks not His covenant. Or do ye say of God that which ye do not know

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 714 occurrences

Computed

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

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