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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:13:4

لِمَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
20:13
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:13:4

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. لِprefix · 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 20:13 — 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 →

I have chosen you, so listen to what is revealed
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And I have chosen thee, so hearken unto that which is inspired
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And I have chosen thee: hearken then to what shall be revealed
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
and I have chosen thee. So listen to what is inspired thee
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 12 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لِمَا appears 12 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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