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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:69:6

مَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
20:69
Word in verse
6
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:69:6

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. 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 · 5 editions

These translations render verse 20:69 — 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 →

Now throw down what is in your right hand—it will swallow what they have crafted. What they have crafted is only a magician’s trickery. But the magician will not succeed, no matter what he does.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Throw that which is in thy right hand! It will eat up that which they have made. Lo! that which they have made is but a wizard's artifice, and a wizard shall not be successful to whatever point (of skill) he may attain
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Cast forth then what is in thy right hand: it shall swallow up what they have produced: they have only produced the deceit of an enchanter: and come where he may, ill shall an enchanter fare
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Throw down what is in thy right hand; and it shall devour what they have made. Verily, what they have made is but a magician's trick; and no magician shall prosper wherever he comes
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
and cast what in your right hand he swallows up what they fashioned only they fashioned scheme of sorcerer and not he succeeds the sorcerer where he came to

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Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0How this was produced

Same form · 714 occurrences

Computed

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

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