The Prophets 21:16Quranic text
وَمَاخَلَقْنَاٱلسَّمَآءَوَٱلْأَرْضَوَمَابَيْنَهُمَالَٰعِبِينَ
Reference 21:16Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:16:1
وَمَا
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- وَمَا Quranic text
- Simple
- وَمَا
- Without tashkeel
- وما
- Normalised (searchable)
- وما
Position
Computed- Surah
- 21 · The Prophets
- Verse
- 21:16
- Word in verse
- 1
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:16:1
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- And not
- Transliteration
- wamā
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- ما
- Part of speech
- Negative particle (NEG)
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- وَprefix · CONJ
- مَاstem · NEG
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 21:16 — 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 →
We did not create the sky and the earth and what is between them for amusementWe created not the heaven and the earth and all that is between them in playWe created not the heaven and the earth, and what is between them, for sportWe did not create the heaven and the earth and what is between the two in playSame form · 512 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form وَمَا appears 512 times in the corpus.
- وَمَا2:8:9
- وَمَا2:9:5
- وَمَا2:9:9
- وَمَا2:16:9
- وَمَا2:26:35
- وَمَا2:33:20
- وَمَا2:57:13
- وَمَا2:66:6
- وَمَا2:71:22
- وَمَا2:74:33
- وَمَا2:77:8
- وَمَا2:85:45
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