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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:41:10

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
21 · The Prophets
Verse
21:41
Word in verse
10
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:41:10

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 21:41 — 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 →

Messengers before you were also ridiculed, but those who jeered were surrounded by what they had ridiculed
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Messengers before thee, indeed, were mocked, but that whereat they mocked surrounded those who scoffed at them
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Other apostles have been scoffed at before thee: but that doom at which they mocked encompassed the scoffers
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Prophets before thee have been mocked at, but that whereat they jested encompassed those who mocked
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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