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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 22:12:5

مَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
22 · The Pilgrimage
Verse
22:12
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:22:12:5

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. 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 22:12 — 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 →

He invokes, instead of God, what can neither harm him nor benefit him. That is the far straying
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He calleth, beside Allah, unto that which hurteth him not nor benefiteth him. That is the far error
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
He calleth upon that beside God which can neither hurt him nor profit him. This same is the far-gone error
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
He calls, besides God, on what can neither harm him nor profit him;- that is a wide error
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
he calls from apart from Allah what not he harms and not he benefits that He the straying the far

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.

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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