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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 23:38:9

وَمَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
23:38
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:23:38:9

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

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 23:38 — 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 is nothing but a man, making up lies about God. We have no faith in him.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He is only a man who hath invented a lie about Allah. We are not going to put faith in him
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
This is merely a man who forgeth a lie about God: and we will not believe him
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
He is only a man who forges against God a lie. And we believe not in him
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 512 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَمَا appears 512 times in the corpus.

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