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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 23:6:5

مَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
23:6
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:23:6:5

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 · 4 editions

These translations render verse 23:6 — 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 →

Except from their spouses, or their dependents—for then they are free from blame
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Save from their wives or the (slaves) that their right hands possess, for then they are not blameworthy
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Save with their wives, or the slaves whom their right hands possess: for in that case they shall be free from blame
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
except for their wives or what their right hands possess for then, verily, they are not to be blamed
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 714 occurrences

Computed

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

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