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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 25:55:5

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
25:55
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:25:55:5

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 25:55 — 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 →

And yet, instead of God, they serve what neither profits them nor harms them. The disbeliever has always turned his back on his Lord
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Yet they worship instead of Allah that which can neither benefit them nor hurt them. The disbeliever was ever a partisan against his Lord
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Yet beside God do they worship what can neither help nor hurt them: and the Infidel is Satan's helper against his Lord
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Yet they worship beside God what can neither profit them nor harm them; but he who misbelieves in his Lord backs up (the devil)
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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Community

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