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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 26:121:5

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
26:121
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:26:121:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
but 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 26:121 — 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 →

In that is a sign, but most of them are not believers
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Lo! herein is indeed a portent, yet most of them are not believers
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Herein truly was a sign, but most of them believed not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
verily, in that is a sign, but most of them will never be believers
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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