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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 26:70:5

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
26 · The Poets
Verse
26:70
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:26:70:5

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 · 4 editions

These translations render verse 26:70 — 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 →

When he said to his father and his people, “What do you worship?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
When he said unto his father and his folk: What worship ye
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
When he said to his Father and to his people, "What worship ye
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
when he said to his father and his people, 'What do ye serve
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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