وَقَالَفِرْعَوْنُيَٰٓأَيُّهَاٱلْمَلَأُمَاعَلِمْتُلَكُممِّنْإِلَٰهٍغَيْرِىفَأَوْقِدْلِىيَٰهَٰمَٰنُعَلَىٱلطِّينِفَٱجْعَللِّىصَرْحًالَّعَلِّىٓأَطَّلِعُإِلَىٰٓإِلَٰهِمُوسَىٰوَإِنِّىلَأَظُنُّهُۥمِنَٱلْكَٰذِبِينَ
Reference 28:38Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 28:38:5
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
- 28 · The Stories
- Verse
- 28:38
- Word in verse
- 5
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:28:38:5
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- Not
- Transliteration
- mā
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- ما
- Part of speech
- Negative particle (NEG)
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- 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 1.1The Stories 28:38Quranic text
How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 28:38 — 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 →
Pharaoh said, “O nobles, I know of no god for you other than me. So fire-up the bricks for me O Hamaan, and build me a tower, that I may ascend to the God of Moses, though I think he is a liar.”And Pharaoh said: O chiefs! I know not that ye have a god other than me, so kindle for me (a fire), O Haman, to bake the mud; and set up for me a lofty tower in order that I may survey the god of Moses; and lo! I deem him of the liarsAnd Pharaoh said, "O ye nobles, ye have no other God that I know of but myself. Burn me then, Haman, bricks of clay, and build me a tower that I may mount up to the God of Moses, for in sooth, I deem him a liarAnd Pharaoh said, 'O ye chiefs! I do not know any god for you except me; then set fire, O Haman! to some clay and make for me a tower, haply I may mount up to the God of Moses; for, verity, I think he is of those who lieSame form · 714 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form مَا appears 714 times in the corpus.
- مَا2:17:8
- مَا2:30:26
- مَا2:32:7
- مَا2:33:18
- مَا2:57:11
- مَا2:63:12
- مَا2:68:7
- مَا2:68:22
- مَا2:69:7
- مَا2:70:7
- مَا2:75:16
- مَا2:77:6
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