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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:24:13

مَّا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
3:24
Word in verse
13
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:24:13

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. مَّاstem · 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 3:24 — 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 →

That is because they said, “The Fire will not touch us except for a limited number of days.” They have been misled in their religion by the lies they fabricated
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
That is because they say: The Fire will not touch us save for a certain number of days. That which they used to invent hath deceived them regarding their religion
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
This - because they said, "The fire shall by no means touch us, but for certain days:" - Their own devices have deceived them in their religion
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
that is because they say the fire shall not touch us save for a certain number of days. But that deceived them in their religion which they had invented
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 162 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form مَّا appears 162 times in the corpus.

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