Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 30:55:6

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: 30 · The Romans
Verse: 30:55
Word in verse: 6
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:30:55:6

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

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Romans 30:55Quranic text

وَيَوْمَ تَقُومُ ٱلسَّاعَةُ يُقْسِمُ ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ مَا لَبِثُوا۟غَيْرَ سَاعَةٍ كَذَٰلِكَ كَانُوا۟يُؤْفَكُونَ

← ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ 30:55:5 لَبِثُوا۟ 30:55:7 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 30:55 — 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 →

On the Day when the Hour takes place, the sinners will swear they had stayed but an hour. Thus they were deluded

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

And on the day when the Hour riseth the guilty will vow that they did tarry but an hour - thus were they ever deceived

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And on the day whereon the Hour shall arrive, the wicked will swear. That not above an hour have they waited: Even so did they utter lies on earth

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

And on the day when the Hour shall rise, the sinners shall swear that they have not tarried save an hour; thus were they wont to lie

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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