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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 31:28:1

مَّا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
31 · Luqman
Verse
31:28
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:31:28:1

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

  1. مَّاstem · 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 31:28 — 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 →

Your creation and your resurrection are only as a single soul. God is Hearing and Seeing
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Your creation and your raising (from the dead) are only as (the creation and the raising of) a single soul. Lo! Allah is Hearer, Knower
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Your creation and your quickening hereafter, are but as those of a single individual. Verily, God Heareth, Seeth
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Your creation and your rising again are but as that of one soul; verily, God both hears and sees
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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Community

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