Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 34:54:4

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: 34 · Sheba
Verse: 34:54
Word in verse: 4
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:34:54:4

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

مَاstem · REL

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

Sheba 34:54Quranic text

وَحِيلَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ مَا يَشْتَهُونَ كَمَا فُعِلَ بِأَشْيَاعِهِم مِّن قَبْلُ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟فِى شَكٍّ مُّرِيبٍۭ

← وَبَيْنَ 34:54:3 يَشْتَهُونَ 34:54:5 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 34:54 — 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 →

A barrier will be placed between them and what they desire, as was done formerly with their counterparts. They were in disturbing doubt

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

And a gulf is set between them and that which they desire, as was done for people of their kind of old. Lo! they were in hopeless doubt

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And a gulf shall be between them and that which they shall desire - As was done unto their likes of old, who were lost in the questionings of doubt

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

And there shall be a barrier between them and that which they lust after; as we did with their fellow sectaries before; verily, they were in hesitating doubt

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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