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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 36:48:2

مَتَىٰ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
مَتَىٰ Quranic text
Simple
مَتَىٰ
Without tashkeel
متى
Normalised (searchable)
متي

Position

Computed
Surah
36 · Yaseen
Verse
36:48
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:36:48:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
"When (is)
Transliteration
matā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
مَتَى
Part of speech
Interrogative (INTG)
Features
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Sub-word segments

  1. مَتَىٰstem · INTG

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 36:48 — 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 →

And they say, “When will this promise be, if you are truthful?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And they say: When will this promise be fulfilled, if ye are truthful
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And they say, "When will this promise be fulfilled, if what ye say be true
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They say, 'When shall this promise come to pass, if ye do tell the truth
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 9 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form مَتَىٰ appears 9 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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