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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 36:52:8

مَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
36:52
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:36:52:8

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. مَاstem · 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 36:52 — 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 →

They will say, “Woe to us! Who resurrected us from our resting-place?” This is what the Most Gracious had promised, and the messengers have spoken the truth.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Crying: Woe upon us! Who hath raised us from our place of sleep? This is that which the Beneficent did promise, and the messengers spoke truth
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They shall say, "Oh! woe to us! who hath roused us from our sleeping place? 'Tis what the God of Mercy promised; and the Apostles spake the truth
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They shall say, 'O, woe is us! who has raised us up from our sleeping-place? this is what the Merciful promised, and the apostles told the truth
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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