Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 37:58:1

أَفَمَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): أَفَمَا Quranic text
Simple: أَفَمَا
Without tashkeel: أفما
Normalised (searchable): افما

Position

Computed

Surah: 37 · Those drawn up in Ranks
Verse: 37:58
Word in verse: 1
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:37:58:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: Then are not
Transliteration: afamā

Root: none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma: ما
Part of speech: Negative particle (NEG)
Features: —

Sub-word segments

أَprefix · INTG
فَprefix · SUP
مَاstem · 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

Those drawn up in Ranks 37:58Quranic text

أَفَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَيِّتِينَ

← ٱلْمُحْضَرِينَ 37:57:6 نَحْنُ 37:58:2 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 37:58 — 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 →

“We will not die

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

Are we then not to die

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

But do we not die," say the blessed

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

What! shall we not die save our first death

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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