Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 37:85:5

مَاذَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): مَاذَا Quranic text
Simple: مَاذَا
Without tashkeel: ماذا
Normalised (searchable): ماذا

Position

Computed

Surah: 37 · Those drawn up in Ranks
Verse: 37:85
Word in verse: 5
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:37:85:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: "What is it
Transliteration: mādhā

Root: none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma: ماذا
Part of speech: Interrogative (INTG)
Features: —

Sub-word segments

مَاذَاstem · 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

Those drawn up in Ranks 37:85Quranic text

إِذْ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِۦ مَاذَا تَعْبُدُونَ

← وَقَوْمِهِۦ 37:85:4 تَعْبُدُونَ 37:85:6 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 37:85 — 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 →

He said to his father and his people, “What are you worshiping

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

When he said unto his father and his folk: What is it that ye worship

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

When he said to his father and to his people, "What is this ye worship

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

when he said to his father and his people, 'What is it that ye serve

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 12 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form مَاذَا appears 12 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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