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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 38:17:3

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
38:17
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:38:17:3

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 38:17 — 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 →

Be patient in the face of what they say, and mention Our servant David, the resourceful. He was obedient
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Bear with what they say, and remember Our bondman David, lord of might, Lo! he was ever turning in repentance (toward Allah)
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Put thou up with what they say: and remember our servant David, a man strong of hand, one who turned him to Us in penitence
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Be patient of what they say, and remember our servant David endowed with might; verily, he turned frequently to us
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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Community

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