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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 38:75:7

لِمَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
38 · The letter Saad
Verse
38:75
Word in verse
7
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:38:75:7

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
to (one) whom
Transliteration
limā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ما
Part of speech
Relative pronoun (REL)
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. لِprefix · P
  2. 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 38:75 — 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, “O Satan, what prevented you from prostrating before what I created with My Own hands? Are you too proud, or were you one of the exalted?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He said: O Iblis! What hindereth thee from falling prostrate before that which I have created with both My hands? Art thou too proud or art thou of the high exalted
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
O Eblis," said God, "what hindereth thee from prostrating thyself before him whom my hands have made? Is it that thou are puffed up with pride? or art thou a being of lofty merit
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said He, 'O Iblis! what prevents thee from adoring what I have created with my two hands? art thou too big with pride? or art thou amongst the exalted
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 12 occurrences

Computed

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

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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