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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 42:47:18

وَمَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
42:47
Word in verse
18
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:42:47:18

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
and not
Transliteration
wamā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ما
Part of speech
Negative particle (NEG)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. 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

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 42:47 — 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 →

Respond to your Lord before there comes from God a Day that cannot be turned back. You will have no refuge on that Day, and no possibility of denial
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Answer the call of your Lord before there cometh unto you from Allah a Day which there is no averting. Ye have no refuge on that Day, nor have a ye any (power of) refusal
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Hearken then to your Lord ere the day come, which none can put back when God doth ordain its coming. No place of refuge for you on that day! no denying your own works
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Assent to your Lord before the day comes of which there is no averting from God; there is no refuge for you on that day; and for you there is no denial
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 512 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَمَا appears 512 times in the corpus.

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