Ornaments of gold 43:20Quranic text
وَقَالُوا۟لَوْشَآءَٱلرَّحْمَٰنُمَاعَبَدْنَٰهُممَّالَهُمبِذَٰلِكَمِنْعِلْمٍإِنْهُمْإِلَّايَخْرُصُونَ
Reference 43:20Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 43:20:7
مَّا
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- مَّا Quranic text
- Simple
- مَّا
- Without tashkeel
- ما
- Normalised (searchable)
- ما
Position
Computed- Verse
- 43:20
- Word in verse
- 7
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:43:20:7
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- Not
- Transliteration
- mā
- Root
- none — this word has no triliteral root
- Lemma
- ما
- Part of speech
- Negative particle (NEG)
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- مَّاstem · 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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 43:20 — 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 →
And they say, “Had the Most Gracious willed, we would not have worshiped them.” But they have no knowledge of that; they are merely guessingAnd they say: If the Beneficent One had (so) willed, we should not have worshipped them. They have no knowledge whatsoever of that. They do but guessAnd they say: "Had the God of Mercy so willed it we should never have worshipped them." No knowledge have they in this: they only lieand they say, 'Had the Merciful pleased we should never have worshipped them.' They have no knowledge of that, they only conjectureSame form · 162 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form مَّا appears 162 times in the corpus.
- مَّا2:26:8
- مَّا2:29:5
- مَّا2:61:35
- مَّا2:72:8
- مَّا2:88:9
- مَّا2:89:19
- مَّا2:105:1
- مَّا2:134:9
- مَّا2:141:9
- مَّا2:145:8
- مَّا2:151:14
- مَّا2:239:12
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