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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 46:3:1

مَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
46 · The Dunes
Verse
46:3
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:46:3:1

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

  1. 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 · 5 editions

These translations render verse 46:3 — 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 →

We did not create the heavens and the earth and what lies between them except with reason, and for a finite period. But the blasphemers continue to ignore the warnings they receive
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
We created not the heavens and the earth and all that is between them save with truth, and for a term appointed. But those who disbelieve turn away from that whereof they are warned
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
We have not created the Heavens and the Earth and all that is between them otherwise than in truth and for a settled term. But they who believe not, turn away from their warning
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
We have only created the heavens and the earth and what is between the two in truth and for an appointed time; but those who misbelieve from being warned do turn aside
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
what We created the skies and the earth and not their between except by the truth and term of named and those who they rejected about what was warned one turning asides

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.

Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0How this was produced

Same form · 714 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form مَا appears 714 times in the corpus.

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