Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 5:103:1

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: 5 · The Table
Verse: 5:103
Word in verse: 1
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:5:103:1

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

مَاstem · NEG

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Table 5:103Quranic text

مَا جَعَلَ ٱللَّهُ مِنۢ بَحِيرَةٍ وَلَا سَآئِبَةٍ وَلَا وَصِيلَةٍ وَلَا حَامٍ وَلَٰكِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟يَفْتَرُونَ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ ٱلْكَذِبَ وَأَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يَعْقِلُونَ

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 5:103 — 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 →

God did not institute the superstitions of Bahirah, Saibah, Wasilah, or of Hami; but those who disbelieve fabricate lies about God—most of them do not understand

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Allah hath not appointed anything in the nature of a Bahirah or a Sa'ibah or a Wasilah or a Hami, but those who disbelieve invent a lie against Allah. Most of them have no sense

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

God hath not ordained anything on the subject. of Bahira, or Saiba, or Wasila, or Hami; but the unbelievers have invented this lie against God: and most of them had no understanding

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

And God has not ordained any Ba'hirah or Saibah, nor Wazilah nor 'Hami, but those who misbelieve invent a lie against God, for most of them do not understand

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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