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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 6:23:10

مَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
6:23
Word in verse
10
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:6:23:10

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
not
Transliteration
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 · 4 editions

These translations render verse 6:23 — 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 →

Then their only argument will be to say, “By God, our Lord, we were not idolaters.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Then will they have no contention save that they will say: By Allah, our Lord, we never were idolaters
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Then shall they find no other excuse than to say, "By God our Lord! we joined not companions with Him
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Then they will have no excuse but to say, 'By God our Lord, we did not associate (others with thee)
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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