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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 6:28:12

لِمَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
6 · The Cattle
Verse
6:28
Word in verse
12
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:6:28:12

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
to what
Transliteration
limā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ما
Part of speech
Relative pronoun (REL)
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. لِprefix · P
  2. مَاstem · REL

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 6:28 — 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 →

What they used to conceal before will become clear to them. And even if they were sent back, they would revert to what they were forbidden. They are liars
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Nay, but that hath become clear unto them which before they used to hide. And if they were sent back they would return unto that which they are forbidden. Lo! they are liars
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Aye! that hath become clear to them which they before concealed; but though they should return, they would surely go back to that which was forbidden them; for they are surely liars
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Nay! now is shown to them what they did hide before; and could they be sent back, they would return to that they were forbidden, for they are very liars
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 12 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لِمَا appears 12 times in the corpus.

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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