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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 6:38:13

مَّا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
6 · The Cattle
Verse
6:38
Word in verse
13
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:6:38:13

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. 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 6:38 — 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 →

There is no animal on land, nor a bird flying with its wings, but are communities like you. We neglected nothing in the Scripture. Then to their Lord they will be gathered
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
There is not an animal in the earth, nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are peoples like unto you. We have neglected nothing in the Book (of Our decrees). Then unto their Lord they will be gathered
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
No kind of beast is there on earth nor fowl that flieth with its wings, but is a folk like you: nothing have we passed over in the Book: then unto their Lord shall they be gathered
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
There is not a beast upon the earth nor a bird that flies with both its wings, but is a nation like to you; we have omitted nothing from the Book; then to their Lord shall they be gathered
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 162 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form مَّا appears 162 times in the corpus.

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