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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 6:56:18

وَمَآ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
6:56
Word in verse
18
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:6:56:18

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
and not
Transliteration
wamā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ما
Part of speech
Negative particle (NEG)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · REM
  2. مَآstem · 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 6:56 — 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 →

Say, “I am forbidden from worshiping those you pray to besides God.” Say, “I will not follow your desires; else I would be lost and not be of those guided.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Say: I am forbidden to worship those on whom ye call instead of Allah. Say: I will not follow your desires, for then should I go astray and I should not be of the rightly guided
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
SAY: Forbidden am I to worship those whom ye call on beside God. SAY: I will not follow your wishes; for then should I have gone astray, and should not be of the guided
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Say, 'I am forbidden to worship those ye call upon beside God;' say, 'I will not follow your lusts, for then should I err and not be of the guided
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 134 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَمَآ appears 134 times in the corpus.

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