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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 7:117:10

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
7:117
Word in verse
10
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:7:117:10

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. 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 7:117 — 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 →

And We inspired Moses: “Throw your staff.” And at once, it swallowed what they were faking
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And We inspired Moses (saying): Throw thy staff! And lo! it swallowed up their lying show
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Then spake we unto Moses, "Throw down thy rod;" and lo! it devoured their lying wonders
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
But we inspired Moses (saying), 'Throw down thy rod, and it will gulp down that which they devise
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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