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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 72:25:5

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
72 · The Jinn
Verse
72:25
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:72:25:5

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. مَّاstem · 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 · 5 editions

These translations render verse 72:25 — 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 do not know whether what you are promised is near, or whether my Lord will extend it for a period.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Say (O Muhammad, unto the disbelievers): I know not whether that which ye are promised is nigh, or if my Lord hath set a distant term for it
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
SAY: I know not whether that with which ye are threatened be nigh, or whether my Lord hath assigned it to a distant day
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Say, 'I know not if what ye are threatened with be nigh, or if my Lord will set for it a term
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
say if I realise near what are promised or he makes for him my Sustainer a span

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.

Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0How this was produced

Same form · 162 occurrences

Computed

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

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Cited by 0 investigations

Community

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