The Announcement 78:40Quranic text
إِنَّآأَنذَرْنَٰكُمْعَذَابًاقَرِيبًايَوْمَيَنظُرُٱلْمَرْءُمَاقَدَّمَتْيَدَاهُوَيَقُولُٱلْكَافِرُيَٰلَيْتَنِىكُنتُتُرَٰبًۢا
Reference 78:40Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 78:40:8
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
- 78:40
- Word in verse
- 8
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:78:40:8
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
- 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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 78:40 — 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 →
We have warned you of a near punishment—the Day when a person will observe what his hands have produced, and the faithless will say, “O, I wish I were dust.”Lo! We warn you of a doom at hand, a day whereon a man will look on that which his own hands have sent before, and the disbeliever will cry: "Would that I were dustVerily, we warn you of a chastisement close at hand: The day on which a man shall see the deeds which his hands have sent before him; and when the unbeliever shall say, "Oh! would I were dustVerily, we have warned you of a torment that is nigh: on a day when man shall see what his two hands have sent forward; and the misbeliever shall say, 'Would that I were dustSame form · 714 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form مَا appears 714 times in the corpus.
- مَا2:17:8
- مَا2:30:26
- مَا2:32:7
- مَا2:33:18
- مَا2:57:11
- مَا2:63:12
- مَا2:68:7
- مَا2:68:22
- مَا2:69:7
- مَا2:70:7
- مَا2:75:16
- مَا2:77:6
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