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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 9:17:1

مَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
9 · The Repentance
Verse
9:17
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:9:17:1

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. مَاstem · 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 · 5 editions

These translations render verse 9:17 — 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 →

It is not for the polytheists to attend God’s places of worship while professing their disbelief. These—their works are in vain, and in the Fire they will abide
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
It is not for the idolaters to tend Allah's sanctuaries, bearing witness against themselves of disbelief. As for such, their works are vain and in the Fire they will abide
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
It is not for the votaries of other gods with God, witnesses against themselves of infidelity, to visit the temples of God. These! vain their works: and in the fire shall they abide for ever
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
It is not for idolaters to repair to the mosques of God, bearing witness against themselves to unbelief; they it is whose works are vain, and in the Fire shall they dwell for, aye
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
what he was for the associators that they tend places of prostration Allah one witnessings upon their selfs by the rejection those he came to nothing their deeds and in the fire they abidings

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 · 714 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form مَا appears 714 times in the corpus.

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