Quran 7:5: The Last Testament

Then their only saying when Our punishment came to them was: "We were wicked!"

7:5Verse 965 of 6,346

Translation

English · QRT translation

فَمَا

famā

Then not

General Arabic dictionary

Corpus form ما. Dictionary lookup may use a verified citation form when the corpus form is inflected.

Meaning in this ayah

Then not

Letter-by-letter reading

فَfaمَmaاā

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ROOTNot applicable

WHAT THIS ISA negative word with one attached part

What this word is doing

“فَ” (fa)a joining word meaning “then / so.” It connects this word to what came before.Corpus grammarCONJ — prefixed conjunction fa (then / so).

“مَا” (mā)This means “not.” It makes the part that follows negative — here, it excludes the group or action named after it.Corpus grammarNEG — negative particle.