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Hud 11:72

قَالَتۡ يَٰوَيۡلَتَىٰٓ ءَأَلِدُ وَأَنَا۠ عَجُوزٞ وَهَٰذَا بَعۡلِي شَيۡخًاۖ إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَشَيۡءٌ عَجِيبٞ

She wondered, “Oh, my! How can I have a child in this old age, and my husband here is an old man? This is truly an astonishing thing!”

Word by word

قَالَتۡ
qālat
She said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
يَٰوَيۡلَتَىٰٓ
yāwaylatā
Woe to me!
Vocabulary
ءَأَلِدُ
a-alidu
Shall I bear a child
Vocabulary
Root: ولد
وَأَنَا۠
wa-anā
while I am
Vocabulary
عَجُوزٞ
ʿajūzun
an old woman
Vocabulary
Root: عجز
وَهَٰذَا
wahādhā
and this
Vocabulary
بَعۡلِي
baʿlī
my husband
Vocabulary
Root: بعل
شَيۡخًاۖ
shaykhan
(is) an old man
Vocabulary
Root: شيخ
إِنَّ
inna
Indeed
Vocabulary
هَٰذَا
hādhā
this
Vocabulary
لَشَيۡءٌ
lashayon
(is) surely a thing
Vocabulary
Root: شيا
عَجِيبٞ
ʿajībun
amazing
Vocabulary
Root: عجب

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Root and lemma annotations: Quranic Arabic Corpus © 2011 Kais Dukes (GPL), based on Tanzil text. Grammar tag guide. Only verified word alignments are annotated; missing roots are not guessed. A verse may be a phrase or span several sentences.