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Yusuf 12:11

قَالُواْ يَـٰٓأَبَانَا مَا لَكَ لَا تَأۡمَ۬نَّا عَلَىٰ يُوسُفَ وَإِنَّا لَهُۥ لَنَٰصِحُونَ

They said, “O our father! Why do you not trust us with Joseph, although we truly wish him well?

Word by word

قَالُواْ
qālū
They said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
يَـٰٓأَبَانَا
yāabānā
O our father!
Vocabulary
Root: ابو
مَا
mā
Why
Vocabulary
لَكَ
laka
(do) you
Vocabulary
لَا
lā
not
Vocabulary
تَأۡمَ۬نَّا
tamannā
trust us
Vocabulary
Root: امن
عَلَىٰ
ʿalā
with
Vocabulary
يُوسُفَ
yūsufa
Yusuf
Vocabulary
وَإِنَّا
wa-innā
while indeed we
Vocabulary
لَهُۥ
lahu
(are) for him
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لَنَٰصِحُونَ
lanāṣiḥūna
surely well-wishers
Vocabulary
Root: نصح

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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.