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Yusuf 12:14

قَالُواْ لَئِنۡ أَكَلَهُ ٱلذِّئۡبُ وَنَحۡنُ عُصۡبَةٌ إِنَّآ إِذٗا لَّخَٰسِرُونَ

They said, “If a wolf were to devour him, despite our strong group, then we would certainly be losers!”

Word by word

قَالُواْ
qālū
They said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
لَئِنۡ
la-in
If
Vocabulary
أَكَلَهُ
akalahu
eats him
Vocabulary
Root: اكل
ٱلذِّئۡبُ
l-dhi'bu
the wolf
Vocabulary
Root: ذاب
وَنَحۡنُ
wanaḥnu
while we
Vocabulary
عُصۡبَةٌ
ʿuṣ'batun
(are) a group
Vocabulary
Root: عصب
إِنَّآ
innā
indeed we
Vocabulary
إِذٗا
idhan
then
Vocabulary
لَّخَٰسِرُونَ
lakhāsirūna
surely (would be) losers
Vocabulary
Root: خسر

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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.