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Yusuf 12:17

قَالُواْ يَـٰٓأَبَانَآ إِنَّا ذَهَبۡنَا نَسۡتَبِقُ وَتَرَكۡنَا يُوسُفَ عِندَ مَتَٰعِنَا فَأَكَلَهُ ٱلذِّئۡبُۖ وَمَآ أَنتَ بِمُؤۡمِنٖ لَّنَا وَلَوۡ كُنَّا صَٰدِقِينَ

They cried, “Our father! We went racing and left Joseph with our belongings, and a wolf devoured him! But you will not believe us, no matter how truthful we are.”

Word by word

قَالُواْ
qālū
They said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
يَـٰٓأَبَانَآ
yāabānā
O our father!
Vocabulary
Root: ابو
إِنَّا
innā
Indeed we
Vocabulary
ذَهَبۡنَا
dhahabnā
[we] went
Vocabulary
Root: ذهب
نَسۡتَبِقُ
nastabiqu
racing each other
Vocabulary
Root: سبق
وَتَرَكۡنَا
wataraknā
and we left
Vocabulary
Root: ترك
يُوسُفَ
yūsufa
Yusuf
Vocabulary
عِندَ
ʿinda
with
Vocabulary
Root: عند
مَتَٰعِنَا
matāʿinā
our possessions
Vocabulary
Root: متع
فَأَكَلَهُ
fa-akalahu
and ate him
Vocabulary
Root: اكل
ٱلذِّئۡبُۖ
l-dhi'bu
the wolf
Vocabulary
Root: ذاب
وَمَآ
wamā
But not
Vocabulary
أَنتَ
anta
you
Vocabulary
بِمُؤۡمِنٖ
bimu'minin
(will) believe
Vocabulary
Root: امن
لَّنَا
lanā
us
Vocabulary
وَلَوۡ
walaw
even if
Vocabulary
كُنَّا
kunnā
we are
Vocabulary
Root: كون
صَٰدِقِينَ
ṣādiqīna
truthful
Vocabulary
Root: صدق

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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.