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Yusuf 12:20

وَشَرَوۡهُ بِثَمَنِۭ بَخۡسٖ دَرَٰهِمَ مَعۡدُودَةٖ وَكَانُواْ فِيهِ مِنَ ٱلزَّـٰهِدِينَ

They ˹later˺ sold him for a cheap price, just a few silver coins—only wanting to get rid of him. 

Word by word

وَشَرَوۡهُ
washarawhu
And they sold him
Vocabulary
Root: شري
بِثَمَنِۭ
bithamanin
for a price
Vocabulary
Root: ثمن
بَخۡسٖ
bakhsin
very low
Vocabulary
Root: بخس
دَرَٰهِمَ
darāhima
dirhams
Vocabulary
Root: درهم
مَعۡدُودَةٖ
maʿdūdatin
few
Vocabulary
Root: عدد
وَكَانُواْ
wakānū
and they were
Vocabulary
Root: كون
فِيهِ
fīhi
about him
Vocabulary
مِنَ
mina
of
Vocabulary
ٱلزَّـٰهِدِينَ
l-zāhidīna
those keen to give up
Vocabulary
Root: زهد

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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.