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Yusuf 12:39

يَٰصَٰحِبَيِ ٱلسِّجۡنِ ءَأَرۡبَابٞ مُّتَفَرِّقُونَ خَيۡرٌ أَمِ ٱللَّهُ ٱلۡوَٰحِدُ ٱلۡقَهَّارُ

O  my fellow-prisoners! Which is far better: many different lords or Allah—the One, the Supreme?

Word by word

يَٰصَٰحِبَيِ
yāṣāḥibayi
O my two companions
Vocabulary
ٱلسِّجۡنِ
l-sij'ni
(of) the prison!
Vocabulary
Root: سجن
ءَأَرۡبَابٞ
a-arbābun
Are lords
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
مُّتَفَرِّقُونَ
mutafarriqūna
separate
Vocabulary
Root: فرق
خَيۡرٌ
khayrun
better
Vocabulary
Root: خير
أَمِ
ami
or
Vocabulary
ٱللَّهُ
l-lahu
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
ٱلۡوَٰحِدُ
l-wāḥidu
the One
Vocabulary
Root: وحد
ٱلۡقَهَّارُ
l-qahāru
the Irresistible
Vocabulary
Root: قهر

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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.