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Yusuf 12:41

يَٰصَٰحِبَيِ ٱلسِّجۡنِ أَمَّآ أَحَدُكُمَا فَيَسۡقِي رَبَّهُۥ خَمۡرٗاۖ وَأَمَّا ٱلۡأٓخَرُ فَيُصۡلَبُ فَتَأۡكُلُ ٱلطَّيۡرُ مِن رَّأۡسِهِۦۚ قُضِيَ ٱلۡأَمۡرُ ٱلَّذِي فِيهِ تَسۡتَفۡتِيَانِ

“O my fellow-prisoners! ˹The first˺ one of you will serve wine to his master, and the other will be crucified and the birds will eat from his head. The matter about which you inquired has been decided.”

Word by word

يَٰصَٰحِبَيِ
yāṣāḥibayi
O my two companions
Vocabulary
ٱلسِّجۡنِ
l-sij'ni
(of) the prison
Vocabulary
Root: سجن
أَمَّآ
ammā
As for
Vocabulary
أَحَدُكُمَا
aḥadukumā
one of you
Vocabulary
Root: احد
فَيَسۡقِي
fayasqī
he will give drink
Vocabulary
Root: سقي
رَبَّهُۥ
rabbahu
(to) his master
Vocabulary
خَمۡرٗاۖ
khamran
wine
Vocabulary
Root: خمر
وَأَمَّا
wa-ammā
and as for
Vocabulary
ٱلۡأٓخَرُ
l-ākharu
the other
Vocabulary
فَيُصۡلَبُ
fayuṣ'labu
he will be crucified
Vocabulary
Root: صلب
فَتَأۡكُلُ
fatakulu
and will eat
Vocabulary
Root: اكل
ٱلطَّيۡرُ
l-ṭayru
the birds
Vocabulary
Root: طير
مِن
min
from
Vocabulary
رَّأۡسِهِۦۚ
rasihi
his head
Vocabulary
قُضِيَ
quḍiya
Has been decreed
Vocabulary
Root: قضي
ٱلۡأَمۡرُ
l-amru
the matter
Vocabulary
Root: امر
ٱلَّذِي
alladhī
about which
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فِيهِ
fīhi
about which
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تَسۡتَفۡتِيَانِ
tastaftiyāni
you both inquire
Vocabulary
Root: فتي

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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.