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Yusuf 12:54

وَقَالَ ٱلۡمَلِكُ ٱئۡتُونِي بِهِۦٓ أَسۡتَخۡلِصۡهُ لِنَفۡسِيۖ فَلَمَّا كَلَّمَهُۥ قَالَ إِنَّكَ ٱلۡيَوۡمَ لَدَيۡنَا مَكِينٌ أَمِينٞ

The King said, “Bring him to me. I will employ him exclusively in my service.” And when Joseph spoke to him, the King said, “Today you are highly esteemed and fully trusted by us.”

Word by word

وَقَالَ
waqāla
And said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
ٱلۡمَلِكُ
l-maliku
the king
Vocabulary
Root: ملك
ٱئۡتُونِي
i'tūnī
Bring him to me
Vocabulary
Root: اتي
بِهِۦٓ
bihi
Bring him to me
Vocabulary
أَسۡتَخۡلِصۡهُ
astakhliṣ'hu
I will select him
Vocabulary
Root: خلص
لِنَفۡسِيۖ
linafsī
for myself
Vocabulary
Root: نفس
فَلَمَّا
falammā
Then when
Vocabulary
كَلَّمَهُۥ
kallamahu
he spoke to him
Vocabulary
قَالَ
qāla
he said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
إِنَّكَ
innaka
Indeed, you
Vocabulary
ٱلۡيَوۡمَ
l-yawma
(are) today
Vocabulary
Root: يوم
لَدَيۡنَا
ladaynā
with us
Vocabulary
مَكِينٌ
makīnun
firmly established
Vocabulary
Root: مكن
أَمِينٞ
amīnun
(and) trusted
Vocabulary
Root: امن

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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.