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Yusuf 12:73

قَالُواْ تَٱللَّهِ لَقَدۡ عَلِمۡتُم مَّا جِئۡنَا لِنُفۡسِدَ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَمَا كُنَّا سَٰرِقِينَ

Joseph’s brothers replied, “By Allah! You know well that we did not come to cause trouble in the land, nor are we thieves.”

Word by word

قَالُواْ
qālū
They said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
تَٱللَّهِ
tal-lahi
By Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
لَقَدۡ
laqad
certainly
Vocabulary
عَلِمۡتُم
ʿalim'tum
you know
Vocabulary
Root: علم
مَّا
mā
not
Vocabulary
جِئۡنَا
ji'nā
we came
Vocabulary
Root: جيا
لِنُفۡسِدَ
linuf'sida
that we cause corruption
Vocabulary
Root: فسد
فِي
fī
in
Vocabulary
ٱلۡأَرۡضِ
l-arḍi
the land
Vocabulary
Root: ارض
وَمَا
wamā
and not
Vocabulary
كُنَّا
kunnā
we are
Vocabulary
Root: كون
سَٰرِقِينَ
sāriqīna
thieves
Vocabulary
Root: سرق

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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.