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Yusuf 12:78

قَالُواْ يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلۡعَزِيزُ إِنَّ لَهُۥٓ أَبٗا شَيۡخٗا كَبِيرٗا فَخُذۡ أَحَدَنَا مَكَانَهُۥٓۖ إِنَّا نَرَىٰكَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُحۡسِنِينَ

They appealed, “O Chief Minister! He has a very old father, so take one of us instead. We surely see you as one of the good-doers.”

Word by word

قَالُواْ
qālū
They said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا
yāayyuhā
O
Vocabulary
ٱلۡعَزِيزُ
l-ʿazīzu
Aziz!
Vocabulary
Root: عزز
إِنَّ
inna
Indeed
Vocabulary
لَهُۥٓ
lahu
he has
Vocabulary
أَبٗا
aban
a father
Vocabulary
Root: ابو
شَيۡخٗا
shaykhan
old
Vocabulary
Root: شيخ
كَبِيرٗا
kabīran
[great]
Vocabulary
Root: كبر
فَخُذۡ
fakhudh
so take
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
أَحَدَنَا
aḥadanā
one of us
Vocabulary
Root: احد
مَكَانَهُۥٓۖ
makānahu
(in) his place
Vocabulary
إِنَّا
innā
Indeed we
Vocabulary
نَرَىٰكَ
narāka
[we] see you
Vocabulary
Root: راي
مِنَ
mina
of
Vocabulary
ٱلۡمُحۡسِنِينَ
l-muḥ'sinīna
the good-doers
Vocabulary
Root: حسن

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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.