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Yusuf 12:79

قَالَ مَعَاذَ ٱللَّهِ أَن نَّأۡخُذَ إِلَّا مَن وَجَدۡنَا مَتَٰعَنَا عِندَهُۥٓ إِنَّآ إِذٗا لَّظَٰلِمُونَ

Joseph responded, “Allah forbid that we should take other than the one with whom we found our property. Otherwise, we would surely be unjust.”

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
He said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
مَعَاذَ
maʿādha
Allah forbid
Vocabulary
Root: عوذ
ٱللَّهِ
l-lahi
Allah forbid
Vocabulary
Root: اله
أَن
an
that
Vocabulary
نَّأۡخُذَ
nakhudha
we take
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
إِلَّا
illā
except
Vocabulary
مَن
man
(one) who
Vocabulary
وَجَدۡنَا
wajadnā
we found
Vocabulary
Root: وجد
مَتَٰعَنَا
matāʿanā
our possession
Vocabulary
Root: متع
عِندَهُۥٓ
ʿindahu
with him
Vocabulary
إِنَّآ
innā
Indeed, we
Vocabulary
إِذٗا
idhan
then
Vocabulary
لَّظَٰلِمُونَ
laẓālimūna
surely (would be) wrongdoers
Vocabulary
Root: ظلم

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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.