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An-Nahl 16:103

وَلَقَدۡ نَعۡلَمُ أَنَّهُمۡ يَقُولُونَ إِنَّمَا يُعَلِّمُهُۥ بَشَرٞۗ لِّسَانُ ٱلَّذِي يُلۡحِدُونَ إِلَيۡهِ أَعۡجَمِيّٞ وَهَٰذَا لِسَانٌ عَرَبِيّٞ مُّبِينٌ

And We surely know that they say, “No one is teaching him except a human.” But the man they refer to speaks a foreign tongue, whereas this ˹Quran˺ is ˹in˺ eloquent Arabic.

Word by word

وَلَقَدۡ
walaqad
And certainly
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نَعۡلَمُ
naʿlamu
We know
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Root: علم
أَنَّهُمۡ
annahum
that they
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يَقُولُونَ
yaqūlūna
say
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Root: قول
إِنَّمَا
innamā
Only
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يُعَلِّمُهُۥ
yuʿallimuhu
teaches him
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بَشَرٞۗ
basharun
a human being
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Root: بشر
لِّسَانُ
lisānu
(The) tongue
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Root: لسن
ٱلَّذِي
alladhī
(of) the one
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يُلۡحِدُونَ
yul'ḥidūna
they refer
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Root: لحد
إِلَيۡهِ
ilayhi
to him
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أَعۡجَمِيّٞ
aʿjamiyyun
(is) foreign
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Root: عجم
وَهَٰذَا
wahādhā
while this
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لِسَانٌ
lisānun
(is) a language
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Root: لسن
عَرَبِيّٞ
ʿarabiyyun
Arabic
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Root: عرب
مُّبِينٌ
mubīnun
clear
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Root: بين

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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.