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An-Nahl 16:117

مَتَٰعٞ قَلِيلٞ وَلَهُمۡ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٞ

˹It is only˺ a brief enjoyment, then they will suffer a painful punishment.

Word by word

مَتَٰعٞ
matāʿun
An enjoyment
Vocabulary
Root: متع
قَلِيلٞ
qalīlun
little
Vocabulary
Root: قلل
وَلَهُمۡ
walahum
and for them
Vocabulary
عَذَابٌ
ʿadhābun
(is) a punishment
Vocabulary
Root: عذب
أَلِيمٞ
alīmun
painful
Vocabulary
Root: الم

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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.