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An-Nahl 16:120

إِنَّ إِبۡرَٰهِيمَ كَانَ أُمَّةٗ قَانِتٗا لِّلَّهِ حَنِيفٗا وَلَمۡ يَكُ مِنَ ٱلۡمُشۡرِكِينَ

Indeed, Abraham was a model of excellence: devoted to Allah, ˹perfectly˺ upright—not a polytheist—

Word by word

إِنَّ
inna
Indeed
Vocabulary
إِبۡرَٰهِيمَ
ib'rāhīma
Ibrahim
Vocabulary
كَانَ
kāna
was
Vocabulary
Root: كون
أُمَّةٗ
ummatan
a nation
Vocabulary
Root: امم
قَانِتٗا
qānitan
obedient
Vocabulary
Root: قنت
لِّلَّهِ
lillahi
to Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
حَنِيفٗا
ḥanīfan
upright
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Root: حنف
وَلَمۡ
walam
and not
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يَكُ
yaku
he was
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Root: كون
مِنَ
mina
of
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ٱلۡمُشۡرِكِينَ
l-mush'rikīna
the polytheists
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Root: شرك

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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.