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An-Nahl 16:24

وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُم مَّاذَآ أَنزَلَ رَبُّكُمۡ قَالُوٓاْ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ

And when it is said to them, “What has your Lord revealed?” They say, “Ancient fables!”

Word by word

وَإِذَا
wa-idhā
And when
Vocabulary
قِيلَ
qīla
it is said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
لَهُم
lahum
to them
Vocabulary
مَّاذَآ
mādhā
What
Vocabulary
أَنزَلَ
anzala
has your Lord sent down
Vocabulary
Root: نزل
رَبُّكُمۡ
rabbukum
has your Lord sent down
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
قَالُوٓاْ
qālū
They say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
أَسَٰطِيرُ
asāṭīru
Tales
Vocabulary
Root: سطر
ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ
l-awalīna
(of) the ancient
Vocabulary
Root: اول

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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.