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An-Nahl 16:4

خَلَقَ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ مِن نُّطۡفَةٖ فَإِذَا هُوَ خَصِيمٞ مُّبِينٞ

He created humans from a sperm-drop, then—behold!—they openly challenge ˹Him˺.

Word by word

خَلَقَ
khalaqa
He created
Vocabulary
Root: خلق
ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ
l-insāna
the human kind
Vocabulary
Root: انس
مِن
min
from
Vocabulary
نُّطۡفَةٖ
nuṭ'fatin
a minute quantity of semen
Vocabulary
Root: نطف
فَإِذَا
fa-idhā
then behold
Vocabulary
هُوَ
huwa
he
Vocabulary
خَصِيمٞ
khaṣīmun
(is) an opponent
Vocabulary
Root: خصم
مُّبِينٞ
mubīnun
clear
Vocabulary
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.