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An-Nahl 16:57

وَيَجۡعَلُونَ لِلَّهِ ٱلۡبَنَٰتِ سُبۡحَٰنَهُۥ وَلَهُم مَّا يَشۡتَهُونَ

And they attribute ˹angels as˺ daughters to Allah—glory be to Him!—the opposite of what they desire for themselves.

Word by word

وَيَجۡعَلُونَ
wayajʿalūna
And they assign
Vocabulary
Root: جعل
لِلَّهِ
lillahi
to Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
ٱلۡبَنَٰتِ
l-banāti
daughters
Vocabulary
Root: بني
سُبۡحَٰنَهُۥ
sub'ḥānahu
Glory be to Him!
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وَلَهُم
walahum
And for them
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مَّا
mā
(is) what
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يَشۡتَهُونَ
yashtahūna
they desire
Vocabulary
Root: شهو

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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.