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An-Nahl 16:58

وَإِذَا بُشِّرَ أَحَدُهُم بِٱلۡأُنثَىٰ ظَلَّ وَجۡهُهُۥ مُسۡوَدّٗا وَهُوَ كَظِيمٞ

Whenever one of them is given the good news of a baby girl, his face grows gloomy, as he suppresses his rage.

Word by word

وَإِذَا
wa-idhā
And when
Vocabulary
بُشِّرَ
bushira
is given good news
Vocabulary
Root: بشر
أَحَدُهُم
aḥaduhum
(to) one of them
Vocabulary
Root: احد
بِٱلۡأُنثَىٰ
bil-unthā
of a female
Vocabulary
Root: انث
ظَلَّ
ẓalla
turns
Vocabulary
Root: ظلل
وَجۡهُهُۥ
wajhuhu
his face
Vocabulary
مُسۡوَدّٗا
mus'waddan
dark
Vocabulary
Root: سود
وَهُوَ
wahuwa
and he
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كَظِيمٞ
kaẓīmun
suppresses grief
Vocabulary
Root: كظم

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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.