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An-Nahl 16:68

وَأَوۡحَىٰ رَبُّكَ إِلَى ٱلنَّحۡلِ أَنِ ٱتَّخِذِي مِنَ ٱلۡجِبَالِ بُيُوتٗا وَمِنَ ٱلشَّجَرِ وَمِمَّا يَعۡرِشُونَ

And your Lord inspired the bees: “Make ˹your˺ homes in the mountains, the trees, and in what people construct,

Word by word

وَأَوۡحَىٰ
wa-awḥā
And inspired
Vocabulary
Root: وحي
رَبُّكَ
rabbuka
your Lord
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
إِلَى
ilā
to
Vocabulary
ٱلنَّحۡلِ
l-naḥli
the bee
Vocabulary
Root: نحل
أَنِ
ani
[that]
Vocabulary
ٱتَّخِذِي
ittakhidhī
Take
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
مِنَ
mina
among
Vocabulary
ٱلۡجِبَالِ
l-jibāli
the mountains
Vocabulary
Root: جبل
بُيُوتٗا
buyūtan
houses
Vocabulary
Root: بيت
وَمِنَ
wamina
and among
Vocabulary
ٱلشَّجَرِ
l-shajari
the trees
Vocabulary
Root: شجر
وَمِمَّا
wamimmā
and in what
Vocabulary
يَعۡرِشُونَ
yaʿrishūna
they construct
Vocabulary
Root: عرش

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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.