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An-Nahl 16:73

وَيَعۡبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا يَمۡلِكُ لَهُمۡ رِزۡقٗا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ شَيۡـٔٗا وَلَا يَسۡتَطِيعُونَ

Yet they worship besides Allah those ˹idols˺ who do not afford them any provision from the heavens and the earth, nor do they have the power to.

Word by word

وَيَعۡبُدُونَ
wayaʿbudūna
And they worship
Vocabulary
Root: عبد
مِن
min
other than
Vocabulary
دُونِ
dūni
other than
Vocabulary
Root: دون
ٱللَّهِ
l-lahi
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
مَا
mā
which
Vocabulary
لَا
lā
not
Vocabulary
يَمۡلِكُ
yamliku
possesses
Vocabulary
Root: ملك
لَهُمۡ
lahum
for them
Vocabulary
رِزۡقٗا
riz'qan
any provision
Vocabulary
Root: رزق
مِّنَ
mina
from
Vocabulary
ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ
l-samāwāti
the heavens
Vocabulary
Root: سمو
وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ
wal-arḍi
and the earth
Vocabulary
Root: ارض
شَيۡـٔٗا
shayan
[anything]
Vocabulary
Root: شيا
وَلَا
walā
and not
Vocabulary
يَسۡتَطِيعُونَ
yastaṭīʿūna
they are able
Vocabulary
Root: طوع

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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.