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An-Nahl 16:79

أَلَمۡ يَرَوۡاْ إِلَى ٱلطَّيۡرِ مُسَخَّرَٰتٖ فِي جَوِّ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَا يُمۡسِكُهُنَّ إِلَّا ٱللَّهُۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَٰتٖ لِّقَوۡمٖ يُؤۡمِنُونَ

Have they not seen the birds glide in the open sky? None holds them up except Allah. Surely in this are signs for those who believe.

Word by word

أَلَمۡ
alam
Do not
Vocabulary
يَرَوۡاْ
yaraw
they see
Vocabulary
Root: راي
إِلَى
ilā
towards
Vocabulary
ٱلطَّيۡرِ
l-ṭayri
the birds
Vocabulary
Root: طير
مُسَخَّرَٰتٖ
musakharātin
controlled
Vocabulary
Root: سخر
فِي
fī
in
Vocabulary
جَوِّ
jawwi
the midst
Vocabulary
Root: جوو
ٱلسَّمَآءِ
l-samāi
(of) the sky
Vocabulary
Root: سمو
مَا
mā
None
Vocabulary
يُمۡسِكُهُنَّ
yum'sikuhunna
holds them up
Vocabulary
Root: مسك
إِلَّا
illā
except
Vocabulary
ٱللَّهُۚ
l-lahu
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
إِنَّ
inna
Indeed
Vocabulary
فِي
fī
in
Vocabulary
ذَٰلِكَ
dhālika
that
Vocabulary
لَأٓيَٰتٖ
laāyātin
(are) Signs
Vocabulary
لِّقَوۡمٖ
liqawmin
for a people
Vocabulary
Root: قوم
يُؤۡمِنُونَ
yu'minūna
who believe
Vocabulary
Root: امن

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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.