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Al-Isra 17:40

أَفَأَصۡفَىٰكُمۡ رَبُّكُم بِٱلۡبَنِينَ وَٱتَّخَذَ مِنَ ٱلۡمَلَـٰٓئِكَةِ إِنَٰثًاۚ إِنَّكُمۡ لَتَقُولُونَ قَوۡلًا عَظِيمٗا

Has your Lord favoured you ˹pagans˺ with sons and taken angels as ˹His˺ daughters? You are truly making an outrageous claim.

Word by word

أَفَأَصۡفَىٰكُمۡ
afa-aṣfākum
Then has your Lord chosen (for) you
Vocabulary
Root: صفو
رَبُّكُم
rabbukum
Then has your Lord chosen (for) you
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
بِٱلۡبَنِينَ
bil-banīna
sons
Vocabulary
Root: بني
وَٱتَّخَذَ
wa-ittakhadha
and He has taken
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
مِنَ
mina
from
Vocabulary
ٱلۡمَلَـٰٓئِكَةِ
l-malāikati
the Angels
Vocabulary
Root: ملك
إِنَٰثًاۚ
ināthan
daughters
Vocabulary
Root: انث
إِنَّكُمۡ
innakum
Indeed, you
Vocabulary
لَتَقُولُونَ
lataqūlūna
surely say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
قَوۡلًا
qawlan
a word
Vocabulary
Root: قول
عَظِيمٗا
ʿaẓīman
grave
Vocabulary
Root: عظم

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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.