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Al-Isra 17:83

وَإِذَآ أَنۡعَمۡنَا عَلَى ٱلۡإِنسَٰنِ أَعۡرَضَ وَنَـَٔا بِجَانِبِهِۦ وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلشَّرُّ كَانَ يَـُٔوسٗا

When We grant people Our favours, they turn away, acting arrogantly. But when touched with evil, they lose all hope.

Word by word

وَإِذَآ
wa-idhā
And when
Vocabulary
أَنۡعَمۡنَا
anʿamnā
We bestow favor
Vocabulary
Root: نعم
عَلَى
ʿalā
on
Vocabulary
ٱلۡإِنسَٰنِ
l-insāni
man
Vocabulary
Root: انس
أَعۡرَضَ
aʿraḍa
he turns away
Vocabulary
Root: عرض
وَنَـَٔا
wanaā
and becomes remote
Vocabulary
Root: ناي
بِجَانِبِهِۦ
bijānibihi
on his side
Vocabulary
وَإِذَا
wa-idhā
And when
Vocabulary
مَسَّهُ
massahu
touches him
Vocabulary
Root: مسس
ٱلشَّرُّ
l-sharu
the evil
Vocabulary
Root: شرر
كَانَ
kāna
he is
Vocabulary
Root: كون
يَـُٔوسٗا
yaūsan
(in) despair
Vocabulary
Root: ياس

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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.