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Al-Kahf 18:109

قُل لَّوۡ كَانَ ٱلۡبَحۡرُ مِدَادٗا لِّكَلِمَٰتِ رَبِّي لَنَفِدَ ٱلۡبَحۡرُ قَبۡلَ أَن تَنفَدَ كَلِمَٰتُ رَبِّي وَلَوۡ جِئۡنَا بِمِثۡلِهِۦ مَدَدٗا

Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “If the ocean were ink for ˹writing˺ the Words of my Lord, it would certainly run out before the Words of my Lord were finished, even if We refilled it with its equal.”        

Word by word

قُل
qul
Say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
لَّوۡ
law
If
Vocabulary
كَانَ
kāna
were
Vocabulary
Root: كون
ٱلۡبَحۡرُ
l-baḥru
the sea
Vocabulary
Root: بحر
مِدَادٗا
midādan
ink
Vocabulary
Root: مدد
لِّكَلِمَٰتِ
likalimāti
for (the) Words
Vocabulary
Root: كلم
رَبِّي
rabbī
(of) my Lord
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
لَنَفِدَ
lanafida
surely (would be) exhausted
Vocabulary
Root: نفد
ٱلۡبَحۡرُ
l-baḥru
the sea
Vocabulary
Root: بحر
قَبۡلَ
qabla
before
Vocabulary
Root: قبل
أَن
an
[that]
Vocabulary
تَنفَدَ
tanfada
(were) exhausted
Vocabulary
Root: نفد
كَلِمَٰتُ
kalimātu
(the) Words
Vocabulary
Root: كلم
رَبِّي
rabbī
(of) my Lord
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
وَلَوۡ
walaw
even if
Vocabulary
جِئۡنَا
ji'nā
We brought
Vocabulary
Root: جيا
بِمِثۡلِهِۦ
bimith'lihi
(the) like (of) it
Vocabulary
مَدَدٗا
madadan
(as) a supplement
Vocabulary
Root: مدد

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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.