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Al-Kahf 18:40

فَعَسَىٰ رَبِّيٓ أَن يُؤۡتِيَنِ خَيۡرٗا مِّن جَنَّتِكَ وَيُرۡسِلَ عَلَيۡهَا حُسۡبَانٗا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ فَتُصۡبِحَ صَعِيدٗا زَلَقًا

perhaps my Lord will grant me ˹something˺ better than your garden, and send down upon your garden a thunderbolt from the sky, turning it into a barren waste.

Word by word

فَعَسَىٰ
faʿasā
It may be
Vocabulary
Root: عسي
رَبِّيٓ
rabbī
that my Lord
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
أَن
an
that my Lord
Vocabulary
يُؤۡتِيَنِ
yu'tiyani
will give me
Vocabulary
Root: اتي
خَيۡرٗا
khayran
better
Vocabulary
Root: خير
مِّن
min
than
Vocabulary
جَنَّتِكَ
jannatika
your garden
Vocabulary
Root: جنن
وَيُرۡسِلَ
wayur'sila
and will send
Vocabulary
Root: رسل
عَلَيۡهَا
ʿalayhā
upon it
Vocabulary
حُسۡبَانٗا
ḥus'bānan
a calamity
Vocabulary
Root: حسب
مِّنَ
mina
from
Vocabulary
ٱلسَّمَآءِ
l-samāi
the sky
Vocabulary
Root: سمو
فَتُصۡبِحَ
fatuṣ'biḥa
then it will become
Vocabulary
Root: صبح
صَعِيدٗا
ṣaʿīdan
ground
Vocabulary
Root: صعد
زَلَقًا
zalaqan
slippery
Vocabulary
Root: زلق

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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.