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Al-Kahf 18:60

وَإِذۡ قَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِفَتَىٰهُ لَآ أَبۡرَحُ حَتَّىٰٓ أَبۡلُغَ مَجۡمَعَ ٱلۡبَحۡرَيۡنِ أَوۡ أَمۡضِيَ حُقُبٗا

And ˹remember˺ when Moses said to his young assistant, “I will never give up until I reach the junction of the two seas, even if I travel for ages.”

Word by word

وَإِذۡ
wa-idh
And when
Vocabulary
قَالَ
qāla
said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
مُوسَىٰ
mūsā
Musa
Vocabulary
لِفَتَىٰهُ
lifatāhu
to his boy
Vocabulary
Root: فتي
لَآ
lā
Not
Vocabulary
أَبۡرَحُ
abraḥu
I will cease
Vocabulary
Root: برح
حَتَّىٰٓ
ḥattā
until
Vocabulary
أَبۡلُغَ
ablugha
I reach
Vocabulary
Root: بلغ
مَجۡمَعَ
majmaʿa
the junction
Vocabulary
Root: جمع
ٱلۡبَحۡرَيۡنِ
l-baḥrayni
(of) the two seas
Vocabulary
Root: بحر
أَوۡ
aw
or
Vocabulary
أَمۡضِيَ
amḍiya
I continue
Vocabulary
Root: مضي
حُقُبٗا
ḥuquban
(for) a long period
Vocabulary
Root: حقب

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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.