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Al-Kahf 18:61

فَلَمَّا بَلَغَا مَجۡمَعَ بَيۡنِهِمَا نَسِيَا حُوتَهُمَا فَٱتَّخَذَ سَبِيلَهُۥ فِي ٱلۡبَحۡرِ سَرَبٗا

But when they ˹finally˺ reached the point where the seas met, they forgot their ˹salted˺ fish, and it made its way into the sea, slipping away ˹wondrously˺.

Word by word

فَلَمَّا
falammā
But when
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بَلَغَا
balaghā
they reached
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Root: بلغ
مَجۡمَعَ
majmaʿa
the junction
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Root: جمع
بَيۡنِهِمَا
baynihimā
between them
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Root: بين
نَسِيَا
nasiyā
they forgot
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Root: نسي
حُوتَهُمَا
ḥūtahumā
their fish
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Root: حوت
فَٱتَّخَذَ
fa-ittakhadha
and it took
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Root: اخذ
سَبِيلَهُۥ
sabīlahu
its way
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فِي
fī
into
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ٱلۡبَحۡرِ
l-baḥri
the sea
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Root: بحر
سَرَبٗا
saraban
slipping away
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Root: سرب

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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.