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Al-Kahf 18:64

قَالَ ذَٰلِكَ مَا كُنَّا نَبۡغِۚ فَٱرۡتَدَّا عَلَىٰٓ ءَاثَارِهِمَا قَصَصٗا

Moses responded, “That is ˹exactly˺ what we were looking for.” So they returned, retracing their footsteps.

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
He said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
ذَٰلِكَ
dhālika
That
Vocabulary
مَا
mā
(is) what
Vocabulary
كُنَّا
kunnā
we were
Vocabulary
Root: كون
نَبۡغِۚ
nabghi
seeking
Vocabulary
Root: بغي
فَٱرۡتَدَّا
fa-ir'taddā
So they returned
Vocabulary
Root: ردد
عَلَىٰٓ
ʿalā
on
Vocabulary
ءَاثَارِهِمَا
āthārihimā
their footprints
Vocabulary
Root: اثر
قَصَصٗا
qaṣaṣan
retracing
Vocabulary
Root: قصص

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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.