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Al-Kahf 18:79

أَمَّا ٱلسَّفِينَةُ فَكَانَتۡ لِمَسَٰكِينَ يَعۡمَلُونَ فِي ٱلۡبَحۡرِ فَأَرَدتُّ أَنۡ أَعِيبَهَا وَكَانَ وَرَآءَهُم مَّلِكٞ يَأۡخُذُ كُلَّ سَفِينَةٍ غَصۡبٗا

“As for the ship, it belonged to some poor people, working at sea. So I intended to damage it, for there was a ˹tyrant˺ king ahead of them who seizes every ˹good˺ ship by force.

Word by word

أَمَّا
ammā
As for
Vocabulary
ٱلسَّفِينَةُ
l-safīnatu
the ship
Vocabulary
Root: سفن
فَكَانَتۡ
fakānat
it was
Vocabulary
Root: كون
لِمَسَٰكِينَ
limasākīna
of (the) poor people
Vocabulary
Root: سكن
يَعۡمَلُونَ
yaʿmalūna
working
Vocabulary
Root: عمل
فِي
fī
in
Vocabulary
ٱلۡبَحۡرِ
l-baḥri
the sea
Vocabulary
Root: بحر
فَأَرَدتُّ
fa-aradttu
So I intended
Vocabulary
Root: رود
أَنۡ
an
that
Vocabulary
أَعِيبَهَا
aʿībahā
I cause defect (in) it
Vocabulary
Root: عيب
وَكَانَ
wakāna
(as there) was
Vocabulary
Root: كون
وَرَآءَهُم
warāahum
after them
Vocabulary
Root: وري
مَّلِكٞ
malikun
a king
Vocabulary
Root: ملك
يَأۡخُذُ
yakhudhu
who seized
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
كُلَّ
kulla
every
Vocabulary
Root: كلل
سَفِينَةٍ
safīnatin
ship
Vocabulary
Root: سفن
غَصۡبٗا
ghaṣban
(by) force
Vocabulary
Root: غصب

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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.