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Al-Kahf 18:81

فَأَرَدۡنَآ أَن يُبۡدِلَهُمَا رَبُّهُمَا خَيۡرٗا مِّنۡهُ زَكَوٰةٗ وَأَقۡرَبَ رُحۡمٗا

So we hoped that their Lord would give them another, more virtuous and caring in his place.

Word by word

فَأَرَدۡنَآ
fa-aradnā
So we intended
Vocabulary
Root: رود
أَن
an
that
Vocabulary
يُبۡدِلَهُمَا
yub'dilahumā
would change for them
Vocabulary
Root: بدل
رَبُّهُمَا
rabbuhumā
their Lord
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
خَيۡرٗا
khayran
a better
Vocabulary
Root: خير
مِّنۡهُ
min'hu
than him
Vocabulary
زَكَوٰةٗ
zakatan
(in) purity
Vocabulary
Root: زكو
وَأَقۡرَبَ
wa-aqraba
and nearer
Vocabulary
Root: قرب
رُحۡمٗا
ruḥ'man
(in) affection
Vocabulary
Root: رحم

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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.