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Al-Kahf 18:83

وَيَسۡـَٔلُونَكَ عَن ذِي ٱلۡقَرۡنَيۡنِۖ قُلۡ سَأَتۡلُواْ عَلَيۡكُم مِّنۡهُ ذِكۡرًا

They ask you ˹O Prophet˺ about Ⱬul-Qarnain. Say, “I will relate to you something of his narrative.”

Word by word

وَيَسۡـَٔلُونَكَ
wayasalūnaka
And they ask you
Vocabulary
Root: سال
عَن
ʿan
about
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ذِي
dhī
Dhul-qarnain
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ٱلۡقَرۡنَيۡنِۖ
l-qarnayni
Dhul-qarnain
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Root: قرن
قُلۡ
qul
Say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
سَأَتۡلُواْ
sa-atlū
I will recite
Vocabulary
Root: تلو
عَلَيۡكُم
ʿalaykum
to you
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مِّنۡهُ
min'hu
about him
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ذِكۡرًا
dhik'ran
a remembrance
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Root: ذكر

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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.