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Al-Kahf 18:97

فَمَا ٱسۡطَٰعُوٓاْ أَن يَظۡهَرُوهُ وَمَا ٱسۡتَطَٰعُواْ لَهُۥ نَقۡبٗا

And so the enemies could neither scale nor tunnel through it.

Word by word

فَمَا
famā
So not
Vocabulary
ٱسۡطَٰعُوٓاْ
is'ṭāʿū
they were able
Vocabulary
Root: طوع
أَن
an
to
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يَظۡهَرُوهُ
yaẓharūhu
scale it
Vocabulary
Root: ظهر
وَمَا
wamā
and not
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ٱسۡتَطَٰعُواْ
is'taṭāʿū
they were able
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Root: طوع
لَهُۥ
lahu
in it
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نَقۡبٗا
naqban
(to do) any penetration
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Root: نقب

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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.