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Maryam 19:17

فَٱتَّخَذَتۡ مِن دُونِهِمۡ حِجَابٗا فَأَرۡسَلۡنَآ إِلَيۡهَا رُوحَنَا فَتَمَثَّلَ لَهَا بَشَرٗا سَوِيّٗا

screening herself off from them. Then We sent to her Our angel, ˹Gabriel,˺ appearing before her as a man, perfectly formed.

Word by word

فَٱتَّخَذَتۡ
fa-ittakhadhat
Then she took
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
مِن
min
from them
Vocabulary
دُونِهِمۡ
dūnihim
from them
Vocabulary
Root: دون
حِجَابٗا
ḥijāban
a screen
Vocabulary
Root: حجب
فَأَرۡسَلۡنَآ
fa-arsalnā
Then We sent
Vocabulary
Root: رسل
إِلَيۡهَا
ilayhā
to her
Vocabulary
رُوحَنَا
rūḥanā
Our Spirit
Vocabulary
Root: روح
فَتَمَثَّلَ
fatamathala
then he assumed the likeness
Vocabulary
Root: مثل
لَهَا
lahā
for her
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بَشَرٗا
basharan
(of) a man
Vocabulary
Root: بشر
سَوِيّٗا
sawiyyan
well-proportioned
Vocabulary
Root: سوي

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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.