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Maryam 19:20

قَالَتۡ أَنَّىٰ يَكُونُ لِي غُلَٰمٞ وَلَمۡ يَمۡسَسۡنِي بَشَرٞ وَلَمۡ أَكُ بَغِيّٗا

She wondered, “How can I have a son when no man has ever touched me, nor am I unchaste?”

Word by word

قَالَتۡ
qālat
She said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
أَنَّىٰ
annā
How
Vocabulary
Root: اني
يَكُونُ
yakūnu
can be
Vocabulary
Root: كون
لِي
lī
for me
Vocabulary
غُلَٰمٞ
ghulāmun
a son
Vocabulary
Root: غلم
وَلَمۡ
walam
when not
Vocabulary
يَمۡسَسۡنِي
yamsasnī
has touched me
Vocabulary
Root: مسس
بَشَرٞ
basharun
a man
Vocabulary
Root: بشر
وَلَمۡ
walam
and not
Vocabulary
أَكُ
aku
I am
Vocabulary
Root: كون
بَغِيّٗا
baghiyyan
unchaste
Vocabulary
Root: بغي

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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.