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Maryam 19:23

فَأَجَآءَهَا ٱلۡمَخَاضُ إِلَىٰ جِذۡعِ ٱلنَّخۡلَةِ قَالَتۡ يَٰلَيۡتَنِي مِتُّ قَبۡلَ هَٰذَا وَكُنتُ نَسۡيٗا مَّنسِيّٗا

Then the pains of labour drove her to the trunk of a palm tree. She cried, “Alas! I wish I had died before this, and was a thing long forgotten!”

Word by word

فَأَجَآءَهَا
fa-ajāahā
Then drove her
Vocabulary
Root: جيا
ٱلۡمَخَاضُ
l-makhāḍu
the pains of childbirth
Vocabulary
Root: مخض
إِلَىٰ
ilā
to
Vocabulary
جِذۡعِ
jidh'ʿi
(the) trunk
Vocabulary
Root: جذع
ٱلنَّخۡلَةِ
l-nakhlati
(of) the date-palm
Vocabulary
Root: نخل
قَالَتۡ
qālat
She said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
يَٰلَيۡتَنِي
yālaytanī
O! I wish
Vocabulary
مِتُّ
mittu
I (had) died
Vocabulary
Root: موت
قَبۡلَ
qabla
before
Vocabulary
Root: قبل
هَٰذَا
hādhā
this
Vocabulary
وَكُنتُ
wakuntu
and I was
Vocabulary
Root: كون
نَسۡيٗا
nasyan
(in) oblivion
Vocabulary
Root: نسي
مَّنسِيّٗا
mansiyyan
forgotten
Vocabulary
Root: نسي

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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.