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Maryam 19:7

يَٰزَكَرِيَّآ إِنَّا نُبَشِّرُكَ بِغُلَٰمٍ ٱسۡمُهُۥ يَحۡيَىٰ لَمۡ نَجۡعَل لَّهُۥ مِن قَبۡلُ سَمِيّٗا

˹The angels announced,˺ “O Zachariah! Indeed, We give you the good news of ˹the birth of˺ a son, whose name will be John—a name We have not given to anyone before.”

Word by word

يَٰزَكَرِيَّآ
yāzakariyyā
O Zakariya
Vocabulary
إِنَّا
innā
Indeed, We
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نُبَشِّرُكَ
nubashiruka
[We] give you glad tidings
Vocabulary
Root: بشر
بِغُلَٰمٍ
bighulāmin
of a boy
Vocabulary
Root: غلم
ٱسۡمُهُۥ
us'muhu
his name
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يَحۡيَىٰ
yaḥyā
(will be) Yahya
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لَمۡ
lam
not
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نَجۡعَل
najʿal
We (have) assigned
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Root: جعل
لَّهُۥ
lahu
[for] it
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مِن
min
before
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قَبۡلُ
qablu
before
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Root: قبل
سَمِيّٗا
samiyyan
(this) name
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Root: سمو

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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.