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Maryam 19:8

قَالَ رَبِّ أَنَّىٰ يَكُونُ لِي غُلَٰمٞ وَكَانَتِ ٱمۡرَأَتِي عَاقِرٗا وَقَدۡ بَلَغۡتُ مِنَ ٱلۡكِبَرِ عِتِيّٗا

He wondered, “My Lord! How can I have a son when my wife is barren, and I have become extremely old?”

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
He said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
رَبِّ
rabbi
My Lord!
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
أَنَّىٰ
annā
How
Vocabulary
Root: اني
يَكُونُ
yakūnu
can
Vocabulary
Root: كون
لِي
lī
I have
Vocabulary
غُلَٰمٞ
ghulāmun
a boy
Vocabulary
Root: غلم
وَكَانَتِ
wakānati
while is
Vocabulary
Root: كون
ٱمۡرَأَتِي
im'ra-atī
my wife
Vocabulary
Root: مرا
عَاقِرٗا
ʿāqiran
barren
Vocabulary
Root: عقر
وَقَدۡ
waqad
and indeed
Vocabulary
بَلَغۡتُ
balaghtu
I have reached
Vocabulary
Root: بلغ
مِنَ
mina
of
Vocabulary
ٱلۡكِبَرِ
l-kibari
the old age
Vocabulary
Root: كبر
عِتِيّٗا
ʿitiyyan
extreme
Vocabulary
Root: عتو

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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.