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Al-Baqarah 2:78

وَمِنۡهُمۡ أُمِّيُّونَ لَا يَعۡلَمُونَ ٱلۡكِتَٰبَ إِلَّآ أَمَانِيَّ وَإِنۡ هُمۡ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ

And among them are the illiterate who know nothing about the Scripture except lies, and ˹so˺ they ˹wishfully˺ speculate.

Word by word

وَمِنۡهُمۡ
wamin'hum
And among them
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أُمِّيُّونَ
ummiyyūna
(are) unlettered ones
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Root: امم
لَا
lā
(who) do not
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يَعۡلَمُونَ
yaʿlamūna
know
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Root: علم
ٱلۡكِتَٰبَ
l-kitāba
the book
Vocabulary
Root: كتب
إِلَّآ
illā
except
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أَمَانِيَّ
amāniyya
wishful thinking
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Root: مني
وَإِنۡ
wa-in
and not
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هُمۡ
hum
they
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إِلَّا
illā
(do anything) except
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يَظُنُّونَ
yaẓunnūna
guess
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Root: ظنن

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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.