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Al-Anbya 21:17

لَوۡ أَرَدۡنَآ أَن نَّتَّخِذَ لَهۡوٗا لَّٱتَّخَذۡنَٰهُ مِن لَّدُنَّآ إِن كُنَّا فَٰعِلِينَ

Had We intended to take ˹some˺ amusement, We could have found it in Our presence, if that had been Our Will.

Word by word

لَوۡ
law
If
Vocabulary
أَرَدۡنَآ
aradnā
We intended
Vocabulary
Root: رود
أَن
an
that
Vocabulary
نَّتَّخِذَ
nattakhidha
We take
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
لَهۡوٗا
lahwan
a pastime
Vocabulary
Root: لهو
لَّٱتَّخَذۡنَٰهُ
la-ittakhadhnāhu
surely We (could have) taken it
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
مِن
min
from
Vocabulary
لَّدُنَّآ
ladunnā
Us
Vocabulary
Root: لدن
إِن
in
if
Vocabulary
كُنَّا
kunnā
We were
Vocabulary
Root: كون
فَٰعِلِينَ
fāʿilīna
doers
Vocabulary
Root: فعل

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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.