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Al-Anbya 21:52

إِذۡ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوۡمِهِۦ مَا هَٰذِهِ ٱلتَّمَاثِيلُ ٱلَّتِيٓ أَنتُمۡ لَهَا عَٰكِفُونَ

˹Remember˺ when he questioned his father and his people, “What are these statues to which you are so devoted?”

Word by word

إِذۡ
idh
When
Vocabulary
قَالَ
qāla
he said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
لِأَبِيهِ
li-abīhi
to his father
Vocabulary
Root: ابو
وَقَوۡمِهِۦ
waqawmihi
and his people
Vocabulary
مَا
mā
What
Vocabulary
هَٰذِهِ
hādhihi
(are) these
Vocabulary
ٱلتَّمَاثِيلُ
l-tamāthīlu
[the] statues
Vocabulary
Root: مثل
ٱلَّتِيٓ
allatī
which
Vocabulary
أَنتُمۡ
antum
you
Vocabulary
لَهَا
lahā
to it
Vocabulary
عَٰكِفُونَ
ʿākifūna
(are) devoted
Vocabulary
Root: عكف

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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.