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Al-Anbya 21:63

قَالَ بَلۡ فَعَلَهُۥ كَبِيرُهُمۡ هَٰذَا فَسۡـَٔلُوهُمۡ إِن كَانُواْ يَنطِقُونَ

He replied ˹sarcastically˺, “No, this one—the biggest of them—did it! So ask them, if they can talk!”

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
He said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
بَلۡ
bal
Nay
Vocabulary
فَعَلَهُۥ
faʿalahu
(some doer) did it
Vocabulary
كَبِيرُهُمۡ
kabīruhum
Their chief
Vocabulary
Root: كبر
هَٰذَا
hādhā
(is) this
Vocabulary
فَسۡـَٔلُوهُمۡ
fasalūhum
So ask them
Vocabulary
Root: سال
إِن
in
if
Vocabulary
كَانُواْ
kānū
they (can)
Vocabulary
Root: كون
يَنطِقُونَ
yanṭiqūna
speak
Vocabulary
Root: نطق

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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.