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Al-Anbya 21:65

ثُمَّ نُكِسُواْ عَلَىٰ رُءُوسِهِمۡ لَقَدۡ عَلِمۡتَ مَا هَـٰٓؤُلَآءِ يَنطِقُونَ

Then they ˹quickly˺ regressed to their ˹original˺ mind-set, ˹arguing,˺ “You already know that those ˹idols˺ cannot talk.”

Word by word

ثُمَّ
thumma
Then
Vocabulary
نُكِسُواْ
nukisū
they were turned
Vocabulary
Root: نكس
عَلَىٰ
ʿalā
on
Vocabulary
رُءُوسِهِمۡ
ruūsihim
their heads
Vocabulary
Root: راس
لَقَدۡ
laqad
Verily
Vocabulary
عَلِمۡتَ
ʿalim'ta
you know
Vocabulary
Root: علم
مَا
mā
not
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هَـٰٓؤُلَآءِ
hāulāi
these
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يَنطِقُونَ
yanṭiqūna
(can) 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.