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Al-Mu'minun 23:113

قَالُواْ لَبِثۡنَا يَوۡمًا أَوۡ بَعۡضَ يَوۡمٖ فَسۡـَٔلِ ٱلۡعَآدِّينَ

They will reply, “We remained ˹only˺ a day or part of a day. But ask those who kept count.”

Word by word

قَالُواْ
qālū
They will say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
لَبِثۡنَا
labith'nā
We remained
Vocabulary
Root: لبث
يَوۡمًا
yawman
a day
Vocabulary
Root: يوم
أَوۡ
aw
or
Vocabulary
بَعۡضَ
baʿḍa
a part
Vocabulary
Root: بعض
يَوۡمٖ
yawmin
(of) a day
Vocabulary
Root: يوم
فَسۡـَٔلِ
fasali
but ask
Vocabulary
Root: سال
ٱلۡعَآدِّينَ
l-ʿādīna
those who keep count
Vocabulary
Root: عدد

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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.