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Al-Mu'minun 23:81

بَلۡ قَالُواْ مِثۡلَ مَا قَالَ ٱلۡأَوَّلُونَ

But they ˹just˺ say what their predecessors said.

Word by word

بَلۡ
bal
Nay
Vocabulary
قَالُواْ
qālū
they say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
مِثۡلَ
mith'la
(the) like
Vocabulary
Root: مثل
مَا
mā
(of) what
Vocabulary
قَالَ
qāla
said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
ٱلۡأَوَّلُونَ
l-awalūna
the former (people)
Vocabulary
Root: اول

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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.