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Al-Mu'minun 23:83

لَقَدۡ وُعِدۡنَا نَحۡنُ وَءَابَآؤُنَا هَٰذَا مِن قَبۡلُ إِنۡ هَٰذَآ إِلَّآ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ

We have already been promised this, as well as our forefathers earlier. This is nothing but ancient fables!”

Word by word

لَقَدۡ
laqad
Verily
Vocabulary
وُعِدۡنَا
wuʿid'nā
we have been promised
Vocabulary
Root: وعد
نَحۡنُ
naḥnu
[we]
Vocabulary
وَءَابَآؤُنَا
waābāunā
and our forefathers
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Root: ابو
هَٰذَا
hādhā
this
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مِن
min
before
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قَبۡلُ
qablu
before
Vocabulary
Root: قبل
إِنۡ
in
not
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هَٰذَآ
hādhā
(is) this
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إِلَّآ
illā
but
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أَسَٰطِيرُ
asāṭīru
(the) tales
Vocabulary
Root: سطر
ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ
l-awalīna
(of) 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.