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An-Nur 24:16

وَلَوۡلَآ إِذۡ سَمِعۡتُمُوهُ قُلۡتُم مَّا يَكُونُ لَنَآ أَن نَّتَكَلَّمَ بِهَٰذَا سُبۡحَٰنَكَ هَٰذَا بُهۡتَٰنٌ عَظِيمٞ

If only you had said upon hearing it, “How can we speak about such a thing! Glory be to You ˹O Lord˺! This is a heinous slander!”

Word by word

وَلَوۡلَآ
walawlā
And why not
Vocabulary
إِذۡ
idh
when
Vocabulary
سَمِعۡتُمُوهُ
samiʿ'tumūhu
you heard it
Vocabulary
Root: سمع
قُلۡتُم
qul'tum
you said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
مَّا
mā
Not
Vocabulary
يَكُونُ
yakūnu
it is
Vocabulary
Root: كون
لَنَآ
lanā
for us
Vocabulary
أَن
an
that
Vocabulary
نَّتَكَلَّمَ
natakallama
we speak
Vocabulary
Root: كلم
بِهَٰذَا
bihādhā
of this
Vocabulary
سُبۡحَٰنَكَ
sub'ḥānaka
Glory be to You!
Vocabulary
Root: سبح
هَٰذَا
hādhā
This
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بُهۡتَٰنٌ
buh'tānun
(is) a slander
Vocabulary
Root: بهت
عَظِيمٞ
ʿaẓīmun
great
Vocabulary
Root: عظم

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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.