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An-Nur 24:3

ٱلزَّانِي لَا يَنكِحُ إِلَّا زَانِيَةً أَوۡ مُشۡرِكَةٗ وَٱلزَّانِيَةُ لَا يَنكِحُهَآ إِلَّا زَانٍ أَوۡ مُشۡرِكٞۚ وَحُرِّمَ ذَٰلِكَ عَلَى ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ

A male fornicator would only marry a female fornicator or idolatress. And a female fornicator would only be married to a fornicator or idolater. This is ˹all˺ forbidden to the believers.

Word by word

ٱلزَّانِي
al-zānī
The fornicator
Vocabulary
Root: زني
لَا
lā
(will) not
Vocabulary
يَنكِحُ
yankiḥu
marry
Vocabulary
Root: نكح
إِلَّا
illā
except
Vocabulary
زَانِيَةً
zāniyatan
a fornicatress
Vocabulary
Root: زني
أَوۡ
aw
or
Vocabulary
مُشۡرِكَةٗ
mush'rikatan
a polytheist woman
Vocabulary
Root: شرك
وَٱلزَّانِيَةُ
wal-zāniyatu
and the fornicatress
Vocabulary
Root: زني
لَا
lā
(will) not
Vocabulary
يَنكِحُهَآ
yankiḥuhā
marry her
Vocabulary
Root: نكح
إِلَّا
illā
except
Vocabulary
زَانٍ
zānin
a fornicator
Vocabulary
Root: زني
أَوۡ
aw
or
Vocabulary
مُشۡرِكٞۚ
mush'rikun
a polytheist man
Vocabulary
Root: شرك
وَحُرِّمَ
waḥurrima
And is forbidden
Vocabulary
Root: حرم
ذَٰلِكَ
dhālika
that
Vocabulary
عَلَى
ʿalā
to
Vocabulary
ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ
l-mu'minīna
the believers
Vocabulary
Root: امن

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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.