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An-Naml 27:20

وَتَفَقَّدَ ٱلطَّيۡرَ فَقَالَ مَالِيَ لَآ أَرَى ٱلۡهُدۡهُدَ أَمۡ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلۡغَآئِبِينَ

˹One day˺ he inspected the birds, and wondered, “Why is it that I cannot see the hoopoe? Or could he be absent?

Word by word

وَتَفَقَّدَ
watafaqqada
And he inspected
Vocabulary
Root: فقد
الطَّيْرَ
l-ṭayra
the birds
Vocabulary
Root: طير
فَقَالَ
faqāla
and said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
مَا
mā
Why
Vocabulary
لِيَ
liya
Why
Vocabulary
لَا
lā
not
Vocabulary
أَرَى
arā
I see
Vocabulary
Root: راي
الْهُدْهُدَ
l-hud'huda
the hoopoe
Vocabulary
Root: هدهد
أَمْ
am
or
Vocabulary
كَانَ
kāna
is he
Vocabulary
Root: كون
مِنَ
mina
from
Vocabulary
الْغَائِبِينَ
l-ghāibīna
the absent
Vocabulary
Root: غيب

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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.