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An-Naml 27:22

فَمَكَثَ غَيۡرَ بَعِيدٖ فَقَالَ أَحَطتُ بِمَا لَمۡ تُحِطۡ بِهِۦ وَجِئۡتُكَ مِن سَبَإِۭ بِنَبَإٖ يَقِينٍ

It was not long before the bird came and said, “I have found out something you do not know. I have just come to you from Sheba with sure news.

Word by word

فَمَكَثَ
famakatha
So he stayed
Vocabulary
Root: مكث
غَيۡرَ
ghayra
not
Vocabulary
Root: غير
بَعِيدٖ
baʿīdin
long
Vocabulary
Root: بعد
فَقَالَ
faqāla
and he said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
أَحَطتُ
aḥaṭtu
I have encompassed
Vocabulary
Root: حوط
بِمَا
bimā
that which
Vocabulary
لَمۡ
lam
not
Vocabulary
تُحِطۡ
tuḥiṭ
you have encompassed
Vocabulary
Root: حوط
بِهِۦ
bihi
it
Vocabulary
وَجِئۡتُكَ
waji'tuka
and I have come to you
Vocabulary
Root: جيا
مِن
min
from
Vocabulary
سَبَإِۭ
saba-in
Saba
Vocabulary
بِنَبَإٖ
binaba-in
with news
Vocabulary
Root: نبا
يَقِينٍ
yaqīnin
certain
Vocabulary
Root: يقن

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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.