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An-Naml 27:39

قَالَ عِفۡرِيتٞ مِّنَ ٱلۡجِنِّ أَنَا۠ ءَاتِيكَ بِهِۦ قَبۡلَ أَن تَقُومَ مِن مَّقَامِكَۖ وَإِنِّي عَلَيۡهِ لَقَوِيٌّ أَمِينٞ

One mighty jinn responded, “I can bring it to you before you rise from this council of yours. And I am quite strong and trustworthy for this ˹task˺.”

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
Said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
عِفۡرِيتٞ
ʿif'rītun
a strong one
Vocabulary
Root: عفر
مِّنَ
mina
of
Vocabulary
ٱلۡجِنِّ
l-jini
the jinn
Vocabulary
Root: جنن
أَنَا۠
anā
I
Vocabulary
ءَاتِيكَ
ātīka
will bring it to you
Vocabulary
Root: اتي
بِهِۦ
bihi
will bring it to you
Vocabulary
قَبۡلَ
qabla
before
Vocabulary
Root: قبل
أَن
an
[that]
Vocabulary
تَقُومَ
taqūma
you rise
Vocabulary
Root: قوم
مِن
min
from
Vocabulary
مَّقَامِكَۖ
maqāmika
your place
Vocabulary
Root: قوم
وَإِنِّي
wa-innī
And indeed, I am
Vocabulary
عَلَيۡهِ
ʿalayhi
for it
Vocabulary
لَقَوِيٌّ
laqawiyyun
surely, strong
Vocabulary
Root: قوي
أَمِينٞ
amīnun
trustworthy
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.