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An-Naml 27:48

وَكَانَ فِي ٱلۡمَدِينَةِ تِسۡعَةُ رَهۡطٖ يُفۡسِدُونَ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَلَا يُصۡلِحُونَ

And there were in the city nine ˹elite˺ men who spread corruption in the land, never doing what is right.

Word by word

وَكَانَ
wakāna
And were
Vocabulary
Root: كون
فِي
fī
in
Vocabulary
ٱلۡمَدِينَةِ
l-madīnati
the city
Vocabulary
Root: مدن
تِسۡعَةُ
tis'ʿatu
nine
Vocabulary
Root: تسع
رَهۡطٖ
rahṭin
family heads
Vocabulary
Root: رهط
يُفۡسِدُونَ
yuf'sidūna
they were spreading corruption
Vocabulary
Root: فسد
فِي
fī
in
Vocabulary
ٱلۡأَرۡضِ
l-arḍi
the land
Vocabulary
Root: ارض
وَلَا
walā
and not
Vocabulary
يُصۡلِحُونَ
yuṣ'liḥūna
reforming
Vocabulary
Root: صلح

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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.