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An-Naml 27:55

أَئِنَّكُمۡ لَتَأۡتُونَ ٱلرِّجَالَ شَهۡوَةٗ مِّن دُونِ ٱلنِّسَآءِۚ بَلۡ أَنتُمۡ قَوۡمٞ تَجۡهَلُونَ

Do you really lust after men instead of women? In fact, you are ˹only˺ a people acting ignorantly.”

Word by word

أَئِنَّكُمۡ
a-innakum
Why do you
Vocabulary
لَتَأۡتُونَ
latatūna
approach
Vocabulary
Root: اتي
ٱلرِّجَالَ
l-rijāla
the men
Vocabulary
Root: رجل
شَهۡوَةٗ
shahwatan
(with) lust
Vocabulary
Root: شهو
مِّن
min
instead of
Vocabulary
دُونِ
dūni
instead of
Vocabulary
Root: دون
ٱلنِّسَآءِۚ
l-nisāi
the women
Vocabulary
Root: نسو
بَلۡ
bal
Nay
Vocabulary
أَنتُمۡ
antum
you
Vocabulary
قَوۡمٞ
qawmun
(are) a people
Vocabulary
Root: قوم
تَجۡهَلُونَ
tajhalūna
ignorant
Vocabulary
Root: جهل

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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.