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An-Naml 27:56

۞فَمَا كَانَ جَوَابَ قَوۡمِهِۦٓ إِلَّآ أَن قَالُوٓاْ أَخۡرِجُوٓاْ ءَالَ لُوطٖ مِّن قَرۡيَتِكُمۡۖ إِنَّهُمۡ أُنَاسٞ يَتَطَهَّرُونَ

But his people’s only response was to say, “Expel Lot’s followers from your land! They are a people who wish to remain chaste!”

Word by word

۞فَمَا
famā
But not
Vocabulary
كَانَ
kāna
was
Vocabulary
Root: كون
جَوَابَ
jawāba
(the) answer
Vocabulary
Root: جوب
قَوۡمِهِۦٓ
qawmihi
(of) his people
Vocabulary
إِلَّآ
illā
except
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أَن
an
that
Vocabulary
قَالُوٓاْ
qālū
they said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
أَخۡرِجُوٓاْ
akhrijū
Drive out
Vocabulary
Root: خرج
ءَالَ
āla
(the) family
Vocabulary
Root: اول
لُوطٖ
lūṭin
(of) Lut
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مِّن
min
from
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قَرۡيَتِكُمۡۖ
qaryatikum
your town
Vocabulary
Root: قري
إِنَّهُمۡ
innahum
Indeed they
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أُنَاسٞ
unāsun
(are) people
Vocabulary
Root: انس
يَتَطَهَّرُونَ
yataṭahharūna
who keep clean and pure
Vocabulary
Root: طهر

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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.