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Al-Qasas 28:11

وَقَالَتۡ لِأُخۡتِهِۦ قُصِّيهِۖ فَبَصُرَتۡ بِهِۦ عَن جُنُبٖ وَهُمۡ لَا يَشۡعُرُونَ

And she said to his sister, “Keep track of him!” So she watched him from a distance, while they were unaware.

Word by word

وَقَالَتۡ
waqālat
And she said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
لِأُخۡتِهِۦ
li-ukh'tihi
to his sister
Vocabulary
قُصِّيهِۖ
quṣṣīhi
Follow him
Vocabulary
Root: قصص
فَبَصُرَتۡ
fabaṣurat
So she watched
Vocabulary
Root: بصر
بِهِۦ
bihi
him
Vocabulary
عَن
ʿan
from
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جُنُبٖ
junubin
a distance
Vocabulary
Root: جنب
وَهُمۡ
wahum
while they
Vocabulary
لَا
lā
(did) not
Vocabulary
يَشۡعُرُونَ
yashʿurūna
perceive
Vocabulary
Root: شعر

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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.