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Al-Qasas 28:23

وَلَمَّا وَرَدَ مَآءَ مَدۡيَنَ وَجَدَ عَلَيۡهِ أُمَّةٗ مِّنَ ٱلنَّاسِ يَسۡقُونَ وَوَجَدَ مِن دُونِهِمُ ٱمۡرَأَتَيۡنِ تَذُودَانِۖ قَالَ مَا خَطۡبُكُمَاۖ قَالَتَا لَا نَسۡقِي حَتَّىٰ يُصۡدِرَ ٱلرِّعَآءُۖ وَأَبُونَا شَيۡخٞ كَبِيرٞ

When he arrived at the well of Midian, he found a group of people watering ˹their herds˺. Apart from them, he noticed two women holding back ˹their herd˺. He asked ˹them˺, “What is the problem?” They replied, “We cannot water ˹our animals˺ until the ˹other˺ shepherds are done, for our father is a very old man.”

Word by word

وَلَمَّا
walammā
And when
Vocabulary
وَرَدَ
warada
he came
Vocabulary
Root: ورد
مَآءَ
māa
(to the) water
Vocabulary
Root: موه
مَدۡيَنَ
madyana
(of) Madyan
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وَجَدَ
wajada
he found
Vocabulary
Root: وجد
عَلَيۡهِ
ʿalayhi
on it
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أُمَّةٗ
ummatan
a group
Vocabulary
Root: امم
مِّنَ
mina
of
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ٱلنَّاسِ
l-nāsi
men
Vocabulary
Root: نوس
يَسۡقُونَ
yasqūna
watering
Vocabulary
Root: سقي
وَوَجَدَ
wawajada
and he found
Vocabulary
Root: وجد
مِن
min
besides them
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دُونِهِمُ
dūnihimu
besides them
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Root: دون
ٱمۡرَأَتَيۡنِ
im'ra-atayni
two women
Vocabulary
Root: مرا
تَذُودَانِۖ
tadhūdāni
keeping back
Vocabulary
Root: ذود
قَالَ
qāla
He said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
مَا
mā
What
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خَطۡبُكُمَاۖ
khaṭbukumā
(is the) matter with both of you
Vocabulary
Root: خطب
قَالَتَا
qālatā
They said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
لَا
lā
We cannot water
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نَسۡقِي
nasqī
We cannot water
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Root: سقي
حَتَّىٰ
ḥattā
until
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يُصۡدِرَ
yuṣ'dira
take away
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Root: صدر
ٱلرِّعَآءُۖ
l-riʿāu
the shepherds
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Root: رعي
وَأَبُونَا
wa-abūnā
and our father
Vocabulary
Root: ابو
شَيۡخٞ
shaykhun
(is) a very old man
Vocabulary
Root: شيخ
كَبِيرٞ
kabīrun
(is) a very old man
Vocabulary
Root: كبر

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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.