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Al-Qasas 28:26

قَالَتۡ إِحۡدَىٰهُمَا يَـٰٓأَبَتِ ٱسۡتَـٔۡجِرۡهُۖ إِنَّ خَيۡرَ مَنِ ٱسۡتَـٔۡجَرۡتَ ٱلۡقَوِيُّ ٱلۡأَمِينُ

One of the two daughters suggested, “O my dear father! Hire him. The best man for employment is definitely the strong and trustworthy ˹one˺.”

Word by word

قَالَتۡ
qālat
Said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
إِحۡدَىٰهُمَا
iḥ'dāhumā
one of them
Vocabulary
Root: احد
يَـٰٓأَبَتِ
yāabati
O my father!
Vocabulary
Root: ابو
ٱسۡتَـٔۡجِرۡهُۖ
is'tajir'hu
Hire him
Vocabulary
Root: اجر
إِنَّ
inna
Indeed
Vocabulary
خَيۡرَ
khayra
(the) best
Vocabulary
Root: خير
مَنِ
mani
whom
Vocabulary
ٱسۡتَـٔۡجَرۡتَ
is'tajarta
you (can) hire
Vocabulary
Root: اجر
ٱلۡقَوِيُّ
l-qawiyu
(is) the strong
Vocabulary
Root: قوي
ٱلۡأَمِينُ
l-amīnu
the trustworthy
Vocabulary
Root: امن

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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.