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Al-'Ankabut 29:31

وَلَمَّا جَآءَتۡ رُسُلُنَآ إِبۡرَٰهِيمَ بِٱلۡبُشۡرَىٰ قَالُوٓاْ إِنَّا مُهۡلِكُوٓاْ أَهۡلِ هَٰذِهِ ٱلۡقَرۡيَةِۖ إِنَّ أَهۡلَهَا كَانُواْ ظَٰلِمِينَ

When Our messenger-angels came to Abraham with the good news ˹of the birth of Isaac˺, they said, “We are going to destroy the people of this city ˹of Sodom˺, for its people have persisted in wrongdoing.”

Word by word

وَلَمَّا
walammā
And when
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جَآءَتۡ
jāat
came
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Root: جيا
رُسُلُنَآ
rusulunā
Our messengers
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Root: رسل
إِبۡرَٰهِيمَ
ib'rāhīma
(to) Ibrahim
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بِٱلۡبُشۡرَىٰ
bil-bush'rā
with the glad tidings
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Root: بشر
قَالُوٓاْ
qālū
they said
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Root: قول
إِنَّا
innā
Indeed we
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مُهۡلِكُوٓاْ
muh'likū
(are) going to destroy
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Root: هلك
أَهۡلِ
ahli
(the) people
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Root: اهل
هَٰذِهِ
hādhihi
(of) this
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ٱلۡقَرۡيَةِۖ
l-qaryati
town
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Root: قري
إِنَّ
inna
Indeed
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أَهۡلَهَا
ahlahā
its people
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Root: اهل
كَانُواْ
kānū
are
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Root: كون
ظَٰلِمِينَ
ẓālimīna
wrongdoers
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Root: ظلم

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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.