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Ali 'Imran 3:40

قَالَ رَبِّ أَنَّىٰ يَكُونُ لِي غُلَٰمٞ وَقَدۡ بَلَغَنِيَ ٱلۡكِبَرُ وَٱمۡرَأَتِي عَاقِرٞۖ قَالَ كَذَٰلِكَ ٱللَّهُ يَفۡعَلُ مَا يَشَآءُ

Zachariah exclaimed, “My Lord! How can I have a son when I am very old and my wife is barren?” He replied, “So will it be. Allah does what He wills.”

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
He said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
رَبِّ
rabbi
My Lord
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
أَنَّىٰ
annā
how
Vocabulary
Root: اني
يَكُونُ
yakūnu
can (there) be
Vocabulary
Root: كون
لِي
lī
for me
Vocabulary
غُلَٰمٞ
ghulāmun
a son
Vocabulary
Root: غلم
وَقَدۡ
waqad
and verily
Vocabulary
بَلَغَنِيَ
balaghaniya
has reached me
Vocabulary
Root: بلغ
ٱلۡكِبَرُ
l-kibaru
[the] old age
Vocabulary
Root: كبر
وَٱمۡرَأَتِي
wa-im'ra-atī
and my wife
Vocabulary
Root: مرا
عَاقِرٞۖ
ʿāqirun
(is) [a] barren
Vocabulary
Root: عقر
قَالَ
qāla
He said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
كَذَٰلِكَ
kadhālika
Thus
Vocabulary
ٱللَّهُ
l-lahu
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
يَفۡعَلُ
yafʿalu
does
Vocabulary
Root: فعل
مَا
mā
what
Vocabulary
يَشَآءُ
yashāu
He wills
Vocabulary
Root: شيا

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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.