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Ali 'Imran 3:67

مَا كَانَ إِبۡرَٰهِيمُ يَهُودِيّٗا وَلَا نَصۡرَانِيّٗا وَلَٰكِن كَانَ حَنِيفٗا مُّسۡلِمٗا وَمَا كَانَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُشۡرِكِينَ

Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian; he submitted in all uprightness and was not a polytheist.

Word by word

مَا
mā
Not
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كَانَ
kāna
was
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Root: كون
إِبۡرَٰهِيمُ
ib'rāhīmu
Ibrahim
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يَهُودِيّٗا
yahūdiyyan
a Jew
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وَلَا
walā
and not
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نَصۡرَانِيّٗا
naṣrāniyyan
a Christian
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Root: نصر
وَلَٰكِن
walākin
and but
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كَانَ
kāna
he was
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Root: كون
حَنِيفٗا
ḥanīfan
a true
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Root: حنف
مُّسۡلِمٗا
mus'liman
Muslim
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Root: سلم
وَمَا
wamā
and not
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كَانَ
kāna
he was
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Root: كون
مِنَ
mina
from
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ٱلۡمُشۡرِكِينَ
l-mush'rikīna
the polytheists
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Root: شرك

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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.