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Luqman 31:19

وَٱقۡصِدۡ فِي مَشۡيِكَ وَٱغۡضُضۡ مِن صَوۡتِكَۚ إِنَّ أَنكَرَ ٱلۡأَصۡوَٰتِ لَصَوۡتُ ٱلۡحَمِيرِ

Be moderate in your pace. And lower your voice, for the ugliest of all voices is certainly the braying of donkeys.”

Word by word

وَٱقۡصِدۡ
wa-iq'ṣid
And be moderate
Vocabulary
Root: قصد
فِي
fī
in
Vocabulary
مَشۡيِكَ
mashyika
your pace
Vocabulary
Root: مشي
وَٱغۡضُضۡ
wa-ugh'ḍuḍ
and lower
Vocabulary
Root: غضض
مِن
min
[of]
Vocabulary
صَوۡتِكَۚ
ṣawtika
your voice
Vocabulary
Root: صوت
إِنَّ
inna
Indeed
Vocabulary
أَنكَرَ
ankara
(the) harshest
Vocabulary
Root: نكر
ٱلۡأَصۡوَٰتِ
l-aṣwāti
(of all) sounds
Vocabulary
Root: صوت
لَصَوۡتُ
laṣawtu
(is) surely (the) voice
Vocabulary
Root: صوت
ٱلۡحَمِيرِ
l-ḥamīri
(of) the donkeys
Vocabulary
Root: حمر

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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.