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Ya-Sin 36:78

وَضَرَبَ لَنَا مَثَلٗا وَنَسِيَ خَلۡقَهُۥۖ قَالَ مَن يُحۡيِ ٱلۡعِظَٰمَ وَهِيَ رَمِيمٞ

And they argue with Us—forgetting they were created—saying, “Who will give life to decayed bones?”

Word by word

وَضَرَبَ
waḍaraba
And he sets forth
Vocabulary
Root: ضرب
لَنَا
lanā
for Us
Vocabulary
مَثَلٗا
mathalan
an example
Vocabulary
Root: مثل
وَنَسِيَ
wanasiya
and forgets
Vocabulary
Root: نسي
خَلۡقَهُۥۖ
khalqahu
his (own) creation
Vocabulary
قَالَ
qāla
He says
Vocabulary
Root: قول
مَن
man
Who
Vocabulary
يُحۡيِ
yuḥ'yī
will give life
Vocabulary
Root: حيي
ٱلۡعِظَٰمَ
l-ʿiẓāma
(to) the bones
Vocabulary
Root: عظم
وَهِيَ
wahiya
while they
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رَمِيمٞ
ramīmun
(are) decomposed
Vocabulary
Root: رمم

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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.