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As-Saffat 37:141

فَسَاهَمَ فَكَانَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُدۡحَضِينَ

Then ˹to save it from sinking,˺ he drew straws ˹with other passengers˺. He lost ˹and was thrown overboard˺.

Word by word

فَسَاهَمَ
fasāhama
Then he drew lots
Vocabulary
Root: سهم
فَكَانَ
fakāna
and was
Vocabulary
Root: كون
مِنَ
mina
of
Vocabulary
ٱلۡمُدۡحَضِينَ
l-mud'ḥaḍīna
the losers
Vocabulary
Root: دحض

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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.