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As-Saffat 37:36

وَيَقُولُونَ أَئِنَّا لَتَارِكُوٓاْ ءَالِهَتِنَا لِشَاعِرٖ مَّجۡنُونِۭ

and argued, “Should we really abandon our gods for a mad poet?”

Word by word

وَيَقُولُونَ
wayaqūlūna
And they say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
أَئِنَّا
a-innā
Are we
Vocabulary
لَتَارِكُوٓاْ
latārikū
to leave
Vocabulary
Root: ترك
ءَالِهَتِنَا
ālihatinā
our gods
Vocabulary
Root: اله
لِشَاعِرٖ
lishāʿirin
for a poet
Vocabulary
Root: شعر
مَّجۡنُونِۭ
majnūnin
mad
Vocabulary
Root: جنن

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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.