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As-Saffat 37:71

وَلَقَدۡ ضَلَّ قَبۡلَهُمۡ أَكۡثَرُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ

And surely most of the earlier generations had strayed before them,

Word by word

وَلَقَدۡ
walaqad
And verily
Vocabulary
ضَلَّ
ḍalla
went astray
Vocabulary
Root: ضلل
قَبۡلَهُمۡ
qablahum
before them
Vocabulary
Root: قبل
أَكۡثَرُ
aktharu
most
Vocabulary
Root: كثر
ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ
l-awalīna
(of) the former (people)
Vocabulary
Root: اول

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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.