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Sad 38:23

إِنَّ هَٰذَآ أَخِي لَهُۥ تِسۡعٞ وَتِسۡعُونَ نَعۡجَةٗ وَلِيَ نَعۡجَةٞ وَٰحِدَةٞ فَقَالَ أَكۡفِلۡنِيهَا وَعَزَّنِي فِي ٱلۡخِطَابِ

This is my brother. He has ninety-nine sheep while I have ˹only˺ one. ˹Still˺ he asked me to give it up to him, overwhelming me with ˹his˺ argument.”

Word by word

إِنَّ
inna
Indeed
Vocabulary
هَٰذَآ
hādhā
this
Vocabulary
أَخِي
akhī
(is) my brother
Vocabulary
Root: اخو
لَهُۥ
lahu
he has
Vocabulary
تِسۡعٞ
tis'ʿun
ninety-nine
Vocabulary
Root: تسع
وَتِسۡعُونَ
watis'ʿūna
ninety-nine
Vocabulary
Root: تسع
نَعۡجَةٗ
naʿjatan
ewe(s)
Vocabulary
Root: نعج
وَلِيَ
waliya
while I have
Vocabulary
نَعۡجَةٞ
naʿjatun
ewe
Vocabulary
Root: نعج
وَٰحِدَةٞ
wāḥidatun
one
Vocabulary
Root: وحد
فَقَالَ
faqāla
so he said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
أَكۡفِلۡنِيهَا
akfil'nīhā
Entrust her to me
Vocabulary
Root: كفل
وَعَزَّنِي
waʿazzanī
and he overpowered me
Vocabulary
Root: عزز
فِي
fī
in
Vocabulary
ٱلۡخِطَابِ
l-khiṭābi
[the] speech
Vocabulary
Root: خطب

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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.