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Sad 38:62

وَقَالُواْ مَا لَنَا لَا نَرَىٰ رِجَالٗا كُنَّا نَعُدُّهُم مِّنَ ٱلۡأَشۡرَارِ

The tyrants will ask ˹one another˺, “But why do we not see those we considered to be lowly?

Word by word

وَقَالُواْ
waqālū
And they will say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
مَا
mā
What (is)
Vocabulary
لَنَا
lanā
for us
Vocabulary
لَا
lā
not
Vocabulary
نَرَىٰ
narā
we see
Vocabulary
Root: راي
رِجَالٗا
rijālan
men
Vocabulary
Root: رجل
كُنَّا
kunnā
we used (to)
Vocabulary
Root: كون
نَعُدُّهُم
naʿudduhum
count them
Vocabulary
Root: عدد
مِّنَ
mina
among
Vocabulary
ٱلۡأَشۡرَارِ
l-ashrāri
the bad ones
Vocabulary
Root: شرر

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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.