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Sad 38:76

قَالَ أَنَا۠ خَيۡرٞ مِّنۡهُ خَلَقۡتَنِي مِن نَّارٖ وَخَلَقۡتَهُۥ مِن طِينٖ

He replied, “I am better than he is: You created me from fire and him from clay.”

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
He said
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Root: قول
أَنَا۠
anā
I am
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خَيۡرٞ
khayrun
better
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Root: خير
مِّنۡهُ
min'hu
than him
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خَلَقۡتَنِي
khalaqtanī
You created me
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Root: خلق
مِن
min
from
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نَّارٖ
nārin
fire
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Root: نور
وَخَلَقۡتَهُۥ
wakhalaqtahu
and You created him
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مِن
min
from
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طِينٖ
ṭīnin
clay
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Root: طين

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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.