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An-Nisa 4:20

وَإِنۡ أَرَدتُّمُ ٱسۡتِبۡدَالَ زَوۡجٖ مَّكَانَ زَوۡجٖ وَءَاتَيۡتُمۡ إِحۡدَىٰهُنَّ قِنطَارٗا فَلَا تَأۡخُذُواْ مِنۡهُ شَيۡـًٔاۚ أَتَأۡخُذُونَهُۥ بُهۡتَٰنٗا وَإِثۡمٗا مُّبِينٗا

If you desire to replace a wife with another and you have given the former ˹even˺ a stack of gold ˹as a dowry˺, do not take any of it back. Would you ˹still˺ take it unjustly and very sinfully?

Word by word

وَإِنۡ
wa-in
And if
Vocabulary
أَرَدتُّمُ
aradttumu
you intend
Vocabulary
Root: رود
ٱسۡتِبۡدَالَ
is'tib'dāla
replacing
Vocabulary
Root: بدل
زَوۡجٖ
zawjin
a wife
Vocabulary
Root: زوج
مَّكَانَ
makāna
(in) place
Vocabulary
Root: كون
زَوۡجٖ
zawjin
(of) a wife
Vocabulary
Root: زوج
وَءَاتَيۡتُمۡ
waātaytum
and you have given
Vocabulary
Root: اتي
إِحۡدَىٰهُنَّ
iḥ'dāhunna
one of them
Vocabulary
Root: احد
قِنطَارٗا
qinṭāran
heap (of gold)
Vocabulary
Root: قنطر
فَلَا
falā
then (do) not
Vocabulary
تَأۡخُذُواْ
takhudhū
take away
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
مِنۡهُ
min'hu
from it
Vocabulary
شَيۡـًٔاۚ
shayan
anything
Vocabulary
Root: شيا
أَتَأۡخُذُونَهُۥ
atakhudhūnahu
Would you take it
Vocabulary
بُهۡتَٰنٗا
buh'tānan
(by) slander
Vocabulary
Root: بهت
وَإِثۡمٗا
wa-ith'man
and a sin
Vocabulary
Root: اثم
مُّبِينٗا
mubīnan
open
Vocabulary
Root: بين

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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.