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An-Nisa 4:21

وَكَيۡفَ تَأۡخُذُونَهُۥ وَقَدۡ أَفۡضَىٰ بَعۡضُكُمۡ إِلَىٰ بَعۡضٖ وَأَخَذۡنَ مِنكُم مِّيثَٰقًا غَلِيظٗا

And how could you take it back after having enjoyed each other intimately and she has taken from you a firm commitment? 

Word by word

وَكَيۡفَ
wakayfa
And how
Vocabulary
Root: كيف
تَأۡخُذُونَهُۥ
takhudhūnahu
could you take it
Vocabulary
وَقَدۡ
waqad
when surely
Vocabulary
أَفۡضَىٰ
afḍā
has gone
Vocabulary
Root: فضو
بَعۡضُكُمۡ
baʿḍukum
one of you
Vocabulary
Root: بعض
إِلَىٰ
ilā
to
Vocabulary
بَعۡضٖ
baʿḍin
another
Vocabulary
Root: بعض
وَأَخَذۡنَ
wa-akhadhna
and they have taken
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
مِنكُم
minkum
from you
Vocabulary
مِّيثَٰقًا
mīthāqan
covenant
Vocabulary
Root: وثق
غَلِيظٗا
ghalīẓan
strong
Vocabulary
Root: غلظ

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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.