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An-Nisa 4:86

وَإِذَا حُيِّيتُم بِتَحِيَّةٖ فَحَيُّواْ بِأَحۡسَنَ مِنۡهَآ أَوۡ رُدُّوهَآۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيۡءٍ حَسِيبًا

And when you are greeted, respond with a better greeting or at least similarly. Surely Allah is a ˹vigilant˺ Reckoner of all things.

Word by word

وَإِذَا
wa-idhā
And when
Vocabulary
حُيِّيتُم
ḥuyyītum
you are greeted
Vocabulary
Root: حيي
بِتَحِيَّةٖ
bitaḥiyyatin
with a greeting
Vocabulary
Root: حيي
فَحَيُّواْ
faḥayyū
then greet
Vocabulary
Root: حيي
بِأَحۡسَنَ
bi-aḥsana
with better
Vocabulary
Root: حسن
مِنۡهَآ
min'hā
than it
Vocabulary
أَوۡ
aw
or
Vocabulary
رُدُّوهَآۗ
ruddūhā
return it
Vocabulary
Root: ردد
إِنَّ
inna
Indeed
Vocabulary
ٱللَّهَ
l-laha
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
كَانَ
kāna
is
Vocabulary
Root: كون
عَلَىٰ
ʿalā
of
Vocabulary
كُلِّ
kulli
every
Vocabulary
Root: كلل
شَيۡءٍ
shayin
thing
Vocabulary
Root: شيا
حَسِيبًا
ḥasīban
an Accountant
Vocabulary
Root: حسب

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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.