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Ash-Shuraa 42:50

أَوۡ يُزَوِّجُهُمۡ ذُكۡرَانٗا وَإِنَٰثٗاۖ وَيَجۡعَلُ مَن يَشَآءُ عَقِيمًاۚ إِنَّهُۥ عَلِيمٞ قَدِيرٞ

or grants both, sons and daughters, ˹to whoever He wills˺, and leaves whoever He wills infertile. He is indeed All-Knowing, Most Capable.

Word by word

أَوۡ
aw
Or
Vocabulary
يُزَوِّجُهُمۡ
yuzawwijuhum
He grants them
Vocabulary
Root: زوج
ذُكۡرَانٗا
dhuk'rānan
males
Vocabulary
Root: ذكر
وَإِنَٰثٗاۖ
wa-ināthan
and females
Vocabulary
Root: انث
وَيَجۡعَلُ
wayajʿalu
and He makes
Vocabulary
Root: جعل
مَن
man
whom
Vocabulary
يَشَآءُ
yashāu
He wills
Vocabulary
Root: شيا
عَقِيمًاۚ
ʿaqīman
barren
Vocabulary
Root: عقم
إِنَّهُۥ
innahu
Indeed He
Vocabulary
عَلِيمٞ
ʿalīmun
(is) All-Knower
Vocabulary
Root: علم
قَدِيرٞ
qadīrun
All-Powerful
Vocabulary
Root: قدر

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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.