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Az-Zukhruf 43:17

وَإِذَا بُشِّرَ أَحَدُهُم بِمَا ضَرَبَ لِلرَّحۡمَٰنِ مَثَلٗا ظَلَّ وَجۡهُهُۥ مُسۡوَدّٗا وَهُوَ كَظِيمٌ

Whenever one of them is given the good news of what they attribute to the Most Beneficent, his face grows gloomy, as he suppresses his rage.

Word by word

وَإِذَا
wa-idhā
And when
Vocabulary
بُشِّرَ
bushira
is given good news
Vocabulary
Root: بشر
أَحَدُهُم
aḥaduhum
(to) one of them
Vocabulary
Root: احد
بِمَا
bimā
of what
Vocabulary
ضَرَبَ
ḍaraba
he sets up
Vocabulary
Root: ضرب
لِلرَّحۡمَٰنِ
lilrraḥmāni
for the Most Gracious
Vocabulary
Root: رحم
مَثَلٗا
mathalan
(as) a likeness
Vocabulary
Root: مثل
ظَلَّ
ẓalla
becomes
Vocabulary
Root: ظلل
وَجۡهُهُۥ
wajhuhu
his face
Vocabulary
مُسۡوَدّٗا
mus'waddan
dark
Vocabulary
Root: سود
وَهُوَ
wahuwa
and he
Vocabulary
كَظِيمٌ
kaẓīmun
(is) filled with grief
Vocabulary
Root: كظم

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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.