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Al-Ma'idah 5:30

فَطَوَّعَتۡ لَهُۥ نَفۡسُهُۥ قَتۡلَ أَخِيهِ فَقَتَلَهُۥ فَأَصۡبَحَ مِنَ ٱلۡخَٰسِرِينَ

Yet Cain convinced himself to kill his brother, so he killed him—becoming a loser.

Word by word

فَطَوَّعَتۡ
faṭawwaʿat
Then prompted
Vocabulary
Root: طوع
لَهُۥ
lahu
to him
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نَفۡسُهُۥ
nafsuhu
his soul
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قَتۡلَ
qatla
(to) kill
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Root: قتل
أَخِيهِ
akhīhi
his brother
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Root: اخو
فَقَتَلَهُۥ
faqatalahu
so he killed him
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فَأَصۡبَحَ
fa-aṣbaḥa
and became
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Root: صبح
مِنَ
mina
of
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ٱلۡخَٰسِرِينَ
l-khāsirīna
the losers
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Root: خسر

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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.