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Al-Ma'idah 5:31

فَبَعَثَ ٱللَّهُ غُرَابٗا يَبۡحَثُ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ لِيُرِيَهُۥ كَيۡفَ يُوَٰرِي سَوۡءَةَ أَخِيهِۚ قَالَ يَٰوَيۡلَتَىٰٓ أَعَجَزۡتُ أَنۡ أَكُونَ مِثۡلَ هَٰذَا ٱلۡغُرَابِ فَأُوَٰرِيَ سَوۡءَةَ أَخِيۖ فَأَصۡبَحَ مِنَ ٱلنَّـٰدِمِينَ

Then Allah sent a crow digging ˹a grave˺ in the ground ˹for a dead crow˺, in order to show him how to bury the corpse of his brother. He cried, “Alas! Have I ˹even˺ failed to be like this crow and bury the corpse of my brother?” So he became regretful. 

Word by word

فَبَعَثَ
fabaʿatha
Then (was) sent
Vocabulary
Root: بعث
ٱللَّهُ
l-lahu
(by) Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
غُرَابٗا
ghurāban
a crow
Vocabulary
Root: غرب
يَبۡحَثُ
yabḥathu
it (was) scratching
Vocabulary
Root: بحث
فِي
fī
in
Vocabulary
ٱلۡأَرۡضِ
l-arḍi
the earth
Vocabulary
Root: ارض
لِيُرِيَهُۥ
liyuriyahu
to show him
Vocabulary
كَيۡفَ
kayfa
how
Vocabulary
Root: كيف
يُوَٰرِي
yuwārī
to hide
Vocabulary
Root: وري
سَوۡءَةَ
sawata
(the) dead body
Vocabulary
Root: سوا
أَخِيهِۚ
akhīhi
(of) his brother
Vocabulary
Root: اخو
قَالَ
qāla
He said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
يَٰوَيۡلَتَىٰٓ
yāwaylatā
Woe to me
Vocabulary
أَعَجَزۡتُ
aʿajaztu
Am I unable
Vocabulary
Root: عجز
أَنۡ
an
that
Vocabulary
أَكُونَ
akūna
I can be
Vocabulary
Root: كون
مِثۡلَ
mith'la
like
Vocabulary
Root: مثل
هَٰذَا
hādhā
this
Vocabulary
ٱلۡغُرَابِ
l-ghurābi
[the] crow
Vocabulary
Root: غرب
فَأُوَٰرِيَ
fa-uwāriya
and hide
Vocabulary
Root: وري
سَوۡءَةَ
sawata
(the) dead body
Vocabulary
Root: سوا
أَخِيۖ
akhī
(of) my brother
Vocabulary
Root: اخو
فَأَصۡبَحَ
fa-aṣbaḥa
Then he became
Vocabulary
Root: صبح
مِنَ
mina
of
Vocabulary
ٱلنَّـٰدِمِينَ
l-nādimīna
the regretful
Vocabulary
Root: ندم

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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.