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Al-Ma'idah 5:79

كَانُواْ لَا يَتَنَاهَوۡنَ عَن مُّنكَرٖ فَعَلُوهُۚ لَبِئۡسَ مَا كَانُواْ يَفۡعَلُونَ

They did not forbid one another from doing evil. Evil indeed was what they did!

Word by word

كَانُواْ
kānū
They had been
Vocabulary
Root: كون
لَا
lā
not
Vocabulary
يَتَنَاهَوۡنَ
yatanāhawna
forbidding each other
Vocabulary
Root: نهي
عَن
ʿan
from
Vocabulary
مُّنكَرٖ
munkarin
wrongdoing
Vocabulary
Root: نكر
فَعَلُوهُۚ
faʿalūhu
they did [it]
Vocabulary
Root: فعل
لَبِئۡسَ
labi'sa
Surely, evil
Vocabulary
Root: باس
مَا
mā
(was) what
Vocabulary
كَانُواْ
kānū
they were
Vocabulary
Root: كون
يَفۡعَلُونَ
yafʿalūna
doing
Vocabulary
Root: فعل

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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.