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Qaf 50:18

مَّا يَلۡفِظُ مِن قَوۡلٍ إِلَّا لَدَيۡهِ رَقِيبٌ عَتِيدٞ

not a word does a person utter without having a ˹vigilant˺ observer ready ˹to write it down˺. 

Word by word

مَّا
mā
Not
Vocabulary
يَلۡفِظُ
yalfiẓu
he utters
Vocabulary
Root: لفظ
مِن
min
any
Vocabulary
قَوۡلٍ
qawlin
word
Vocabulary
Root: قول
إِلَّا
illā
but
Vocabulary
لَدَيۡهِ
ladayhi
with him
Vocabulary
رَقِيبٌ
raqībun
(is) an observer
Vocabulary
Root: رقب
عَتِيدٞ
ʿatīdun
ready
Vocabulary
Root: عتد

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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.