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Adh-Dhariyat 51:17

كَانُواْ قَلِيلٗا مِّنَ ٱلَّيۡلِ مَا يَهۡجَعُونَ

they used to sleep only little in the night,

Word by word

كَانُواْ
kānū
They used (to)
Vocabulary
Root: كون
قَلِيلٗا
qalīlan
little
Vocabulary
Root: قلل
مِّنَ
mina
of
Vocabulary
ٱلَّيۡلِ
al-layli
the night
Vocabulary
Root: ليل
مَا
mā
[what]
Vocabulary
يَهۡجَعُونَ
yahjaʿūna
sleep
Vocabulary
Root: هجع

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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.