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Adh-Dhariyat 51:29

فَأَقۡبَلَتِ ٱمۡرَأَتُهُۥ فِي صَرَّةٖ فَصَكَّتۡ وَجۡهَهَا وَقَالَتۡ عَجُوزٌ عَقِيمٞ

Then his wife came forward with a cry, clasping her forehead ˹in astonishment˺, exclaiming, “˹A baby from˺ a barren, old woman!”

Word by word

فَأَقۡبَلَتِ
fa-aqbalati
Then came forward
Vocabulary
Root: قبل
ٱمۡرَأَتُهُۥ
im'ra-atuhu
his wife
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فِي
fī
with
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صَرَّةٖ
ṣarratin
a loud voice
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Root: صرر
فَصَكَّتۡ
faṣakkat
and struck
Vocabulary
Root: صكك
وَجۡهَهَا
wajhahā
her face
Vocabulary
Root: وجه
وَقَالَتۡ
waqālat
and she said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
عَجُوزٌ
ʿajūzun
An old woman
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Root: عجز
عَقِيمٞ
ʿaqīmun
barren!
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Root: عقم

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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.