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Adh-Dhariyat 51:39

فَتَوَلَّىٰ بِرُكۡنِهِۦ وَقَالَ سَٰحِرٌ أَوۡ مَجۡنُونٞ

but Pharaoh was carried away by his power, saying ˹of Moses˺, “A magician or a madman!”

Word by word

فَتَوَلَّىٰ
fatawallā
But he turned away
Vocabulary
Root: ولي
بِرُكۡنِهِۦ
biruk'nihi
with his supporters
Vocabulary
وَقَالَ
waqāla
and said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
سَٰحِرٌ
sāḥirun
A magician
Vocabulary
Root: سحر
أَوۡ
aw
or
Vocabulary
مَجۡنُونٞ
majnūnun
a madman
Vocabulary
Root: جنن

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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.