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Al-Waqi'ah 56:47

وَكَانُواْ يَقُولُونَ أَئِذَا مِتۡنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابٗا وَعِظَٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبۡعُوثُونَ

They used to ask ˹mockingly˺, “When we are dead and reduced to dust and bones, will we really be resurrected?

Word by word

وَكَانُواْ
wakānū
And they used (to)
Vocabulary
Root: كون
يَقُولُونَ
yaqūlūna
say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
أَئِذَا
a-idhā
When
Vocabulary
مِتۡنَا
mit'nā
we die
Vocabulary
Root: موت
وَكُنَّا
wakunnā
and become
Vocabulary
Root: كون
تُرَابٗا
turāban
dust
Vocabulary
Root: ترب
وَعِظَٰمًا
waʿiẓāman
and bones
Vocabulary
Root: عظم
أَءِنَّا
a-innā
will we
Vocabulary
لَمَبۡعُوثُونَ
lamabʿūthūna
surely be resurrected
Vocabulary
Root: بعث

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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.