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Al-A'raf 7:130

وَلَقَدۡ أَخَذۡنَآ ءَالَ فِرۡعَوۡنَ بِٱلسِّنِينَ وَنَقۡصٖ مِّنَ ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَذَّكَّرُونَ

Indeed, We afflicted Pharaoh’s people with famine and shortage of crops so they might come back ˹to their senses˺.

Word by word

وَلَقَدۡ
walaqad
And certainly
Vocabulary
أَخَذۡنَآ
akhadhnā
We seized
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
ءَالَ
āla
(the) people
Vocabulary
Root: اول
فِرۡعَوۡنَ
fir'ʿawna
(of) Firaun
Vocabulary
بِٱلسِّنِينَ
bil-sinīna
with years (of famine)
Vocabulary
Root: سنو
وَنَقۡصٖ
wanaqṣin
and a deficit
Vocabulary
Root: نقص
مِّنَ
mina
of
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ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ
l-thamarāti
[the] fruits
Vocabulary
Root: ثمر
لَعَلَّهُمۡ
laʿallahum
so that they may
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يَذَّكَّرُونَ
yadhakkarūna
receive admonition
Vocabulary
Root: ذكر

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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.