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Al-A'raf 7:140

قَالَ أَغَيۡرَ ٱللَّهِ أَبۡغِيكُمۡ إِلَٰهٗا وَهُوَ فَضَّلَكُمۡ عَلَى ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ

He added, “Shall I seek for you a god other than Allah, while He has honoured you above the others?”

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
He said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
أَغَيۡرَ
aghayra
Should other than
Vocabulary
Root: غير
ٱللَّهِ
l-lahi
Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
أَبۡغِيكُمۡ
abghīkum
I seek for you
Vocabulary
Root: بغي
إِلَٰهٗا
ilāhan
a god
Vocabulary
Root: اله
وَهُوَ
wahuwa
while He
Vocabulary
فَضَّلَكُمۡ
faḍḍalakum
has preferred you
Vocabulary
Root: فضل
عَلَى
ʿalā
over
Vocabulary
ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ
l-ʿālamīna
the worlds
Vocabulary
Root: علم

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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.