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Al-A'raf 7:166

فَلَمَّا عَتَوۡاْ عَن مَّا نُهُواْ عَنۡهُ قُلۡنَا لَهُمۡ كُونُواْ قِرَدَةً خَٰسِـِٔينَ

But when they stubbornly persisted in violation, We said to them, “Be disgraced apes!” 

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فَلَمَّا
falammā
So when
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عَتَوۡاْ
ʿataw
they exceeded all bounds
Vocabulary
Root: عتو
عَن
ʿan
about
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مَّا
mā
what
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نُهُواْ
nuhū
they were forbidden
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Root: نهي
عَنۡهُ
ʿanhu
from it
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قُلۡنَا
qul'nā
We said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
لَهُمۡ
lahum
to them
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كُونُواْ
kūnū
Be
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Root: كون
قِرَدَةً
qiradatan
apes
Vocabulary
Root: قرد
خَٰسِـِٔينَ
khāsiīna
despised
Vocabulary
Root: خسا

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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.