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Al-A'raf 7:82

وَمَا كَانَ جَوَابَ قَوۡمِهِۦٓ إِلَّآ أَن قَالُوٓاْ أَخۡرِجُوهُم مِّن قَرۡيَتِكُمۡۖ إِنَّهُمۡ أُنَاسٞ يَتَطَهَّرُونَ

But his people’s only response was to say, “Expel them from your land! They are a people who wish to remain chaste!”

Word by word

وَمَا
wamā
And not
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كَانَ
kāna
was
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Root: كون
جَوَابَ
jawāba
(the) answer
Vocabulary
Root: جوب
قَوۡمِهِۦٓ
qawmihi
(of) his people
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إِلَّآ
illā
except
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أَن
an
that
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قَالُوٓاْ
qālū
they said
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Root: قول
أَخۡرِجُوهُم
akhrijūhum
Drive them out
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Root: خرج
مِّن
min
of
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قَرۡيَتِكُمۡۖ
qaryatikum
your town
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Root: قري
إِنَّهُمۡ
innahum
Indeed they
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أُنَاسٞ
unāsun
(are) people
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Root: انس
يَتَطَهَّرُونَ
yataṭahharūna
who keep themselves pure
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Root: طهر

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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.