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Nuh 71:21

قَالَ نُوحٞ رَّبِّ إِنَّهُمۡ عَصَوۡنِي وَٱتَّبَعُواْ مَن لَّمۡ يَزِدۡهُ مَالُهُۥ وَوَلَدُهُۥٓ إِلَّا خَسَارٗا

˹Eventually,˺ Noah cried, “My Lord! They have certainly persisted in disobeying me, and followed ˹instead˺ those ˹elite˺ whose ˹abundant˺ wealth and children only increase them in loss,

Word by word

قَالَ
qāla
Said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
نُوحٞ
nūḥun
Nuh
Vocabulary
رَّبِّ
rabbi
My Lord!
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
إِنَّهُمۡ
innahum
Indeed they
Vocabulary
عَصَوۡنِي
ʿaṣawnī
disobeyed me
Vocabulary
Root: عصي
وَٱتَّبَعُواْ
wa-ittabaʿū
and followed
Vocabulary
Root: تبع
مَن
man
(the one) who
Vocabulary
لَّمۡ
lam
(did) not
Vocabulary
يَزِدۡهُ
yazid'hu
increase him
Vocabulary
Root: زيد
مَالُهُۥ
māluhu
his wealth
Vocabulary
وَوَلَدُهُۥٓ
wawaladuhu
and his children
Vocabulary
إِلَّا
illā
except
Vocabulary
خَسَارٗا
khasāran
(in) loss
Vocabulary
Root: خسر

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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.