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Nuh 71:7

وَإِنِّي كُلَّمَا دَعَوۡتُهُمۡ لِتَغۡفِرَ لَهُمۡ جَعَلُوٓاْ أَصَٰبِعَهُمۡ فِيٓ ءَاذَانِهِمۡ وَٱسۡتَغۡشَوۡاْ ثِيَابَهُمۡ وَأَصَرُّواْ وَٱسۡتَكۡبَرُواْ ٱسۡتِكۡبَارٗا

And whenever I invite them to be forgiven by You, they press their fingers into their ears, cover themselves with their clothes, persist ˹in denial˺, and act very arrogantly.

Word by word

وَإِنِّي
wa-innī
And indeed I
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كُلَّمَا
kullamā
every time
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Root: كلل
دَعَوۡتُهُمۡ
daʿawtuhum
I invited them
Vocabulary
Root: دعو
لِتَغۡفِرَ
litaghfira
that You may forgive
Vocabulary
Root: غفر
لَهُمۡ
lahum
them
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جَعَلُوٓاْ
jaʿalū
they put
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Root: جعل
أَصَٰبِعَهُمۡ
aṣābiʿahum
their fingers
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Root: صبع
فِيٓ
fī
in
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ءَاذَانِهِمۡ
ādhānihim
their ears
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Root: اذن
وَٱسۡتَغۡشَوۡاْ
wa-is'taghshaw
and covered themselves
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Root: غشو
ثِيَابَهُمۡ
thiyābahum
(with) their garments
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Root: ثوب
وَأَصَرُّواْ
wa-aṣarrū
and persisted
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Root: صرر
وَٱسۡتَكۡبَرُواْ
wa-is'takbarū
and were arrogant
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Root: كبر
ٱسۡتِكۡبَارٗا
is'tik'bāran
(with) pride
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Root: كبر

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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.