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Al-Anfal 8:31

وَإِذَا تُتۡلَىٰ عَلَيۡهِمۡ ءَايَٰتُنَا قَالُواْ قَدۡ سَمِعۡنَا لَوۡ نَشَآءُ لَقُلۡنَا مِثۡلَ هَٰذَآ إِنۡ هَٰذَآ إِلَّآ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ

Whenever Our revelations are recited to them, they challenge ˹you˺, “We have already heard ˹the recitation˺. If we wanted, we could have easily produced something similar. This ˹Quran˺ is nothing but ancient fables!”

Word by word

وَإِذَا
wa-idhā
And when
Vocabulary
تُتۡلَىٰ
tut'lā
are recited
Vocabulary
Root: تلو
عَلَيۡهِمۡ
ʿalayhim
to them
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ءَايَٰتُنَا
āyātunā
Our Verses
Vocabulary
Root: ايي
قَالُواْ
qālū
they say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
قَدۡ
qad
Verily
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سَمِعۡنَا
samiʿ'nā
we have heard
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Root: سمع
لَوۡ
law
if
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نَشَآءُ
nashāu
we wish
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Root: شيا
لَقُلۡنَا
laqul'nā
surely, we could say
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Root: قول
مِثۡلَ
mith'la
like
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Root: مثل
هَٰذَآ
hādhā
this
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إِنۡ
in
Not
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هَٰذَآ
hādhā
is this
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إِلَّآ
illā
but
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أَسَٰطِيرُ
asāṭīru
tales
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Root: سطر
ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ
l-awalīna
(of) the former (people)
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Root: اول

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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.