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At-Tawbah 9:57

لَوۡ يَجِدُونَ مَلۡجَـًٔا أَوۡ مَغَٰرَٰتٍ أَوۡ مُدَّخَلٗا لَّوَلَّوۡاْ إِلَيۡهِ وَهُمۡ يَجۡمَحُونَ

If only they could find a refuge, or a cave, or any hiding-place, they would rush headlong towards it.

Word by word

لَوۡ
law
If
Vocabulary
يَجِدُونَ
yajidūna
they could find
Vocabulary
Root: وجد
مَلۡجَـًٔا
malja-an
a refuge
Vocabulary
Root: لجا
أَوۡ
aw
or
Vocabulary
مَغَٰرَٰتٍ
maghārātin
caves
Vocabulary
Root: غور
أَوۡ
aw
or
Vocabulary
مُدَّخَلٗا
muddakhalan
a place to enter
Vocabulary
Root: دخل
لَّوَلَّوۡاْ
lawallaw
surely they would turn
Vocabulary
Root: ولي
إِلَيۡهِ
ilayhi
to it
Vocabulary
وَهُمۡ
wahum
and they
Vocabulary
يَجۡمَحُونَ
yajmaḥūna
run wild
Vocabulary
Root: جمح

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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.