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Al-'Alaq 96:15

كَلَّا لَئِن لَّمۡ يَنتَهِ لَنَسۡفَعَۢا بِٱلنَّاصِيَةِ

But no! If he does not desist, We will certainly drag him by the forelock—

Word by word

كَلَّا
kallā
Nay!
Vocabulary
لَئِن
la-in
If
Vocabulary
لَّمۡ
lam
not
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يَنتَهِ
yantahi
he desists
Vocabulary
Root: نهي
لَنَسۡفَعَۢا
lanasfaʿan
surely We will drag him
Vocabulary
Root: سفع
بِٱلنَّاصِيَةِ
bil-nāṣiyati
by the forelock
Vocabulary
Root: نصي

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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.