Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the fourteenth verse of chapter 12 (sūrat yūsuf). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (12) sūrat yūsuf (Joseph)

Sahih International: They said, " If a wolf should eat him while we are a [strong] clan, indeed, we would then be losers."

Pickthall: They said: If the wolf should devour him when we are (so strong) a band, then surely we should have already perished.

Yusuf Ali: They said: "If the wolf were to devour him while we are (so large) a party, then should we indeed (first) have perished ourselves!"

Shakir: They said: Surely if the wolf should devour him notwithstanding that we are a (strong) company, we should then certainly be losers.

Muhammad Sarwar: They said, "If some wild-beast would be able to harm him, despite the presence of our strong group, it would certainly be a great loss to us!"

Mohsin Khan: They said: "If a wolf devours him, while we are 'Usbah (a strong group) (to guard him), then surely, we are the losers."

Arberry: They said, 'If the wolf eats him, and we a band, then are we losers!'

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See Also

• Verse (12:14) Morphology - description of each Arabic word