The ninth word of verse (11:5) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A verb and subject pronoun. The form X imperfect verb (فعل مضارع) is third person masculine plural and is in the indicative mood (مرفوع). The verb's triliteral root is ghayn shīn wāw (غ ش و). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (11) sūrat hūd (Hud) (11:5:9) yastaghshūna they cover (themselves)
V – 3rd person masculine plural (form X) imperfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	فعل مضارع والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل

Verse (11:5)

The analysis above refers to the fifth verse of chapter 11 (sūrat hūd):

Sahih International: Unquestionably, they the disbelievers turn away their breasts to hide themselves from Him. Unquestionably, [even] when they cover themselves in their clothing, Allah knows what they conceal and what they declare. Indeed, He is Knowing of that within the breasts.

See Also

• English Translations
• Verb Forms in Quranic Grammar
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root ghayn shīn wāw

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	Maqbool Ahmad 3rd August, 2014 The mada of (11:5:9) in Corpus Quran is غ ش و but the mada in the Dictionary of The Holy Quran By Malik Ghulam is غ ش ى. Are both right?
	Abdul Rahman 28th August, 2014 Yes, both are right.

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