The ninth word of verse (12:40) is divided into 3 morphological segments. A conjunction, noun and possessive pronoun. The prefixed conjunction wa is usually translated as "and". The noun is masculine plural and is in the nominative case (مرفوع). The noun's triliteral root is hamza bā wāw (أ ب و). The attached possessive pronoun is second person masculine plural.

Chapter (12) sūrat yūsuf (Joseph) (12:40:9) waābāukum and your forefathers,
CONJ – prefixed conjunction wa (and) N – nominative masculine plural noun PRON – 2nd person masculine plural possessive pronoun	الواو عاطفة اسم مرفوع والكاف ضمير متصل في محل جر بالاضافة

Verse (12:40)

The analysis above refers to the 40th verse of chapter 12 (sūrat yūsuf):

Sahih International: You worship not besides Him except [mere] names you have named them, you and your fathers, for which Allah has sent down no authority. Legislation is not but for Allah. He has commanded that you worship not except Him. That is the correct religion, but most of the people do not know.

See Also

• English Translations
• Part-of-speech Tags
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root hamza bā wāw

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