The first word of verse (15:15) is divided into 3 morphological segments. An emphatic prefix, verb and subject pronoun. The prefixed particle lām is usually translated as "surely" or "indeed" and is used to add emphasis. The perfect verb (فعل ماض) is third person masculine plural. The verb's triliteral root is qāf wāw lām (ق و ل). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (15) sūrat l-ḥij'r (The Rocky Tract) (15:15:1) laqālū They would surely say
EMPH – emphatic prefix lām V – 3rd person masculine plural perfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	اللام لام التوكيد فعل ماض والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل

Verse (15:15)

The analysis above refers to the fifteenth verse of chapter 15 (sūrat l-ḥij'r):

Sahih International: They would say, "Our eyes have only been dazzled. Rather, we are a people affected by magic."

See Also

• English Translations
• Verbs, Subjects and Objects
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root qāf wāw lām

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