The twentieth word of verse (4:23) 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 rā bā bā (ر ب ب). The attached possessive pronoun is second person masculine plural.

Chapter (4) sūrat l-nisāa (The Women) (4:23:20) warabāibukumu and your step daughters
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 (4:23)

The analysis above refers to the 23rd verse of chapter 4 (sūrat l-nisāa):

Sahih International: Prohibited to you [for marriage] are your mothers, your daughters, your sisters, your father's sisters, your mother's sisters, your brother's daughters, your sister's daughters, your [milk] mothers who nursed you, your sisters through nursing, your wives' mothers, and your step-daughters under your guardianship [born] of your wives unto whom you have gone in. But if you have not gone in unto them, there is no sin upon you. And [also prohibited are] the wives of your sons who are from your [own] loins, and that you take [in marriage] two sisters simultaneously, except for what has already occurred. Indeed, Allah is ever Forgiving and Merciful.

See Also

• English Translations
• Part-of-speech Tags
• Dependency Graph - visual syntax (i'rāb) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root rā bā bā

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Asim Iqbal 2nd 16th June, 2011 rabaa.ib plural of rabeebat. And is feminine, not masculine. i.e. gender is female both reality wise, and also female weight wise.

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