Joseph 12:14

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Arabic English Morphology
They said V
لَئِنْ la-in
If Prep
eats him V
the wolf Noun
وَنَحْنُ wanaḥnu
while we Noun
عُصْبَةٌ ʿuṣ'batun
(are) a group Noun
indeed, we Prep
إِذًا idhan
then Prep
surely (would be) losers Noun

They said, ‘If a wolf were to eat him when there are so many of us, we would truly be losers!’

— Abdel Haleem

Arabic Text

قَالُوا۟ لَىِٕنۡ أَكَلَهُ ٱلذِّئۡبُ وَنَحۡنُ عُصۡبَةٌ إِنَّاۤ إِذࣰا لَّخَـٰسِرُونَ ۝١٤

qālū la-in akalahu l-dhi'bu wanaḥnu ʿuṣ'batun innā idhan lakhāsirūn