قَالَ깔라 رَبِّr랍비 أَنَّىٰ안나 يَكُونُ야쿠누 لِي리 غُلَامٌ굴라문 وَكَانَتِ와카나팀 امْرَأَتِيr라아티 عَاقِرًا아끼r란 وَقَدْ와까드 بَلَغْتُ발라그투 مِنَ미날 الْكِبَرِ키바r리 عِتِيًّا이티야
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깔라 r랍비 안나 야쿠누 리 굴라문 와카나팀 r라아티 아끼r란 와까드 발라그투 미날 키바r리 이티야
그가 말했다. “주님, 제 아내는 아이를 낳지 못하고 저는 이미 늙을 대로 늙었는데 어떻게 저에게 아들이 있겠습니까?”
He said, “My Lord, how can I have a boy when my wife is barren and I have reached extreme old age?”
How to read the Hangul
الرَّحْمَٰنِ르r라흐마니 بِسْمِ비스밀
- Bold = the stressed syllable of the word; a little stronger.
- Overline = long vowel (madd): hold it about two beats. Length matters most in recitation.
- Tiny = no vowel in the Arabic here — just the consonant, short.
- Small Latin letter = a sound Korean lacks, on the next syllable: f upper teeth on lower lip · θ/ð tongue tip between the teeth · r rolled tongue tip (a bare ㄹ is l).
How to read the Hangul
beginning the Christ salvation
- Bold, larger (ˈ) = say it strong and a little longer — the stressed syllable.
- Faint = weak and short (a reduced vowel). Don't give every syllable equal weight.
- Tiny 으 · 트 · 스 = barely voiced. English has no vowel there — stop on the consonant.
- Whole word faint (the, of, and, to…) = light and quick in a sentence; stress the content words.
- Small f v θ ð r = sounds Korean doesn't have — f: upper teeth on the lower lip; v: the same, voiced; θ/ð: tongue tip between the teeth; r: tongue curled back, touching nothing.