Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Thereupon his wife approached [the guests] with a loud cry, and struck her face [in astonishment] and exclaimed: “A barren old woman [like me]!”
Arthur John Arberry
Then came forward his wife, clamouring, and she smote her face, and said, 'An old woman, barren!
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
But his wife came forward (laughing) aloud: she smote her forehead and said: "A barren old woman!"
Arabic
فَأَقۡبَلَتِ ٱمۡرَأَتُهُۥ فِی صَرَّةࣲ فَصَكَّتۡ وَجۡهَهَا وَقَالَتۡ عَجُوزٌ عَقِیمࣱ ٢٩
Transliteration (2021)
fa-aqbalati im'ra-atuhu fī ṣarratin faṣakkat wajhahā waqālat ʿajūzun ʿaqīmu