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Al-Kahf 18:59

وَتِلۡكَ ٱلۡقُرَىٰٓ أَهۡلَكۡنَٰهُمۡ لَمَّا ظَلَمُواْ وَجَعَلۡنَا لِمَهۡلِكِهِم مَّوۡعِدٗا

Those ˹are the˺ societies We destroyed when they persisted in wrong, and We had set a time for their destruction.

Word by word

وَتِلۡكَ
watil'ka
And these
Vocabulary
ٱلۡقُرَىٰٓ
l-qurā
[the] towns
Vocabulary
Root: قري
أَهۡلَكۡنَٰهُمۡ
ahlaknāhum
We destroyed them
Vocabulary
Root: هلك
لَمَّا
lammā
when
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ظَلَمُواْ
ẓalamū
they wronged
Vocabulary
Root: ظلم
وَجَعَلۡنَا
wajaʿalnā
and We made
Vocabulary
Root: جعل
لِمَهۡلِكِهِم
limahlikihim
for their destruction
Vocabulary
Root: هلك
مَّوۡعِدٗا
mawʿidan
an appointed time
Vocabulary
Root: وعد

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Root and lemma annotations: Quranic Arabic Corpus © 2011 Kais Dukes (GPL), based on Tanzil text. Grammar tag guide. Only verified word alignments are annotated; missing roots are not guessed. A verse may be a phrase or span several sentences.