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Al-Hajj 22:48

وَكَأَيِّن مِّن قَرۡيَةٍ أَمۡلَيۡتُ لَهَا وَهِيَ ظَالِمَةٞ ثُمَّ أَخَذۡتُهَا وَإِلَيَّ ٱلۡمَصِيرُ

Many are the societies whose end We delayed while they did wrong, then seized them. And to Me is the final return.

Word by word

وَكَأَيِّن
waka-ayyin
And how many
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مِّن
min
of
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قَرۡيَةٍ
qaryatin
a township
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Root: قري
أَمۡلَيۡتُ
amlaytu
I gave respite
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Root: ملو
لَهَا
lahā
to it
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وَهِيَ
wahiya
while it
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ظَالِمَةٞ
ẓālimatun
(was) doing wrong
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Root: ظلم
ثُمَّ
thumma
Then
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أَخَذۡتُهَا
akhadhtuhā
I seized it
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Root: اخذ
وَإِلَيَّ
wa-ilayya
and to Me
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ٱلۡمَصِيرُ
l-maṣīru
(is) the destination
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Root: صير

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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.