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Al-Mu'minun 23:18

وَأَنزَلۡنَا مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءَۢ بِقَدَرٖ فَأَسۡكَنَّـٰهُ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِۖ وَإِنَّا عَلَىٰ ذَهَابِۭ بِهِۦ لَقَٰدِرُونَ

We send down rain from the sky in perfect measure, causing it to soak into the earth. And We are surely able to take it away.

Word by word

وَأَنزَلۡنَا
wa-anzalnā
And We send down
Vocabulary
Root: نزل
مِنَ
mina
from
Vocabulary
ٱلسَّمَآءِ
l-samāi
the sky
Vocabulary
Root: سمو
مَآءَۢ
māan
water
Vocabulary
Root: موه
بِقَدَرٖ
biqadarin
in (due) measure
Vocabulary
Root: قدر
فَأَسۡكَنَّـٰهُ
fa-askannāhu
then We cause it to settle
Vocabulary
Root: سكن
فِي
fī
in
Vocabulary
ٱلۡأَرۡضِۖ
l-arḍi
the earth
Vocabulary
Root: ارض
وَإِنَّا
wa-innā
And indeed, We
Vocabulary
عَلَىٰ
ʿalā
on
Vocabulary
ذَهَابِۭ
dhahābin
taking it away
Vocabulary
Root: ذهب
بِهِۦ
bihi
taking it away
Vocabulary
لَقَٰدِرُونَ
laqādirūna
surely (are) Able
Vocabulary
Root: قدر

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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.