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Sad 38:3

كَمۡ أَهۡلَكۡنَا مِن قَبۡلِهِم مِّن قَرۡنٖ فَنَادَواْ وَّلَاتَ حِينَ مَنَاصٖ

˹Imagine˺ how many peoples We destroyed before them, and they cried out when it was too late to escape.

Word by word

كَمۡ
kam
How many
Vocabulary
أَهۡلَكۡنَا
ahlaknā
We destroyed
Vocabulary
Root: هلك
مِن
min
before them
Vocabulary
قَبۡلِهِم
qablihim
before them
Vocabulary
Root: قبل
مِّن
min
of
Vocabulary
قَرۡنٖ
qarnin
a generation
Vocabulary
Root: قرن
فَنَادَواْ
fanādaw
then they called out
Vocabulary
Root: ندو
وَّلَاتَ
walāta
when there (was) no longer
Vocabulary
Root: لوت
حِينَ
ḥīna
time
Vocabulary
Root: حين
مَنَاصٖ
manāṣin
(for) escape
Vocabulary
Root: نوص

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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.