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Az-Zukhruf 43:8

فَأَهۡلَكۡنَآ أَشَدَّ مِنۡهُم بَطۡشٗا وَمَضَىٰ مَثَلُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ

So We destroyed those who were far mightier than these ˹Meccans˺. The examples of ˹their˺ predecessors have ˹already˺ been related. 

Word by word

فَأَهۡلَكۡنَآ
fa-ahlaknā
Then We destroyed
Vocabulary
Root: هلك
أَشَدَّ
ashadda
stronger
Vocabulary
Root: شدد
مِنۡهُم
min'hum
than them
Vocabulary
بَطۡشٗا
baṭshan
(in) power
Vocabulary
Root: بطش
وَمَضَىٰ
wamaḍā
and has passed
Vocabulary
Root: مضي
مَثَلُ
mathalu
(the) example
Vocabulary
Root: مثل
ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ
l-awalīna
(of) the former (people)
Vocabulary
Root: اول

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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.