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Al-Ahqaf 46:27

وَلَقَدۡ أَهۡلَكۡنَا مَا حَوۡلَكُم مِّنَ ٱلۡقُرَىٰ وَصَرَّفۡنَا ٱلۡأٓيَٰتِ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَرۡجِعُونَ

We certainly destroyed the societies around you after having varied the signs so perhaps they would return ˹to the Right Path˺.

Word by word

وَلَقَدۡ
walaqad
And certainly
Vocabulary
أَهۡلَكۡنَا
ahlaknā
We destroyed
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Root: هلك
مَا
mā
what
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حَوۡلَكُم
ḥawlakum
surrounds you
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Root: حول
مِّنَ
mina
of
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ٱلۡقُرَىٰ
l-qurā
the towns
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Root: قري
وَصَرَّفۡنَا
waṣarrafnā
and We have diversified
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Root: صرف
ٱلۡأٓيَٰتِ
l-āyāti
the Signs
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لَعَلَّهُمۡ
laʿallahum
that they may
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يَرۡجِعُونَ
yarjiʿūna
return
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Root: رجع

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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.