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Qaf 50:36

وَكَمۡ أَهۡلَكۡنَا قَبۡلَهُم مِّن قَرۡنٍ هُمۡ أَشَدُّ مِنۡهُم بَطۡشٗا فَنَقَّبُواْ فِي ٱلۡبِلَٰدِ هَلۡ مِن مَّحِيصٍ

˹Imagine˺ how many peoples We destroyed before them, who were far mightier than them. Then ˹when the torment came,˺ they ˹desperately˺ sought refuge in the land. ˹But˺ was there any escape?

Word by word

وَكَمۡ
wakam
And how many
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أَهۡلَكۡنَا
ahlaknā
We destroyed
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Root: هلك
قَبۡلَهُم
qablahum
before them
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Root: قبل
مِّن
min
of
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قَرۡنٍ
qarnin
a generation
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Root: قرن
هُمۡ
hum
they
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أَشَدُّ
ashaddu
(were) stronger
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Root: شدد
مِنۡهُم
min'hum
than them
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بَطۡشٗا
baṭshan
(in) power
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Root: بطش
فَنَقَّبُواْ
fanaqqabū
so they explored
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Root: نقب
فِي
fī
throughout
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ٱلۡبِلَٰدِ
l-bilādi
the lands
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Root: بلد
هَلۡ
hal
Is (there)
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مِن
min
any
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مَّحِيصٍ
maḥīṣin
place of escape
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Root: حيص

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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.