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Adh-Dhariyat 51:44

فَعَتَوۡاْ عَنۡ أَمۡرِ رَبِّهِمۡ فَأَخَذَتۡهُمُ ٱلصَّـٰعِقَةُ وَهُمۡ يَنظُرُونَ

Still they persisted in defying the commands of their Lord, so they were overtaken by a ˹mighty˺ blast while they were looking on.

Word by word

فَعَتَوۡاْ
faʿataw
But they rebelled
Vocabulary
Root: عتو
عَنۡ
ʿan
against
Vocabulary
أَمۡرِ
amri
(the) Command
Vocabulary
Root: امر
رَبِّهِمۡ
rabbihim
(of) their Lord
Vocabulary
Root: ربب
فَأَخَذَتۡهُمُ
fa-akhadhathumu
so seized them
Vocabulary
Root: اخذ
ٱلصَّـٰعِقَةُ
l-ṣāʿiqatu
the thunderbolt
Vocabulary
Root: صعق
وَهُمۡ
wahum
while they
Vocabulary
يَنظُرُونَ
yanẓurūna
were looking
Vocabulary
Root: نظر

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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.