Aslam

All passages Sign in to save

Al-Qamar 54:20

تَنزِعُ ٱلنَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمۡ أَعۡجَازُ نَخۡلٖ مُّنقَعِرٖ

that snatched people up, leaving them like trunks of uprooted palm trees.

Word by word

تَنزِعُ
tanziʿu
Plucking out
Vocabulary
Root: نزع
ٱلنَّاسَ
l-nāsa
men
Vocabulary
Root: نوس
كَأَنَّهُمۡ
ka-annahum
as if they (were)
Vocabulary
أَعۡجَازُ
aʿjāzu
trunks
Vocabulary
Root: عجز
نَخۡلٖ
nakhlin
(of) date-palms
Vocabulary
Root: نخل
مُّنقَعِرٖ
munqaʿirin
uprooted
Vocabulary
Root: قعر

Read the full verse and commentary →

About the sources

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.