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Al-Qamar 54:31

إِنَّآ أَرۡسَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمۡ صَيۡحَةٗ وَٰحِدَةٗ فَكَانُواْ كَهَشِيمِ ٱلۡمُحۡتَظِرِ

Indeed, We sent against them ˹only˺ one ˹mighty˺ blast, leaving them like the twigs of fence-builders.

Word by word

إِنَّآ
innā
Indeed We
Vocabulary
أَرۡسَلۡنَا
arsalnā
[We] sent
Vocabulary
Root: رسل
عَلَيۡهِمۡ
ʿalayhim
upon them
Vocabulary
صَيۡحَةٗ
ṣayḥatan
thunderous blast
Vocabulary
Root: صيح
وَٰحِدَةٗ
wāḥidatan
single
Vocabulary
Root: وحد
فَكَانُواْ
fakānū
and they became
Vocabulary
Root: كون
كَهَشِيمِ
kahashīmi
like dry twig fragments
Vocabulary
Root: هشم
ٱلۡمُحۡتَظِرِ
l-muḥ'taẓiri
(used by) a fence builder
Vocabulary
Root: حظر

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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.