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Al-A'raf 7:4

وَكَم مِّن قَرۡيَةٍ أَهۡلَكۡنَٰهَا فَجَآءَهَا بَأۡسُنَا بَيَٰتًا أَوۡ هُمۡ قَآئِلُونَ

˹Imagine˺ how many societies We have destroyed! Our torment took them by surprise ˹while sleeping˺ at night or midday.

Word by word

وَكَم
wakam
And how many
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مِّن
min
of
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قَرۡيَةٍ
qaryatin
a city
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Root: قري
أَهۡلَكۡنَٰهَا
ahlaknāhā
We destroyed it
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Root: هلك
فَجَآءَهَا
fajāahā
and came to it
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Root: جيا
بَأۡسُنَا
basunā
Our punishment
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Root: باس
بَيَٰتًا
bayātan
(at) night
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Root: بيت
أَوۡ
aw
or
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هُمۡ
hum
(while) they
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قَآئِلُونَ
qāilūna
were sleeping at noon
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Root: قيل

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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.