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An-Naba 78:40

إِنَّآ أَنذَرۡنَٰكُمۡ عَذَابٗا قَرِيبٗا يَوۡمَ يَنظُرُ ٱلۡمَرۡءُ مَا قَدَّمَتۡ يَدَاهُ وَيَقُولُ ٱلۡكَافِرُ يَٰلَيۡتَنِي كُنتُ تُرَٰبَۢا

Indeed, We have warned you of an imminent punishment—the Day every person will see ˹the consequences of˺ what their hands have done, and the disbelievers will cry, “I wish I were dust.”

Word by word

إِنَّآ
innā
Indeed We
Vocabulary
أَنذَرۡنَٰكُمۡ
andharnākum
[We] have warned you
Vocabulary
Root: نذر
عَذَابٗا
ʿadhāban
(of) a punishment
Vocabulary
Root: عذب
قَرِيبٗا
qarīban
near
Vocabulary
Root: قرب
يَوۡمَ
yawma
(the) Day
Vocabulary
Root: يوم
يَنظُرُ
yanẓuru
will see
Vocabulary
Root: نظر
ٱلۡمَرۡءُ
l-maru
the man
Vocabulary
Root: مرا
مَا
mā
what
Vocabulary
قَدَّمَتۡ
qaddamat
have sent forth
Vocabulary
Root: قدم
يَدَاهُ
yadāhu
his hands
Vocabulary
Root: يدي
وَيَقُولُ
wayaqūlu
and will say
Vocabulary
Root: قول
ٱلۡكَافِرُ
l-kāfiru
the disbeliever
Vocabulary
Root: كفر
يَٰلَيۡتَنِي
yālaytanī
O I wish
Vocabulary
كُنتُ
kuntu
I were
Vocabulary
Root: كون
تُرَٰبَۢا
turāban
dust!
Vocabulary
Root: ترب

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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.