The letter Saad 38:3Quranic text
كَمْأَهْلَكْنَامِنقَبْلِهِممِّنقَرْنٍفَنَادَوا۟وَّلَاتَحِينَمَنَاصٍ
Reference 38:3Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 38:3:2
أَهْلَكْنَا
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- أَهْلَكْنَا Quranic text
- Simple
- أَهْلَكْنَا
- Without tashkeel
- أهلكنا
- Normalised (searchable)
- اهلكنا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 38 · The letter Saad
- Verse
- 38:3
- Word in verse
- 2
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:38:3:2
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- We destroyed
- Transliteration
- ahlaknā
- Root
- ه ل كh-l-k
- Lemma
- أَهْلَكَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 4
Sub-word segments
- أَهْلَكْstem · V · ه ل ك
- نَاsuffix · PRON
Morphology is an external annotation from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus, licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. It is not Quranic text and never alters the token.
In context
Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 38:3 — the whole verse this word appears in — not this word alone. The correspondence is verse-level: no word-level alignment of translations exists for these editions, so we do not claim which English word renders this Arabic word. Compare the editions →
How many generations have We destroyed before them? They cried out when it was too late to escapeHow many a generation We destroyed before them, and they cried out when it was no longer the time for escapeHow many generations have we destroyed before them! And they cried for mercy but no time was it of escapeHow many a generation have we destroyed before them, and they cried out, but it was no time to escapeSame form · 15 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form أَهْلَكْنَا appears 15 times in the corpus.
- أَهْلَكْنَا6:6:4
- أَهْلَكْنَا10:13:2
- أَهْلَكْنَا15:4:2
- أَهْلَكْنَا17:17:2
- أَهْلَكْنَا19:74:2
- أَهْلَكْنَا19:98:2
- أَهْلَكْنَا20:128:5
- أَهْلَكْنَا26:208:2
- أَهْلَكْنَا28:43:8
- أَهْلَكْنَا28:58:2
- أَهْلَكْنَا32:26:5
- أَهْلَكْنَا36:31:4
Root ه ل ك · 68 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ه ل ك occurs 68 times across 40 distinct forms.
- ٱلتَّهْلُكَةِ2:195:9
- وَيُهْلِكَ2:205:8
- فَأَهْلَكَتْهُ3:117:17
- هَلَكَ4:176:9
- يُهْلِكَ5:17:20
- أَهْلَكْنَا6:6:4
- فَأَهْلَكْنَٰهُم6:6:25
- يُهْلِكُونَ6:26:7
- يُهْلَكُ6:47:11
- مُهْلِكَ6:131:6
- أَهْلَكْنَٰهَا7:4:4
- يُهْلِكَ7:129:15
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