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Qur’an 90:14 Al-Balad, verse 14

أَوْ إِطْعَٰمٌۭ فِى يَوْمٍۢ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍۢ

Or feeding on a day of severe hunger

Translation: Saheeh International. Brackets mark words added for clarity.

Surah: Al-Balad (90)
Verse: 14 of 20
Revealed: Makki
Juz: 30
Mushaf page: 594

Word by word

Arabic	Transliteration	Meaning	Root
أَوْ	aw	Or
إِطْعَـٰمٌۭ	iṭ'ʿāmun	feeding	ط ع م
فِى	fī	in
يَوْمٍۢ	yawmin	a day	ي و م
ذِى	dhī	of
مَسْغَبَةٍۢ	masghabatin	severe hunger	س غ ب

Tap a root to see every word built from it. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources.

In context

The verses around 90:14 in Al-Balad.

90:12وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْعَقَبَةُAnd what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?
90:13فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍIt is the freeing of a slave
90:15يَتِيمًۭا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍAn orphan of near relationship
90:16أَوْ مِسْكِينًۭا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍۢOr a needy person in misery

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