Abdel Haleem Word Analysis

that God let loose against them for seven consecutive nights, eight consecutive days, so that you could have seen its people lying dead like hollow palm-trunks
Abdel Haleem Arabic Root / Link Morphology
Which He imposed
سَخَّرَهَا (sakharahā)
س خ ر
Verb
V
upon them
عَلَيْهِمْ (ʿalayhim)
ع ل ي
Prep.
Prep
(for) seven
سَبْعَ (sabʿa)
س ب ع
Noun
Noun
nights
لَيَالٍ (layālin)
ل ي ل
Noun
Noun
and eight
وَثَمَٰنِيَةَ (wathamāniyata)
ث م ن
Noun
Noun
days
أَيَّامٍ (ayyāmin)
ي و م
Noun
Noun
(in) succession
حُسُومًا (ḥusūman)
ح س م
Noun
Noun
so you would see
فَتَرَى (fatarā)
ر أ ي
Verb
V
the people
ٱلْقَوْمَ (l-qawma)
ق و م
Noun
Noun
therein
فِيهَا (fīhā)
ف ي
Prep.
Prep
fallen
صَرْعَىٰ (ṣarʿā)
ص ر ع
Noun
Noun
as if they were
كَأَنَّهُمْ (ka-annahum)
ك ا ن
Prep.
Prep
trunks
أَعْجَازُ (aʿjāzu)
ع ج ز
Noun
Noun
(of) date-palms
نَخْلٍ (nakhlin)
ن خ ل
Noun
Noun
hollow
خَاوِيَةٍ (khāwiyatin)
خ و ي
Noun
Noun