Quran 54:20 Word by Word & Translations

54:20 Word by Word (2021)

Plucking out men as if they (were) trunks (of) date-palms uprooted.


54:20 Arabic

تَنزِعُ ٱلنَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُّنقَعِرٍ

54:20 Transliteration

TanziAAu alnnasa kaannahum aAAjazu nakhlin munqaAAirin
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
It uprooted the people as if they were decayed palm tree trunks.
Abdel Haleem
it swept people away like uprooted palm trunks
Abdul Hye
snatching out the people as if they were uprooted stems of date-palms.
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Carrying men away as though they were trunks of palm-trees uprooted
Ahmed Ali
Which snatched away men as though they were palm trees pulled out by the roots
Ahmed Hulusi
Extracting the people as if they were uprooted trunks of palm trees.
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
It used to beat down the men as though they are the roots of uprooted palm trees
Aisha Bewley
It plucked up men like uprooted stumps.
Ali Ünal
Tearing people away as if they were trunks of uprooted palm-trees
Ali Quli Qara'i
knocking down people as if they were trunks of uprooted palm trees
Amatul Rahman Omar
It (- the howling wind) tore the people away as though they were the hollowed stumps of uprooted palm-trees
Arthur John Arberry
plucking up men as if they were stumps of uprooted palm-trees
Bakhtiari Nejad
knocking the people over as if they were uprooted trunks of date palms.
Bijan Moeinian
The storm was tossing people around as though they were decayed palm tree trunks
Bilal Muhammad 2018
Plucking out human beings, as if they were roots of palm trees torn up
Corpus.Quran
Plucking out men as if they (were) trunks (of) date-palms uprooted
Dr. Kamal Omar
It uproots human beings as if they (are) stems of date-palm tree that gets uprooted
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
tearing out humanity as if they had been uprooted palm trees, uprooted.
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
That plucked out people as if they were uprooted stems of date-palms
Dr. Munir Munshey
The winds wrested people away and knocked them around, as if they were hollowed out trunks of the date trees
Edward Henry Palmer
It reft men away as though they had been palm stumps torn up
Faridul Haque
Smashing down men as if they were uprooted trunks of date palms
Fode Drame
Plucking people as though they were trunks of date-tree uprooted.
George Sale
It carried men away, as though they had been roots of palm-trees forcibly torn up
Hamid S. Aziz
Tearing men away as if they were the trunks of palm-trees uprooted
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
and snatched people up as though they were stumps of uprooted palmtrees
Hilali - Khan
Plucking out men as if they were uprooted stems of date-palms
Irving/Hegab
which snatched men up as if they were hollow palm trunks.
John Medows Rodwell
It tore men away as though they were uprooted palm stumps
Linda "iLham" Barto
It plucked people as if they were trunks of uprooted palm trees.
Maududi
which tore people away and hurled them as though they were trunks of uprooted palm-trees
Maulana Muhammad Ali
How terrible was then My chastisement and My warning
Mir Aneesuddin
uprooting men as if they were trunks of uprooted date palms.
Mohammad Shafi
It [wind] swept away men as though they were trunks of uprooted palm-trees
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
It removes/pulls the people as if they are extracted/dead palm trees' ends
Muhammad Asad
it swept the people away as though they were palm-trunks uprooted
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
Plucking up mankind as if they were the stumps of uprooted palm-trees
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
Sweeping men away as though they were uprooted trunks of palm-trees
Muhammad Sarwar
which hurled people around like uprooted trunks of palm-trees
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
plucking people away, as if they were trunks of uprooted palm-trees
Munir Mezyed
Sweeping men away as if they were decayed palm tree trunks.
MunirMezyed2023
Sweeping men away as if they were decayed palm tree trunks.
Musharraf Hussain
which blew people away like uprooted palm trunks.
Mustafa Khattab 2018
that snatched people up, leaving them like trunks of uprooted palm trees.
Mustaqim
It uprooted people as if they were the stumps of cut down palm trees.
N J Dawood 2014
which snapped people off like trunks of uprooted palm trees
Rashad Khalifa
It tossed the people around as if they were decayed palm tree trunks.
Safi Kaskas
plucking people away, as if they were trunks of uprooted palm trees.
Samy Mahdy
Taking off the people, as they were trunks of uprooted palm-trees.
Shabbir Ahmed
Tossing people around like empty, uprooted palm-trunks
Shakir
Tearing men away as if they were the trunks of palm-trees torn up
Sher Ali
Tearing people away as though they were the hollow trunks of uprooted palm-trees
Syed Vickar Ahamed
Plucking out men as if they were roots of palm-trees torn up (from the ground)
T.B.Irving
which snatched men up as if they were hollow palm trunks.
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
Plucking people up, as if they were trunks of palm trees uprooted.
Talal Itani (2012)
Plucking the people away, as though they were trunks of uprooted palm-trees
The Study Quran
tearing out people as if they were uprooted palm trunks
The Wise Quran
Plucking up men as if they were stumps of uprooted palm-trees.
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
Extracting the people as if they were trunks of palm trees uprooted
Wahiduddin Khan
It swept people away as if they were trunks of uprooted palm trees
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Plucking out men as if they were roots of palm-trees torn up (from the ground)