56:14

Al-Waqi'ah · Ayah 14

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And a few

وَقَلِيلٌۭ

And a few

وHarf · Conjunction

Conjunction: connects words, phrases, or clauses

and

قليلIsm · Noun

NominativeIndefiniteMasculineSingular

Rootقلل

★★★★Common

to be few, little, small in quantity or number

Lemmaقَلِيل

Nominal (1) Noun

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Indefinite noun

وَقَلِيلٌۭ (And a few) has no ال and takes tanwīn (the "n" sound at the end), so it means "a" or "some" — not a specific one.

We translate it as "a/an" or leave it general.

Conjunction وَ (and)

وَقَلِيلٌۭ (And a few) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".

We add "and" to connect this to what came before.

And a few of the later peoples,

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