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Al-Fajr · Ayah 2

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And the nights

وَلَيَالٍ

And the nights

وَHarf · Conjunction

Conjunction: connects words, phrases, or clauses

and

لَيَالٍIsm · Noun

GenitiveIndefiniteMasculinePlural

Rootليل

★★★★Common

night, the time starting from sunset to the dawn

Lemmaلَيْل

Nominal (1) Noun

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Indefinite noun

وَلَيَالٍ (And the nights) 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)

وَلَيَالٍ (And the nights) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".

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

And [by] ten nights

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