# Kaf-Sad-Mim — قصم (qSm)

> Occurs in 1 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/qSm

- **Meaning:** to break in pieces, shatter, demolish utterly, destroy completely.
- **Derived forms:** قَصَمْ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 21. Surah Al-Anbiya, Verse 11

- **Form in this verse:** قَصَمْنَا — qaṣamnā · "We (have) shattered"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 1st person, plural · past tense

وَكَمْ قَصَمْنَا مِنْ قَرْيَةٍ كَانَتْ ظَالِمَةً وَاَنْشَأْنَا بَعْدَهَا قَوْماً اٰخَر۪ينَ

Wakam qasamna min qaryatin kanatthalimatan waansha/na baAAdahaqawman akhareen

And how many a city that was doing wrong did We utterly destroy, and produced after it another people!

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anbiya/verse-11.md_

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