Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

Then made it blackening decaying herbage

فَجَعَلَهُ غُثَٓاءً اَحْوٰىۜ
FajaAAalahu ghuthaan ahwa
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1fajaʿalahuAnd then makes itجعل
2ghuthāanstubbleغثو
3aḥwādarkحوي
  • Aisha Bewley

    then makes it blackened stubble.

  • Progressive Muslims

    So He made it dry-up into hay.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    And then turns it into rust-brown residue. (18:45).

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    Then made it blackening decaying herbage

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    SoHe made it dry-up into hay.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    So He made it dry up into hay.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    Then turns it into light hay.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Then reduces them to rusty rubbish.

  • Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

    And makes it black stubble.

  • Muhammad Asad

    and thereupon causes it to decay into rust-brown stubble!

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Then turneth it to russet stubble.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    and then made it into a blackish straw.

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    Then He makes it decay and causes its degeneration,

  • Bijan Moeinian

    … colonize the earth with plants and then transfers it into a bunch of hay.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    And then makes it dark stubble.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    And then doth make it (but) swarthy stubble.

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    then reduces it to withered chaff.

  • Taqi Usmani

    then turned it into a blackening stubble.

  • Abdul Haleem

    then made it dark debris.

  • Arthur John Arberry

    then made it a blackening wrack.

  • E. Henry Palmer

    and then makes it dusky stubble!

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Then turns it to dusky stubble!

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Then He made it a dark (Or: stubble including all pasturage) stubble.

  • George Sale

    and afterwards rendereth the same dry stubble of a dusky hue.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    And then makes it dry and stalky (with grain).

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    And then turns it into dried up rubbish, gray coloured.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    then turned it into a black scum.