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Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran - 36:39 | |
| < 36:40 36:38 > |
| Transliteration | Waalqamara qaddarnahu manazila hatta AAada kaalAAurjooni alqadeemi |
| Literal | And the moon We predestined/evaluated it (in) sequences/descents until it returned as/like the palm tree's branch/date bunch, the old . |
| Yusuf Ali | And the Moon,- We have measured for her mansions (to traverse) till she returns like the old (and withered) lower part of a date-stalk. |
| Pickthal | And for the moon We have appointed mansions till she return like an old shrivelled palm-leaf. |
| Arberry | And the moon -- We have determined it by stations, till it returns like an aged palm-bough. |
| Shakir | And (as for) the moon, We have ordained for it stages till it becomes again as an old dry palm branch. |
| Sarwar | how We ordained the moon to pass through certain phases until it seems eventually to be like a bent twig; |
| Khalifa | The moon we designed to appear in stages, until it becomes like an old curved sheath. |
| Hilali/Khan | And the moon, We have measured for it mansions (to traverse) till it returns like the old dried curved date stalk. |
| H/K/Saheeh | And the moon We have determined for it phases, until it returns [appearing] like the old date stalk. |
| Malik | As for the moon, We have designed phases for it till it again becomes like an old dry palm branch.[39] |
| QXP | And the moon: We have measured for it phases until it becomes (a crescent) like an old curved date-stalk. |
| Maulana Ali | And the moon, We have ordained for it stages till it becomes again as an old dry palm-branch. |
| Free Minds | And the moon We have measured it to appear in stages, until it returns to being like an old curved sheath. |
| Qaribullah | And the moon, We have determined it in phases till it returns like an old palmbranch. |
| George Sale | And for the moon have We appointed certain mansions, until she change and return to be like the old branch of a palm-tree. |
| JM Rodwell | And as for the Moon, We have decreed stations for it, till it change like an old and crooked palm branch. |
| Asad | and [in] the moon, for which We have determined phases [which it must traverse] till it becomes like an old date-stalk, dried-up and curved: [This is, in a condensed form, the meaning of the noun urjun - the raceme of the date-palm, which, when old and dry, becomes slender and curves like a crescent (cf. Lane V, 1997).] |
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