Detailed Exegesis

Qarya (“village”): Qarya and Qirya—with fatḥa and kasra—refers to a populated city and any place where people have gathered.(297) Sometimes qarya is also applied to the people themselves, as in “And ask the village”(298), where it is said that there is an omitted muḍāf (possessive construction) and the intended meaning is “people of the village”.(299)(296)

An yuḍayyifūhumā (“to host them”): Ḍayf originally means inclination towards something, and “ḍiftu ilā kadhā” means “I inclined towards such and such.” The term iḍāfa (addition) is also related to this meaning. Ḍayf meaning “to become a guest” also comes from this root. The original ḍayf is a verbal noun, thus it is the same in singular and plural, though it can be pluralized as ḍuyūf, aḍyāf, and ḍīfān. Muḍayyif(300) and muḍīf mean host. “Fa-aḍifnī wa-ajirnī” means “take me as a guest and grant me protection in your mercy”.(301)

Jidār (“wall”): Jidār means wall and its plural is judur. A wall is called jidār with respect to its height, and ḥāʾiṭ in terms of its enclosing a space.(302)

Yanqaḍḍu (“to collapse”): Naqḍ means falling, being destroyed, and being demolished.(303) “Faqaḍaḍtuhu fa-nqaḍḍa” and “inqaḍḍa l-ḥāʾiṭ” mean “the wall fell down and was destroyed”.(304)

Lattakhadhta (“you could have taken”): Takhidha means akhadha (to take), and ittakhadha is from the iftiʿāl form where its tāʾ is merged with the tāʾ of the form.(305)