Popular Translations
Muhammad 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
Arthur John Arberry
And the moon -- We have determined it by stations, till it returns like an aged palm-bough
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
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
Arabic
وَٱلۡقَمَرَ قَدَّرۡنَـٰهُ مَنَازِلَ حَتَّىٰ عَادَ كَٱلۡعُرۡجُونِ ٱلۡقَدِیمِ ٣٩
Transliteration (2021)
wal-qamara qaddarnāhu manāzila ḥattā ʿāda kal-ʿur'jūni l-qadīm