But We bore him on a (vessel made) of planks and oakum,
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (and we carried him) i.e. noah and those who believed in him (upon a thing of planks and nails) an ark,
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and we bore him, that is, noah, on one, a ship, [made] of planks and nails (dusur is what boards are fastened down with of nails and the like; the singular is disār, similar [in pattern] to [kutub] kitāb, ‘book’),