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Sealed1 occurrences وئد w'd To bury alive: to put into the ground a being that still lives. Uses 1. ٱلْمَوْءُۥدَةُ → "the girl buried alive" : feminine passive participle: the one buried while alive… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وئل w'l The place where one is saved: the shelter one seeks before what threatens. Uses 1. مَوْئِل → "harbor" : the shelter sought before the fixed appointment; the verse says th… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وبر wbr The fine hair of certain animals, distinct from wool and from coarse hair. Uses 1. أَوْبَار → "their fur" : the soft fibre, named between wool and hair. «وَمِنْ أَصْوَافِ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences وبق wbq The disaster that strikes in return for a deed: the place where it is consummated, or the act that inflicts it. Uses 1. مَوْبِق → "a place of disaster" : the place set, o… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences وبل wbl What strikes with force and weight whoever it reaches: the torrential rain, and the heavy consequence of a deed. Uses 1. وَابِل → "a torrential rain" : the downpour that… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences وتد wtd The stake driven in to hold fast what is stretched: the mountains planted in the earth, the stakes of Fir'awn. Uses 1. أَوْتَادًۭا → "stakes" : the mountains, planted in… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences وتر wtr To be single, without a second: the odd, what comes one by one, and the one left alone, stripped of what is his due. Uses 1. ٱلْوَتْرِ → "the odd" : what remains alone, s… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وتن wtn The main artery that carries life: to sever it is to cut life off at its source. Uses 1. ٱلْوَتِين → "the aorta" : the vital artery, named in the hypothesis of a messenge… Read the entry → Sealed34 occurrences وثق wthq To bind firmly: the bond that holds, whether it commits one's word or restrains the body. Uses 1. مِيثَٰق, مَوْثِق → "solemn engagement" : the commitment taken before God… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences وثن wthn The idol: the made object that is served besides God. Uses 1. ٱلْأَوْثَٰن / أَوْثَٰنًۭا → "idols" : the object served, always named to be set aside. «فَٱجْتَنِبُوا۟ ٱلرِّ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وجب wjb To fall with all one's weight and stay on the ground. Uses 1. وَجَبَتْ → "collapse" : the flanks of the offering animal that touch the ground and do not rise again. «فَإِ… Read the entry → Sealed107 occurrences وجد wjd To find: to ascertain what is there, what one sought or what presents itself. Uses 1. وَجَدَ, يَجِدُ → "find" : to ascertain a thing or a state. «وَجَدُوا۟ بِضَٰعَتَهُمْ… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences وجس wjs To conceive within oneself a fear that does not yet show. Uses 1. أَوْجَسَ, فَأَوْجَسَ, وَأَوْجَسَ → "to feel a fear" : the inward fear before guests one does not recogni… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences وجف wjf To be stirred by a swift movement: the launched run of a mount, or the trembling of a core. Uses 1. أَوْجَفَ → "spur" : to launch a mount at a run, on campaign. «فَمَآ أَ… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences وجل wjl To tremble within before what exceeds oneself: at the mention of God, before the return to Him, or before strangers. Uses 1. وَجِلَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ → "cores tremble" : the… Read the entry → Sealed78 occurrences وجه wjh The face: what one presents and turns toward something; hence the direction one aims at and the standing one receives. Uses 1. وَجْه, وُجُوه → "face", "faces" : the face,… Read the entry → Sealed68 occurrences وحد whd To be one, without a second: the number one, the unique, and what is alone. Uses 1. وَٰحِد, وَٰحِدَة → "one" / "a single" : the numeral one: a deity, a community, an orig… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وحش whsh The wild animal, which lives scattered, away from people. Uses 1. ٱلْوُحُوش → "the wild beasts" : gathered on the Day, among the signs of the upheaval. «وَإِذَا ٱلْوُحُوش… Read the entry → Sealed78 occurrences وحى wha To convey to someone, directly and out of others' sight, what he must know or do: God's revelation to His messengers, the instruction given to the bee, the silent sign, t… Read the entry → Sealed29 occurrences ودد wdd To want with all one's attachment: to wish that a state were so, or to bear affection to someone. Uses 1. وَدَّ / يَوَدُّ … لَوْ → "would like" : the wish for a state tha… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences ودع wd' To leave without breaking off: to take leave of someone, to leave a thing aside, or to leave it in deposit. Uses 1. وَدَّعَ → "dismiss" : God has not dismissed His messen… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ودق wdq The rain that comes out of the cloud, at the end of its forming. Uses 1. ٱلْوَدْق → "the shower" : the water seen coming out of the gathered cloud. «فَتَرَى ٱلْوَدْقَ يَخ… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences ودى wda The elongated hollow between heights, through which water passes; the same root names the compensation delivered for a lost life. Uses 1. وَاد, أَوْدِيَة → "valley", "val… Read the entry → Sealed45 occurrences وذر wdhr To let be: to cease attending to a person or a thing and hand it over to its own course. Uses 1. ذَرْهُمْ, فَذَرْهُمْ → "forsake them", "let them be" : handing those who… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences ورد wrd To arrive at the point one is heading for, first the watering point: the word says the arrival, not the nature of the place reached. Uses 1. أَوْرَدَ → "bring to arrive"… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences ورق wrq A thin, flat matter: the leaf of the tree, and the beaten metal from which money is made. Uses 1. وَرَقَةٍ, وَرَقِ → "leaf" / "leaves" : the falling leaf, known to God; t… Read the entry → Sealed32 occurrences ورى wra What is out of sight: the space behind, and the act of covering or removing from view. Uses 1. وَرَآءَ → "behind" : the position out of sight: behind the back, behind one… Read the entry → Sealed27 occurrences وزر wzr The weight one carries on one's own account; the assistant is the one who takes part in that weight, and, in a single isolated use, the word names the support one withdra… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences وزع wz' To contain a whole so as to order it: to arrange a multitude in columns, or to carry an impulse toward an act. Uses 1. يُوزَعُونَ → "arranged in columns", "marshaled in c… Read the entry → Sealed23 occurrences وزن wzn To weigh: to give each thing its exact weight, in trade, in creation and in the judgment of deeds. Uses 1. وَزِنُوا۟ → "weigh" : the order to weigh rightly. «وَزِنُوا۟ بِ… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences وسط wst The middle: what stands at the centre, equidistant from the extremes, and for that reason the best. Uses 1. وَسَطًۭا → "exemplary" : the community set in the middle, to s… Read the entry → Sealed32 occurrences وسع ws' To have room for: the extent that contains, the measure of what one can bear, the ease one has at one's disposal. Uses 1. وَٰسِع, وَٰسِعَة → "Vast", "vast" : the boundles… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences وسق wsq To gather into a whole what was scattered, up to fullness: the night gathering what it covers, the moon becoming full. Uses 1. وَسَقَ → "gather" : what the night brings t… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences وسل wsl The means by which one seeks to draw near to what is higher than oneself. Uses 1. ٱلْوَسِيلَة → "the means of nearness" : the path one seeks toward God, not the end. «وَٱ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences وسم wsm The mark: the distinctive trait one reads on a thing or stamps on someone. Uses 1. لِّلْمُتَوَسِّمِينَ → "those who can read the marks" : those who read the marks and dra… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وسن wsn The light drowsing that comes before sleep. Uses 1. سِنَة → "somnolence" : the first degree of sleep, denied of God together with sleep itself. «لَا تَأْخُذُهُۥ سِنَةٌۭ و… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences وسوس wsws To whisper: to slip in a suggestion in a low voice, without confronting. Uses 1. وَسْوَسَ, تُوَسْوِسُ → "whisper" : the Diverter, or the Self itself, slips in its suggest… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وشى wsha The mark that breaks a uniform colour. Uses 1. شِيَة → "spot" : any mark that would break the unity of the coat. «مُسَلَّمَةٌۭ لَّا شِيَةَ فِيهَا» — "unblemished, without… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences وصب wsb To last without interruption. Uses 1. وَاصِبًا → "permanently" : the Law that belongs to God without suspension. «وَلَهُ ٱلدِّينُ وَاصِبًا» — "and to Him the Law, permane… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences وصد wsd To close an access firmly: the threshold kept shut, the fire locked upon those it encloses. Uses 1. بِٱلْوَصِيدِ → "the threshold" : the threshold of the passage kept shu… Read the entry → Sealed14 occurrences وصف wsf To describe: to attribute a quality by speech, most often without ground. Uses 1. وَصَفَ, يَصِفُ → "describe" : what one ascribes to God or puts forward as true. «فَسُبْح… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences وصل wsl To join: to connect what must hold together, or to reach someone. Uses 1. يُوصَلَ, يَصِلُونَ → "join" : the bond God has commanded to be kept. «وَيَقْطَعُونَ مَآ أَمَرَ ٱ… Read the entry → Sealed32 occurrences وصى wsa To entrust another with a directive so that he follows it: God's recommendation, the instruction believers pass to one another, the testament that settles what remains af… Read the entry → Sealed26 occurrences وضع wd' To set down: to put a thing in its place, to lay it down, to lift it from another, or to bring forth the child carried. Uses 1. وَضَعَ / وُضِعَ → "set down" : to give a t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وضن wdn To weave tightly, strand over strand, into a solid piece. Uses 1. مَوْضُونَة → "woven" : the couches of the foremost brought near, made of woven work. «عَلَىٰ سُرُرٍۢ مَّ… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences وطء wt' To set the foot down pressing: to tread ground, to trample what one crushes, to leave an imprint. Uses 1. تَطَـُٔوهَا, يَطَـُٔونَ, مَوْطِئًۭا → "tread" : setting foot on… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences وطر wtr The need, the purpose that one carries to its end. Uses 1. وَطَر → "end all ties" : قَضَىٰ وَطَرًا: to have carried through what bound, so that the union is closed. «فَلَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وطن wtn The place where one stands and takes position. Uses 1. مَوَاطِنَ → "places" : the places where the believers held position and were helped. «لَقَدْ نَصَرَكُمُ ٱللَّهُ فِى… Read the entry → Sealed151 occurrences وعد w'd To commit oneself for the future: the promise, the set appointment, and, against those who deny, the threat. Uses 1. وَعَدَ, يَعِدُ → "promise" : to commit oneself to wha… Read the entry → Sealed25 occurrences وعظ w'z To remind someone of what sets him right, by a word that counsels and urges. Uses 1. وَعَظَ, يَعِظ → "to exhort" : to urge toward good by speech. «يَعِظُكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences وعى w'a To contain and hold enclosed what one has received: the bag that contains, the ear that keeps the word, the person who locks away what he amassed or what he thinks. Uses… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وفد wfd To come as a delegation: to present oneself together, received with honour. Uses 1. وَفْدًۭا → "as a delegation" : those who guarded themselves, received by the All-Benev… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وفر wfr That which is at its full measure, with nothing taken away. Uses 1. مَوْفُور → "abundant" : the recompense given whole, without reduction. «فَإِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ جَزَآؤُكُمْ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وفض wfd To hasten, all together, toward one same point. Uses 1. يُوفِضُونَ → "racing" : the run of those coming out of the sepulchres toward a raised marker. «كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences وفق wfq To make two terms that stood apart correspond exactly: two spouses, an intention and an act, an effort and its outcome, a fault and its recompense. Uses 1. يُوَفِّق → "br… Read the entry → Sealed66 occurrences وفى wfa To hold to the end: to be faithful to a commitment, to repay the due in full, to keep what is entrusted so as to return it intact. Uses 1. أَوْفَىٰ بِٱلْعَهْدِ → "be fait… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وقب wqb To enter and sink in until occupying the space. Uses 1. وَقَبَ → "penetrates" : the darkness that enters and takes over the whole space. «وَمِن شَرِّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبَ… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences وقت wqt To fix a moment: the time set in advance at which a thing is to take place. Uses 1. مِيقَٰت, مَوَٰقِيتُ → "appointed time" : the moment set by an authority, for a meeting… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences وقد wqd To kindle fire and keep it going: the act that lights it, the matter that feeds it, the fire thus kept alight. Uses 1. ٱسْتَوْقَدَ, أَوْقَدَ, تُوقِدُونَ → "kindle" : the… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وقذ wqdh The state of the animal that declines toward death, without having been put to death. Uses 1. ٱلْمَوْقُوذَة → "the animal on the brink of death" : prohibited, beside beas… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences وقر wqr Weight: the weight that blocks the ear into deafness, the weight that is carried, and the weight that commands respect. Uses 1. وَقْر → "a deafness" : the weight placed i… Read the entry → Sealed24 occurrences وقع wq' To arrive effectively where one ends: the mass that comes down on what lies beneath, the coming of what was announced. Uses 1. وَقَعَ, وَاقِع → "to befall" : the effectiv… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences وقف wqf To halt someone and hold him before an authority about to judge him. Uses 1. وُقِفُوا۟ → "halted" : the passive: they are halted before the Fire, before their Guardian. «… Read the entry → Sealed258 occurrences وقى wqa To place a protection between oneself and what threatens: to guard oneself, or to guard another. Uses 1. ٱتَّقُوا۟ / يَتَّقُونَ → "guard oneself" : toward God, vigilance… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences وكء wk' To lean on a support and rest one's weight on it: the elbow on the couch, the hand on the staff. Uses 1. مُتَّكِئِين, مُتَّكِئُون → "reclining" : the resting posture of t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وكد wkd To make firmer what is already concluded: to affirm an oath. Uses 1. تَوْكِيد → "affirm" : the reinforced oath, which one does not break afterwards. «وَلَا تَنقُضُوا۟ ٱلْ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وكز wkz To strike with a blow of the fist. Uses 1. وَكَزَ → "to strike with the fist" : a single blow, followed at once by its effect. «فَوَكَزَهُۥ مُوسَىٰ فَقَضَىٰ عَلَيْهِ» — "… Read the entry → Sealed70 occurrences وكل wkl To hand over an affair to another so that he answers for it in one's place: the one who hands over entrusts himself, the one who receives is trustee. Uses 1. تَوَكَّلَ, ي… Read the entry → Sealed14 occurrences ولج wlj To enter into the inside of something, to slip into it. Uses 1. يُولِج → "to make penetrate" : to make the night enter the day and the day the night. «يُولِجُ ٱلَّيْلَ فِ… Read the entry → Sealed102 occurrences ولد wld To beget: the bond of birth between the one who begets and the one who is born. Uses 1. وَلَد, أَوْلَٰد → "child" / "children" : the one born, with no mark of sex. «ٱتَّخ… Read the entry → Sealed232 occurrences ولى wla To be right next to: to stand nearest to someone to take charge of him, to turn one's face toward a direction, or to carry it elsewhere. Uses 1. وَلِىّ → "protector", "th… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ونى wna To slacken in effort, to lose one's momentum. Uses 1. تَنِيَا → "to slow down" : to lose momentum in the course of a mission. «وَلَا تَنِيَا فِى ذِكْرِى» — "and do not sl… Read the entry → Sealed25 occurrences وهب whb To bestow: to give a being or a quality, whole, without measure or return. Uses 1. هَبْ, وَهَبْ → "bestow on me", "bestow on us" : the invocation that asks for a gift. «ر… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وهج whj To burn while radiating: the bright heat that gives light. Uses 1. وَهَّاجًۭا → "incandescent" : the torch placed above mankind, which warms and gives light. «وَجَعَلْنَا… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences وهن whn To lose one's strength to resist: to slacken under trial, to grow frail with age, to give way like a fragile material. Uses 1. تَهِنُوا, وَهَنُوا → "to slacken" : the giv… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences وهى wha To lose cohesion to the point of coming apart: what held together becomes frail. Uses 1. وَاهِيَة → "frail" : the split sky, deprived of its hold. «وَٱنشَقَّتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ… Read the entry → Sealed40 occurrences ويل wyl A cry announcing an ominous fate, uttered upon others for a named fault, or by the one who discovers his own fate. Uses 1. وَيْلٌ لِـ → "woe to" : woe announced upon a ca… Read the entry →