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Sealed11 occurrences طبع tb' To imprint a mark on what receives it. The text uses it only for cores: a stamp that fixes the one who has disowned in his refusal, so that he no longer hears, understand… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences طبق tbq To lay one layer upon another in a regular order: the heavens set in tiers, or the states a human being passes through one after the other. Uses 1. طِبَاقًا → "in layers"… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences طحو thw To spread by unfolding: to give a surface its flat expanse. Uses 1. طَحَىٰهَا → "spread it" : said of the earth, laid out beneath the built sky. «وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا طَحَىٰ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences طرح trh To cast someone far away, out of his place: to remove him by throwing him toward another land. Uses 1. ٱطْرَحُوهُ → "deport him" : to send someone away toward an undeterm… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences طرد trd To chase someone from one's presence: to send him away from the circle where he stands. The text names this gesture only to forbid or refuse it, and always toward those w… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences طرف trf The edge of a thing, its outermost point: the extremities of the earth or of the day, a part detached from a whole, and the gaze, the moving edge of the eye. Uses 1. أَطْ… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences طرق trq To strike with repeated blows: the blow that comes, and the way traced by repeated steps, hence the constant manner of conducting oneself. Uses 1. ٱلطَّارِق → "the night… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences طرو trw The freshness of what has just been drawn from its element: flesh just drawn from the water. Uses 1. طَرِيًّا → "fresh" : qualifies the flesh drawn from the sea. «لِتَأْك… Read the entry → Sealed48 occurrences طعم t'm Food and what belongs to it: what is eaten, the gesture of giving it and that of taking it. Uses 1. طَعَام → "food" : what is eaten, food itself. «لَن نَّصْبِرَ عَلَىٰ طَ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences طعن t'n To strike with a piercing blow. The text uses it only with "the Law" as its target: to go after it, by twisted speech or by breaking a pact. Uses 1. طَعْنًا فِى ٱلدِّينِ… Read the entry → Sealed39 occurrences طغو tghw To overflow one's measure, like water leaving its bed: to go beyond every limit, in conduct as in power. Uses 1. طَغَىٰ, يَطْغَىٰ, تَطْغَوْا۟ → "to exceed all measure", "… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences طفء tf' To extinguish: to put an end to a fire or a light. Uses 1. أَطْفَأَ, يُطْفِئُوا۟ → "to extinguish" : said of the fire of war that God extinguishes, and of the light of Go… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences طفف tff To clip the measure: to take more than is due when receiving, to give less when rendering. Uses 1. ٱلْمُطَفِّفِين → "the defrauders" : those who falsify the measure to th… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences طفق tfq To set about: to enter suddenly into a gesture and keep at it. The verb does not state the action; it marks its start, and the verb that follows says what begins. Uses 1.… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences طفل tfl The child: the human being in the first age, before full maturity and before the threshold at which one becomes aware of intimacy. Uses 1. طِفْلًا → "a child" : the first… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences طلب tlb To move toward what one aims at in order to reach it: to pursue, to seek out, to solicit. Uses 1. يَطْلُبُهُۥ → "to pursue" : to follow closely what goes ahead. «يُغْشِى… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences طلح tlh The banana tree: a tree of the Garden, named only once, with its clusters set one upon another. Uses 1. طَلْح (with مَّنضُود) → "clustered banana trees" : the tree and it… Read the entry → Sealed19 occurrences طلع tl' To rise until it appears: what was hidden rises and shows itself, like the star on the horizon or the spathe on the palm; and, by the same gesture, to climb or lean over… Read the entry → Sealed23 occurrences طلق tlq To release what was held back: to undo the marriage bond, to set off, to let the tongue loosen. Uses 1. طَلَّقَ, ٱلطَّلَٰق → "to repudiate", "repudiation" : to undo the m… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences طلل tll Drizzle: the finest rain, at the other end from the torrential downpour. Uses 1. طَلّ → "a drizzle" : what falls when the downpour fails, and which still suffices for a w… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences طمث tmth To touch first: to reach what has never been reached. The text uses it only in negation, to state an integrity no one has broached. Uses 1. لَمْ يَطْمِثْهُنَّ → "untouche… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences طمس tms To obliterate the features of a thing: it remains, but loses what made it recognizable or useful. Uses 1. نَّطْمِسَ, ٱطْمِسْ عَلَىٰ → "to obliterate" : to obliterate the… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences طمع tm' To reach toward a good one desires without being sure of it: to covet, to long for. Uses 1. طَمِعَ, يَطْمَعُ → "to covet" : to desire what one does not have, often with n… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences طمم tmm To cover over by overflowing all that precedes. The text makes it a name of the Hour: what submerges everything else. Uses 1. ٱلطَّآمَّةُ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ → "the great Catacly… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences طمن tmn To settle and find rest after agitation: the core that is calmed, the body that ceases to fear, the city that lives without alarm. Uses 1. ٱطْمَأَنَّ, يَطْمَئِنُّ → "to b… Read the entry → Sealed31 occurrences طهر thr To remove a defilement: to purify a person, a place or a thing, or to keep oneself clean. Uses 1. طَهَّرَ, يُطَهِّرُ, طَهِّرْ → "to purify" : to take away what defiles: f… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences طود twd The peak, the height raised in a single thrust: the text makes it the measure of the split sea. Uses 1. كَٱلطَّوْدِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ → "like a mighty peak" : each side of the s… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences طور twr The stage, the limit of a state that one crosses to pass to the next; and, under the same word, the Mount: the mountain of the engagement of the sons of Israel and of the… Read the entry → Sealed129 occurrences طوع tw' To lend oneself freely to what is asked: to a command, and that is to obey; to a good no one requires, and that is to do it willingly; to an action one has the means for,… Read the entry → Sealed41 occurrences طوف twf To go to a place or to people, to move from one to another, without the text ever stating the shape of the course; hence what comes together or passes over someone: a gro… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences طوق twq To encircle with one's strength: the capacity that embraces a burden, or the ring that grips the one who has held back. Uses 1. يُطِيقُونَهُ → "to have the capacity for i… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences طول twl To extend beyond a measure: the duration that lengthens, height, the breadth of means. Uses 1. طَالَ, تَطَاوَلَ → "to grow long", "to seem too long" : time that runs past… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences طوى twa To fold up what was spread out, closing it over itself; and, under the same word, Tuwa, the name of the sanctified valley where Moussa was called. Uses 1. نَطْوِى, طَىّ →… Read the entry → Sealed50 occurrences طيب tyb The good: what is given and received of itself, without resistance. The thing one takes gladly and that goes down without trouble, the land that gives of itself, the wind… Read the entry → Sealed29 occurrences طير tyr To fly: the bird, what flies; and the omen, once read in the flight of birds, become the lot that clings to someone. Uses 1. طَيْر, طَٰٓئِر, يَطِيرُ → "bird", "the birds"… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences طين tyn Clay: the moist, workable matter from which the human being is drawn. Uses 1. طِين → "clay" : the matter from which God creates the human being. «هُوَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكُم م… Read the entry →