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Sealed16 occurrences فئد f'd The Conscience: the inner perception that understands, distinct from the core that decides and from the Self that is the whole person. The text places it beside hearing a… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences فئى f'a A battalion: people held together facing another: the one confronted, the one joined, or the one that brings help. Uses 1. فِئَة, فِئَتَيْنِ, ٱلْفِئَتَانِ (face to face)… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فتء ft' Not to cease: a verb used with negation, even unwritten, to say that an act or a state continues without interruption. Uses 1. تَفْتَؤُا۟ → "not to cease to" : after an o… Read the entry → Sealed38 occurrences فتح fth To open: to end a closure and give passage, whether a gate, a favour granted, or a situation closed between two parties. Uses 1. فَتَحَ, يَفْتَحُ, فُتِحَتْ → "to open" :… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences فتر ftr The slackening of what should continue: a break in a sequence, or, under negation, a penalty that does not weaken. Uses 1. فَتْرَة → "a break" : the hollow time when the… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فتق ftq To open what was welded: to part in two a mass of one piece. Uses 1. فَتَقَ → "to split apart" : to separate what formed a single block; the verb answers رَتْق, the joine… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences فتل ftl To twist a fibre: the فَتِيل is the thin thread lodged in the groove of the date stone, a measure of the tiniest. Uses 1. فَتِيلًا → "a hair's breadth" : the thinnest sha… Read the entry → Sealed60 occurrences فتن ftn To put to the trial: to set someone before what reveals what he truly holds, at the risk of his being turned away from it. Uses 1. فِتْنَة → "trial" : what tries: a good,… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences فتو ftw Youth, the age of fresh vigour; and, in the verb, the fresh opinion brought to a question: to enlighten, or to ask to be enlightened. Uses 1. فَتًى, فِتْيَة, فِتْيَان → "… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences فجج fjj The passage opened through what blocks the way: a wide road between the heights, which lets one advance and find one's bearings. Uses 1. فِجَاج → "passes" : the ways open… Read the entry → Sealed24 occurrences فجر fjr To pierce a limit and gush out of it: water piercing the ground, dawn piercing the night, transgression opening a breach in the limit of the Self. Uses 1. فَجَّرَ, ٱنفَجَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فجو fjw An open space set apart, in the hollow of a larger place. Uses 1. فَجْوَة → "a recess" : the hollow of the Cave where the young people stay, beyond the sun's reach. «وَهُ… Read the entry → Sealed24 occurrences فحش fhsh What goes beyond the measure of decency so far as to shock: the act whose excess is flagrant. Uses 1. فَٰحِشَة → "an indecency", "the indecency" : a specific act, one tha… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences فخر fkhr Two uses, which the text does not bring together: to boast, to make much before others of what one has; and pottery, the fired clay that rings. Uses 1. فَخُور → "boaster"… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences فدى fda To give one thing in place of another so as to free what is held. The gesture is the same when a sacrifice frees a son, when one offers goods to free oneself, when food s… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences فرت frt Water that quenches: the water that slakes thirst, facing salt water. Uses 1. فُرَات → "fresh" : the quality of the water one drinks; in the pair of the two seas, it foll… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فرث frth The content of the entrails, food already digested: from between it and blood comes forth a refined milk. Uses 1. فَرْث → "chyme" : the digested matter, distinct from blo… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences فرج frj The opening, the cleft: in the body, the intimate part one preserves; in the sky, the crack that is not there, and that will open on the Day. Uses 1. فَرْج, فُرُوج (the b… Read the entry → Sealed22 occurrences فرح frh To rejoice: the joy that takes hold of someone for what he receives or holds. The text praises it when it bears on God's favour, and blames it when it turns into self-sat… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences فرد frd To be alone, without companion or support: the state of one who comes to God with nothing of what he relied on. Uses 1. فَرْد → "alone" : the solitude of the Day, or that… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences فرر frr To flee: to tear oneself away in haste from what one fears, or to rush toward what saves. Uses 1. فَرَّ, يَفِرُّ, فِرَار → "to flee", "flight" : to leave in haste what ca… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences فرش frsh To spread out flat: what is laid out to bear or to rest on, and what spreads over an expanse. Uses 1. فِرَٰش, فَرَشَ → "a bed", "to spread out" : the earth laid out benea… Read the entry → Sealed18 occurrences فرض frd To fix a share or a charge, and make it obligatory: what is settled and binding. Uses 1. فَرَضَ → "to make an obligation", "to make obligatory", "to fix" : God makes the… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences فرط frt To miss the right measure of what is due: short of it, to let pass what had to be kept (to neglect); beyond it, to rush forward past the limit (to rush, excess). Uses 1.… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فرع fr' The branches: the part of the tree that rises and spreads above its root. Uses 1. فَرْعُهَا → "its branches" : the top of the tree, set over against its root. «أَصْلُهَا… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences فرغ frgh To free a container of what it holds: to pour its content onto something else, or to find oneself free, vacant, made available. Uses 1. أَفْرِغْ, أُفْرِغْ → "to pour" : t… Read the entry → Sealed72 occurrences فرق frq To separate: to make distinct parts of what was one. The same gesture splits the sea, divides a people, distinguishes the true from the false, and parts two beings. Uses… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فره frh Expert skill: the mastery of those who carve houses in the rock, and the assurance it gives them. Uses 1. فَٰرِهِين → "skilled and expert" : the accomplished art of a dif… Read the entry → Sealed60 occurrences فرى fra To invent: to fabricate out of nothing a baseless statement, most often to ascribe it to God; the same root qualifies the "monstrous thing", what one believes fabricated… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences فزز fzz To shake so as to dislodge: to shake someone in his place until he is driven out of it. Uses 1. ٱسْتَفْزِزْ, يَسْتَفِزُّ → "to shake", "to shake out of" : form X: to prov… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences فزع fz' Fright: the sudden seizing before what bursts in. Uses 1. فَزِعَ → "to be seized with fright", "to take fright" : to be seized at once, at the blast of the Horn or before… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences فسح fsh To make room: to widen the space for another; the room given up in the assembly calls for the room God grants. Uses 1. تَفَسَّحُوا۟, فَٱفْسَحُوا۟, يَفْسَحِ → "to make roo… Read the entry → Sealed50 occurrences فسد fsd To undo the sound state of a thing: the corruption one sows on the earth, the opposite of making sound. Uses 1. أَفْسَدَ, يُفْسِدُ → "to sow corruption", "to corrupt" : t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فسر fsr To make clear: the explanation that uncovers the meaning and answers what is objected. Uses 1. تَفْسِيرًا → "explanation" : clarity brought against an example put forward… Read the entry → Sealed54 occurrences فسق fsq To go out of the set limit, as the fruit comes out of its rind: to overstep a command, a pact, a rule. Uses 1. فَسَقَ, يَفْسُقُونَ → "to overstep" : to go out of the comm… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences فشل fshl To let go before the adversary: to lose momentum at the moment one had to hold. Uses 1. فَشِلَ, تَفْشَلَا, تَفْشَلُوا۟ → "to give ground" : the courage of a group that gi… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فصح fsh To speak clearly: a tongue that renders distinctly what it says. Uses 1. أَفْصَحُ → "to have a clearer tongue" : the comparative: clarity of speech weighed against anothe… Read the entry → Sealed43 occurrences فصل fsl To separate clearly what was joined or mixed: to set off by detaching oneself, to wean, to detail a whole into distinct parts, to separate on the Day. Uses 1. فَصَّلَ, يُ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فصم fsm The breaking of a bond: the rupture of what holds in one piece. Uses 1. ٱنفِصَام → "to break" : rupture, denied for the surest handhold. «بِٱلْعُرْوَةِ ٱلْوُثْقَىٰ لَا ٱن… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فضح fdh To expose someone to dishonour before others: the injury that falls back on the one who was to protect. Uses 1. تَفْضَحُونِ → "to dishonor" : Lut fears that the injury do… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences فضض fdd What separates into distinct parts: silver, a metal worked into pieces and ornaments, and the gathering that disperses. Uses 1. فِضَّة → "silver" : the metal, named with… Read the entry → Sealed104 occurrences فضل fdl What exceeds what is due: the surplus given, favour; and, in the verb, to set one above another by giving him more. Uses 1. فَضْل → "favor" : the gift that exceeds what i… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فضو fdw To reach as far as the other: the intimate union of spouses, when nothing separates them any longer. Uses 1. أَفْضَى إِلَى → "to be intimately united with" : the union ac… Read the entry → Sealed20 occurrences فطر ftr To cleave so as to bring forth: the fissure, and the first creation that makes appear what was not. Uses 1. فَطَرَ → "to originate" : the first act by which God brings th… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فظظ fzz Surliness of manner: the coarseness of behaviour that repels and scatters. Uses 1. فَظّ → "surly" : the manner that drives others away, paired with hardness of core. «وَل… Read the entry → Sealed108 occurrences فعل f'l To do: the act performed, in the most general sense. The verb often takes up an act already named, and, said of God, an acting without limit. Uses 1. فَعَلَ, يَفْعَلُ → "… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences فقد fqd To notice the absence of what should be there, and to set out in search of it. Uses 1. تَفْقِدُونَ, نَفْقِدُ → "to be missing" : the lack noticed by those who no longer h… Read the entry → Sealed14 occurrences فقر fqr The lack of what supports: the poverty of one whose means do not suffice, and, at bottom, the need of every creature before God. Uses 1. فَقِير, ٱلْفُقَرَآء → "poor", "th… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فقع fq' The brightness of a pure colour: a vivid hue, unmixed. Uses 1. فَاقِعٌ → "vivid" : qualifies the colour already named and brings it to its brightness. «إِنَّهَا بَقَرَةٌۭ… Read the entry → Sealed20 occurrences فقه fqh To understand by penetrating the meaning: to grasp what a discourse or a sign means, beyond what is heard. Uses 1. يَفْقَهُونَ, نَفْقَهُ, تَفْقَهُونَ → "to understand" :… Read the entry → Sealed18 occurrences فكر fkr To reflect: to examine in thought what one has before one, to draw from it what it shows. Uses 1. تَفَكَّرَ, يَتَفَكَّرُونَ → "to reflect" : the examination that signs an… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences فكك fkk To undo what was bound: to untie a bond, or to come apart from it. Uses 1. فَكُّ → "to free" : to undo the bond that holds a person under a weight. «فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ» — "It… Read the entry → Sealed19 occurrences فكه fkh The savour that gladdens: savoury fruit, and the delight of the one who enjoys it. Uses 1. فَٰكِهَة, فَوَٰكِه → "savoury fruit" : fruit tasted for its savour, on earth an… Read the entry → Sealed40 occurrences فلح flh To succeed: to reach the end one was seeking, at the close of a course of conduct. Uses 1. ٱلْمُفْلِحُونَ → "those who succeed" : the closing formula "those are the ones… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences فلق flq To split what was closed to bring forth what it held: the seed, the night, the sea. Uses 1. فَالِقُ → "He who splits open" : God, who opens the seed and the kernel, and t… Read the entry → Sealed25 occurrences فلك flk What advances following its course: the vessel on the water, the orbit of the heavenly bodies in the sky. Uses 1. ٱلْفُلْك → "the vessel", "the vessels" : Nuh's vessel, t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فلن fln So-and-so: the person pointed to without being named. Uses 1. فُلَانًا → "so-and-so" : the companion whom regret points to without naming him. «لَيْتَنِى لَمْ أَتَّخِذْ ف… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فند fnd To charge with dotage: to judge that age has led someone's judgment astray. Uses 1. تُفَنِّدُونِ → "to think one a dotard" : the reproach addressed to an old man who asse… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فنن fnn Branching: the boughs that multiply on the tree. Uses 1. أَفْنَان → "with abundant branches" : the two gardens whose trees bear many boughs. «ذَوَاتَآ أَفْنَانٍۢ» — "with… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فنى fna To cease to be: the condition of what passes, before what endures. Uses 1. فَانٍ → "perishing" : everything upon the earth, bound to pass. «كُلُّ مَنْ عَلَيْهَا فَانٍۢ» —… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فهم fhm To understand: to grasp the right point of a matter; in form II, to give the understanding of it. Uses 1. فَفَهَّمْنَٰهَا → "to grant the understanding" : form II: to mak… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences فوت fwt To pass out of reach: what goes away before one holds it and is not recovered; negated, the impossibility of getting away; in form VI, the gap between parts that do not m… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences فوج fwj The crowd that advances with one motion: a set of people carried together toward one place. Uses 1. فَوْج → "a crowd" : a group gathered, pushed or cast with a single mot… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences فور fwr To rise all at once, boiling: the gush that overflows, and the very instant it bursts out. Uses 1. فَارَ, تَفُورُ → "to boil over", "to boil" : the oven from which water… Read the entry → Sealed29 occurrences فوز fwz To triumph: to reach the outcome, drawn out of peril and in possession of what was promised; the word almost always states the final outcome. Uses 1. ٱلْفَوْز → "the triu… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فوض fwd To hand over one's affair entirely to another, for him to dispose of it. Uses 1. أُفَوِّضُ → "to commit" : form II: to give up an affair in favour of the one to whom one… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فوم fwm A cultivated plant, named among the produce of the earth; the translation renders it "garlic". Uses 1. فُومِهَا → "its garlic" : one of the five products of the earth ask… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences فوه fwh The mouth: the place from which speech comes out, which the text sets against what the core holds. Uses 1. أَفْوَاه → "mouths" : uttered speech, almost always set against… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences فىء fa' To return after having strayed: to return from an oath, to return to God's command; the shadow that returns as it turns; and what God restores to His messenger. Uses 1. ف… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences فيض fyd To overflow: a flow that passes its measure, tears, water, a crowd or words. Uses 1. فَاضَ, تَفِيضُ → "to overflow" : eyes overflowing with tears. «تَرَىٰٓ أَعْيُنَهُمْ ت… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences فيل fyl Judgment that fails: a mind that no longer guides itself, not the animal. Uses 1. ٱلْفِيل → "unreason" : the only use, which names a people by what defines it; أَصْحَٰب i… Read the entry →