Root Dictionary

Sealed2 occurrences أعراف a'raf A raised post from which one recognizes: the word, formed on عرف (to recognize), names the place by the act performed there, identifying each one by his marks. Uses 1. ٱل… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ألت alt To cut a share from what is due: to take away, however little, from what belongs to someone. Uses 1. يَلِتْكُم, أَلَتْنَٰهُم → "curtail" : to cut something from a person'… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ابب abb The grass of pastures: the vegetation grazed by cattle, distinct from what man eats. Uses 1. أَبًّا → "pasture" : the last term in the list of plants God brings out of th… Read the entry → Sealed28 occurrences ابد abd A duration that knows no end: "forever" when it prolongs a state, "never" when it prolongs a refusal. Uses 1. أَبَدًا after خَٰلِدِينَ, مَٰكِثِينَ → "forever" : closes ev… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ابريق abryq The ewer: the spouted vessel that pours the drink, distinct from the goblet and the cup that receive it. Uses 1. أَبَارِيق → "ewers" : the serving vessel, named between t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ابق abq To run away, slipping out of the charge one has received. Uses 1. أَبَقَ → "to flee" : the flight of an envoy, who leaves his mission for a vessel. «إِذْ أَبَقَ إِلَى ٱلْ… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences ابل abl Mass: that which has a great body. The word does not name a species, it describes it by its bulk: the massive animals of the livestock, and massive birds. Uses 1. ٱلْإِبِ… Read the entry → Sealed117 occurrences ابو abw The father: the one from whom one proceeds. In the singular, the direct father; in the plural, the line of those who came before, from whom a way of doing has been receiv… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences ابى aba To refuse by an act of will: to stand against what is asked or offered, when one could accept it. Uses 1. أَبَىٰ, يَأْبَىٰ (+ أَن) → "to refuse" : to refuse a command, a… Read the entry → Sealed553 occurrences اتى ata To make arrive: to come oneself, to come with a thing or to an act, or to make a thing reach someone, that is, to give. Uses 1. أَتَىٰ, يَأْتِى → "to come", "to arrive",… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences اثث athth The material goods one displays: household furnishings or visible affluence, always for a time. Uses 1. أَثَاثًا → "furnishings", "possessions" : the furnishings drawn fr… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences اثر athr What remains behind a passage, along a line of succession: the trace one leaves or follows. The derived verb places a thing in front on that line (to prefer), or passes i… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences اثل athl The tamarisk: a shrub of arid lands, growing where nothing better will come. Uses 1. أَثْل → "tamarisk" : one of the three plants that replace the lost gardens. «ذَوَاتَى… Read the entry → Sealed48 occurrences اثم athm The wrong that does harm and weighs: a concrete fault, which one acquires, which one bears, and which can be measured against a profit. Uses 1. إِثْم → "transgression" :… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences اجج ajj The bitterness of water that cannot be drunk, always set against sweet water. Uses 1. أُجَاج → "bitter" : the quality of salt water, opposed to sweet, fresh water. «وَهَٰ… Read the entry → Sealed108 occurrences اجر ajr What comes back in return for an act or a service: the due one receives for what one has done, and which one expects from the one on whom it is incumbent. Uses 1. أَجْر,… Read the entry → Sealed56 occurrences اجل ajl The term: the point fixed in advance where a span of time ends, which can be neither advanced nor delayed. Uses 1. أَجَل, أَجَلٌۭ مُّسَمًّى → "term", "an appointed term"… Read the entry → Sealed85 occurrences احد ahd The one taken alone, with no second: "no one" in negation, "one of" within a group, and, said of God, the singularity that enters no series. Uses 1. أَحَد after a negatio… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences احقاف ahqaf Place name: the Ahqaf, where the brother of the Aad warned his people. The word locates the warning, without saying anything else about the place. Uses 1. ٱلْأَحْقَاف → "… Read the entry → Sealed273 occurrences اخذ akhdh To seize: to take hold of a thing and keep it, either for oneself or against someone. Uses 1. أَخَذَ, خُذْ, يَأْخُذُ → "to take" : to take in hand what is given, a good,… Read the entry → Sealed250 occurrences اخر akhr To come after. Hence the other (the one that comes next), the last, the life that follows, and, in the verb, to put or place oneself after: to defer, to remain behind. Us… Read the entry → Sealed96 occurrences اخو akhw The brother, the sister: the one bound to another by a common origin, that of blood, of a people, of allegiance or of conduct. Uses 1. أَخ, إِخْوَة (blood) → "brother", "… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ادد add The enormity: an utterance so grave that creation itself is close to breaking from it. Uses 1. إِدًّا → "an enormity" : qualifies the thing put forth, and at once measure… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences ادى ada To hand over to its rightful owner what one holds on his behalf: to restore a deposit, discharge a due, give back people held. Uses 1. أَدَّىٰ, يُؤَدِّى (+ إِلَىٰ) → "to… Read the entry → Sealed102 occurrences اذن adhn The ear, and what passes through it: to lend an ear, hence to grant permission; and, in the other direction, to make heard, to inform, to proclaim. Uses 1. أُذُن, ءَاذَان… Read the entry → Sealed24 occurrences اذى adha To trouble: to cause a real but minor wrong, a burden that weighs without destroying. Uses 1. أَذًى → "nuisance" : the burden itself: an ailment of the body, rain, a woun… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ارب arb Need seeking its object: the use one expects from a thing, or the desire one bears toward someone. Uses 1. مَـَٔارِبُ → "uses" : the varied needs that one and the same ob… Read the entry → Sealed35 occurrences ارث arth To receive what another leaves behind him: goods, a land, a Scripture, a Garden. God, who remains when all passes, is its last heir. Uses 1. وَرِثَ, يَرِثُ → "to inherit… Read the entry → Sealed461 occurrences ارض ard The earth: the ground where one lives, settles and moves about; joined to the heavens, it states the whole of what is created. Uses 1. ٱلْأَرْض → "the earth" : the inhabi… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences ارك ark The adorned couch: the seat of honoured rest, where one reclines in the Garden and from where one looks on. Uses 1. عَلَى ٱلْأَرَآئِكِ with مُتَّكِـِٔين → "reclining on a… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ارم arm Proper noun. The text joins it to the Aad and defines it by its work: the city, or the people, of the lofty pillars, without equal in the lands. The translation writes "I… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ازر azr To strengthen what already exists: a contribution that props up a strength or a growth already begun, without creating it. Uses 1. أَزْر → "resolve" : the inner strength… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ازز azz To inflame relentlessly: to make seethe, like a pot on the fire; a repeated agitation that leaves no rest to the one it targets. Uses 1. تَؤُزُّهُمْ أَزًّۭا → "to inflame… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences ازف azf To be very near: the pressing approach of a dreaded event, no longer at a distance. Uses 1. ٱلْءَازِفَة → "the Imminent" : the name of the Hour, designated by its nearnes… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences اسر asr To bind and hold: the bond that holds a captive, and the one that holds the parts of a body together. Uses 1. أُسَٰرَىٰ, أَسِير, تَأْسِرُونَ → "captives", "captive", "to… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences اسس ass To lay the base of a building: the first act on which the soundness of all that rises on it depends. Uses 1. أَسَّسَ, أُسِّسَ → "to found" : to set a construction on a su… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences اسف asf Bitterness: painful regret mixed with indignation, felt oneself or provoked in another. Uses 1. أَسِفًا → "bitter" : the state of Moussa returning to his people, always j… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences اسن asn To stagnate: the spoiling of water that stands still and loses its first quality. Uses 1. غَيْرِ ءَاسِنٍۢ → "that does not stagnate" : said of a water of the Garden, thro… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences اسو asw To attune oneself emotionally to another: to lament over him when one takes his fate to heart, to take him as an example when one models oneself on him. Uses 1. تَأْسَ, ء… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences اشر ashr The pretension of one who raises himself above his rank; the word qualifies the liar who claims for himself what is not his. Uses 1. كَذَّابٌ أَشِرٌ, ٱلْكَذَّابُ ٱلْأَشِر… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences اصر asr The binding burden: a charge or commitment that weighs and hinders, which one bears, takes upon oneself, or is relieved of. Uses 1. إِصْرًۭا → "a burden" : the charge one… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences اصل asl Two senses the text does not connect: evening, the bound of the day always paired with morning; and the root, the foundation on which a thing stands. Uses 1. أَصِيل, ٱلْء… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences افف aff Interjection of rejection: a brief breath marking that one can no longer bear a person or a thing, without asserting anything else. Uses 1. أُفٍّ → "fie!" : the exclamati… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences افق afq The horizon: the line where sight stops, and the field it embraces. Uses 1. ٱلْءَافَاق → "the horizons" : the world seen outside, set beside what one carries within. «سَن… Read the entry → Sealed27 occurrences افك afk To turn over: to put truth upside down, and, for the one who suffers it, to be turned away from it. Uses 1. إِفْك → "distortion" : truth turned over, presented as though… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences افل afl To disappear after having appeared: the setting of a heavenly body, a withdrawal that returns and can be foreseen. Uses 1. أَفَلَ, أَفَلَتْ → "to disappear" : the setting… Read the entry → Sealed109 occurrences اكل akl To take a food into oneself until it disappears: to eat what is given, or to devour what belongs to another. Uses 1. أَكَلَ, يَأْكُلُ, كُلُوا → "to eat" : to feed on what… Read the entry → Sealed34 occurrences الاء ala' The blessings of God, taken one by one: what one is called to remember, and which it is blameworthy to deny. Uses 1. ءَالَآء → "the blessings" : the gifts of God, always… Read the entry → Sealed22 occurrences الف alf To put together: to unite what was separated, hostile cores as well as scattered clouds. The same root gives the number thousand, which the text uses without linking it t… Read the entry → Sealed88 occurrences الك alk To carry what another sends and to carry it out within his domain: the word, which touches أ ل ك (to transmit a message) and م ل ك (the domain where a sovereignty is exer… Read the entry → Sealed75 occurrences الم alm Pain, what makes one suffer. The text almost always uses it to qualify the punishment, and once for the shared suffering of battle. Uses 1. عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ → "a painful p… Read the entry → Sealed2963 occurrences اله alh The deity: what one takes as supreme authority, whom one obeys and invokes. With the article, ٱللَّه is the Deity par excellence: "God". Uses 1. ٱللَّه → "God" : the defi… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences الو alw To hold back, or to swear to hold back, from a due gesture: rejoining one's wife, giving to one's relatives; negated, to hold back in nothing. Uses 1. يُؤْلُونَ, يَأْتَلِ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences الياسين alyasyn Proper noun, a form of the name of Ilyas used in the salutation that closes his account. The text does not specify further how the two forms relate; the translation keeps… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences امت amt An unevenness of relief, hollow or rise; the text uses it only to deny it, and to describe a surface entirely levelled. Uses 1. أَمْت → "rise" : the unevenness that will… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences امد amd The extended interval between two points, in time or in space: a span whose existence is certain, but whose measure is not given to man. Uses 1. أَمَد → "span" : the inte… Read the entry → Sealed249 occurrences امر amr The command: the word that commands, and the thing it sets in motion, the matter. Hence the agency that urges without respite, the matter beyond measure, and the consulta… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences امل aml Hope: the mind reaching toward what it does not yet have. The word passes no judgment: hope is worth what its object is worth. Uses 1. ٱلْأَمَل → "hope" : the expectation… Read the entry → Sealed119 occurrences امم amm What one heads toward and is attached to. The root thus names the mother from whom one proceeds, the community gathered upon a way, the way itself, the guide one follows,… Read the entry → Sealed879 occurrences امن amn The firmness one can lean on: the security it gives, the trust one places in it, the deposit one hands over to it. To believe is to commit that trust. Uses 1. ءَامَنَ بِ,… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences امو amw The woman placed under obedience in a household, whom the text always names over against another: the woman who associates, or her male counterpart. Uses 1. أَمَة → "an o… Read the entry → Sealed30 occurrences انث anth The feminine, the female: one of the two terms of the couple, human or animal, almost always named facing the male. Uses 1. ٱلذَّكَر … ٱلْأُنثَىٰ → "the male", "the femal… Read the entry → Sealed338 occurrences انس ans Perceptible familiarity: the human as the being of direct bond, and the act of perceiving a thing as near and reassuring. Uses 1. ٱلْإِنسَٰن → "the human being" : the hum… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences انف anf What is at the front: the nose, the most forward part of the face, and, in time, the moment that has just gone before. Uses 1. ٱلْأَنف → "the nose" : the organ named amon… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences انم anm The whole of the creatures that people the earth and feed on it, not restricted to humans alone. Uses 1. ٱلْأَنَام → "the creatures" : the recipients of the earth and of… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences انى ana To reach its point: the moment when a time, a heat or a cooking comes to its term. Uses 1. ءَانَآءَ ٱلَّيْلِ → "the hours of the night" : the marked points of night-time,… Read the entry → Sealed155 occurrences اهل ahl Belonging to a whole to which one pertains: a household, a place, a Scripture. Applied to a thing or a quality, the word names the one to whom it rightfully returns. Uses… Read the entry → Sealed17 occurrences اوب awb To return, and to return again and again: return become habit, the place to which one returns at the end, and the voice that returns as an echo. Uses 1. أَوَّاب, ٱلْأَوَّ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences اود awd To weigh to the point of wearying: the charge whose upkeep costs effort. Uses 1. يَـُٔودُهُۥ → "to cost effort" : stated through negation: keeping the heavens and the ear… Read the entry → Sealed135 occurrences اول awl The point of origin and the return to it: the first, from which everything starts, and the تَأْوِيل, what a thing returns to and ends in, whether the meaning of a text or… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences اولى awla "Possessors of": the form designates a human group by a faculty of perception or understanding, the one that allows a lesson to be drawn from a sign. Uses 1. لِأُو۟لِى ٱل… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences اوه awh The repeated sigh: the inner lament of one who turns ceaselessly toward his Guardian. The text makes it a quality of Ibrahim alone. Uses 1. أَوَّٰه → "full of sighs" : on… Read the entry → Sealed36 occurrences اوى awa To make one's way to a shelter that receives, or to receive another there: to take refuge, to give refuge; and the place that receives at the end, the refuge. Uses 1. أَو… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences ايد ayd The strength that supports: in the verb, to fortify someone, to give him what he needs to hold firm; in the noun, strength itself, the means to act. Uses 1. أَيَّدَ, يُؤَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ايم aym The unmarried: the person, man or woman, who has no spouse. Uses 1. ٱلْأَيَٰمَىٰ → "the unmarried" : men and women without a spouse, whom the community is called to marry… Read the entry → Sealed628 occurrences ايى aya Two families the text does not connect. ءَايَة, the sign: any mark that makes one see beyond itself, a phenomenon of creation, recited speech, an object or a person; and… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences بئر b'r The waterhole: water dug into the ground, which keeps an inhabited place alive. Its single use shows it abandoned, in the midst of an annihilated city. Uses 1. بِئْر → "w… Read the entry → Sealed73 occurrences بئس b's The force that strikes hard: the blow dealt or suffered, the violence of men, the rigor of God, the adversity that falls; and, by the same harshness, the exclamation that… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences بابل babl Proper noun of a place. The text makes it the place where something was sent down upon two kings, Harut and Marut; the translation writes "Babel". Uses 1. بَابِل → "Babel… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences بتر btr To cut off what should have continued: to deprive of a sequel. Uses 1. ٱلْأَبْتَر → "the Cut-Off One" : the one whose continuation is severed. «إِنَّ شَانِئَكَ هُوَ ٱلْأَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences بتك btk To split with a cut what was whole: the gesture that marks a body and alters its form. Uses 1. فَلَيُبَتِّكُنَّ → "to slit" : to cut into the ears of cattle, on the Diver… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences بتل btl To detach oneself from everything else in order to give oneself over to one alone. Uses 1. تَبَتَّلْ, تَبْتِيلًا → "to give oneself over", "fully" : to give oneself witho… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences بثث bthth To spread by scattering: to bring forth from an origin a multitude that disperses over an expanse. Uses 1. بَثَّ, يَبُثُّ → "to spread", "to scatter" : the gesture of God… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences بجس bjs To well forth by piercing: water opening a passage of itself through a closed surface. Uses 1. ٱنۢبَجَسَ → "to well forth" : the reflexive form: the water comes forth of… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences بحث bhth To search the earth by scratching it: to seek by digging the ground. Uses 1. يَبْحَثُ → "to scratch (the earth)" : the gesture of the raven digging the ground before the… Read the entry → Sealed42 occurrences بحر bhr The sea: the great expanse of water, set over against the land; the domain where man goes only when carried, and where he holds only by God. Uses 1. ٱلْبَحْر, ٱلْبِحَار,… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences بخس bkhs To cut back a share that is due: to give someone less than what belongs to him. Uses 1. يَبْخَسْ, تَبْخَسُوا۟ → "to diminish", "to shortchange" : to reduce what is owed,… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences بخع bkh' To consume oneself: to wear oneself out to the end, with grief, before the refusal of others. Uses 1. بَٰخِعٌ نَّفْسَكَ → "consume yourself" : the participle, followed by… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences بخل bkhl To keep for oneself what one has received, refusing to give of it: stinginess, which ends by turning against the stingy one. Uses 1. بَخِلَ, يَبْخَلُ → "to be stingy" : t… Read the entry → Sealed15 occurrences بدء bd' To begin: to make the first gesture of a sequence. The text uses it above all for creation, which God begins and then remakes. Uses 1. يَبْدَؤُا۟, يُبْدِئُ, بَدَأَ (creat… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences بدر bdr The root carries two uses that the text does not link: the haste that runs ahead of a due time, and Badr, the name of a place. Uses 1. بِدَارًا → "hastily" : the haste of… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences بدع bd' To bring forth what has no precedent: an origin without a prior model. Uses 1. بَدِيعُ → "Unprecedented Creator" : God, who made the heavens and the earth with no model b… Read the entry → Sealed44 occurrences بدل bdl To put one thing in the place of another: to change, to replace, to exchange. Uses 1. بَدَّلَ, يُبَدِّلُ, تُبَدَّلُ → "to change", "to replace" : to make one thing become… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences بدن bdn The body in its mass of flesh: the body of a man kept as a sign, or the heavy-bodied beasts led to the offering. Uses 1. بَدَن → "body" : the body of Fir'awn, alone saved… Read the entry → Sealed31 occurrences بدو bdw To appear: what comes before us, at first sight; what was hidden passes into sight, and the causative form, أَبْدَىٰ, makes it appear. The same word names the open countr… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences بذر bdhr To scatter without discernment, like seed thrown at random: to squander. Uses 1. تُبَذِّرْ, تَبْذِيرًا → "to squander wastefully" : the verb and its verbal noun, joined f… Read the entry → Sealed31 occurrences برء br' To clear off, to come out quit: what is settled owes nothing more and is bound to nothing more. Hence to be quit of someone or of what he does, the quittance that declare… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences برج brj To rise up and be seen from afar: the tower that dominates, the constellation that stands out in the sky, and the person who stages herself before the eyes of others. Use… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences برح brh To leave the place or the state one keeps. Always negated in the text: not to leave, not to cease, until a term is reached. Uses 1. لَنْ أَبْرَحَ + object → "not to leave… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences برد brd Cold: the coolness that soothes, and the water that cold hardens. Uses 1. بَرْدًا → "coolness" : the respite that puts out the burning. «يَٰنَارُ كُونِى بَرْدًۭا وَسَلَٰم… Read the entry → Sealed32 occurrences برر brr Virtue: the good done toward others, in deeds rather than in forms. The same spelling also names the land, ٱلْبَرّ, set over against the sea, with no link of meaning to v… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences برز brz To come out into the open: to leave a shelter or a retreat and stand in full view. Uses 1. بَرَزُوا۟ (out of a place) → "to come out to face", "to leave" : to leave a she… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences برزخ brzkh What stands between two realities in contact and prevents them from mixing or passing into one another. Uses 1. بَرْزَخ → "barrier" : the separation kept between two wate… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences برص brs Leprosy: the affliction of the skin that Issa heals, with God's permission. Uses 1. ٱلْأَبْرَص → "the leper" : always named after the born-blind, in the list of signs giv… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences برق brq Lightning: a brief and violent flash that seizes the sight; the root also names the sight blinded with glare, and brocade, a fabric whose sheen recalls it. Uses 1. ٱلْبَر… Read the entry → Sealed32 occurrences برك brk The good that abides and spreads: what God blesses overflows its place to benefit others. Uses 1. تَبَارَكَ → "Blessed is" : the formula that opens the praise of God, of… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences برم brm To clinch a decision firmly, as one tightens a knot. Uses 1. أَبْرَمَ, مُبْرِمُون → "to clinch (a plan)" : the decision men tie, and the one God clinches in return. «أَمْ… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences بره brh What establishes a thing so that it prevails: the demonstration one brings or receives. Uses 1. هَاتُوا۟ بُرْهَٰنَكُمْ, لَا بُرْهَٰنَ لَهُۥ → "bring your demonstration" :… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences بزغ bzgh To rise, said of a heavenly body: to appear above the horizon and begin its visible course. Uses 1. بَازِغًا, بَازِغَةً → "rising" : the moon, then the sun, seen rising b… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences بسر bsr To harden and darken the face under the effect of a refusal or a threat. Uses 1. بَسَرَ → "to scowl" : the face that closes, a step in the refusal of the message. «ثُمَّ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences بسس bss To reduce a mass to particles that scatter. Uses 1. بُسَّتِ, بَسًّا → "to crush to powder" : the verb and its verbal noun express a complete crumbling. «وَبُسَّتِ ٱلْجِبَ… Read the entry → Sealed25 occurrences بسط bst To extend, to spread out: to open into a surface what was closed or tightened — a hand, a provision, a carpet, a cloud. Uses 1. بَسَطَ يَدَهُ, بَاسِط, مَبْسُوطَتَانِ → "t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences بسق bsq To rise high and straight: the word qualifies the palm trees, "tall". Uses 1. بَاسِقَات → "tall" : the palm trees standing high, bearing their layered spathes. «وَٱلنَّخْ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences بسل bsl To be delivered over to the consequence of one's deeds, with no one to stand between. Uses 1. تُبْسَلَ, أُبْسِلُوا۟ → "to be delivered" : to be abandoned to what one has… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences بسم bsm To smile: to let the pleasure received from a word or a sight show on the face, without breaking into laughter. Uses 1. تَبَسَّمَ → "to smile" : form V tells of the smile… Read the entry → Sealed123 occurrences بشر bshr The skin, the visible surface: the human being seen in his flesh, and the news that shows on the face of the one who receives it. Uses 1. بَشَر → "human" : the human bein… Read the entry → Sealed148 occurrences بصر bsr Clear sight: to see with sharpness, by the organ as by discernment. Said of God, the word says that nothing of what people do escapes His sight. Uses 1. بَصِير (God) → "A… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences بصل bsl The onion, a garden plant that the earth grows. Uses 1. بَصَلِهَا → "its onions" : the last item of the foodstuffs demanded of Moussa. «وَعَدَسِهَا وَبَصَلِهَا» — "its le… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences بضع bd' A small portion taken from a whole: a small number left unspecified, or the share of goods one carries for exchange. Uses 1. بِضْع → "some", "a few" : a number of years l… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences بطء bt' To slow down on purpose: to stay behind while others move forward. Uses 1. لَيُبَطِّئَنَّ → "to lag behind deliberately" : the willed slowness of one who keeps back. «وَإ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences بطر btr To grow wanton from abundance: the excessive assurance that ease gives, to the point of forgetting where it comes from. Uses 1. بَطَر → "wantonness" : the displayed assur… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences بطش btsh To grip with force so as to strike: the violent grip, of the hand of man or of God. Uses 1. بَطَشَ, يَبْطِشُ → "to grip", "to strike" : the hand that grips or comes down… Read the entry → Sealed36 occurrences بطل btl What has no foundation and collapses before the truth: falsehood, and what is vain. Uses 1. ٱلْبَاطِل → "falsehood" : what stands against the truth without foundation. «ك… Read the entry → Sealed25 occurrences بطن btn The interior hidden beneath a surface: the belly, and all that is within, as opposed to what appears. Uses 1. بَطْن, بُطُون → "belly", "bellies" : the organ: one eats int… Read the entry → Sealed67 occurrences بعث b'th To raise up: to set in motion, to make rise toward action or toward life what was at rest. Uses 1. بَعَثَ, يَبْعَثُ (an envoy) → "to raise up" : to make an informant, a m… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences بعثر b'thr To turn a thing over from top to bottom so as to bring out what it held. Uses 1. بُعْثِرَ, بُعْثِرَتْ → "to be overturned" : the graves turned over on the Day, giving up… Read the entry → Sealed235 occurrences بعد b'd To be beyond, separated by an interval: in time, what comes after; in space, what is far. Uses 1. بَعْدَ, مِنۢ بَعْدِ, بَعْدُ → "after" : what follows a fact; often, what… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences بعر b'r The pack camel: the text names it as the measure of what an animal carries. Uses 1. بَعِير → "camel" : always in a measure, "a camel's measure" or "a camel's freight": th… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences بعل b'l The husband, the man to whom the woman is united; the same word serves as a proper name, Ba'l, for the deity invoked by the people of Ilyas. The text does not link the tw… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences بغت bght To come without a sign announcing it, and to seize the one who does not expect it. Uses 1. بَغْتَةً → "unexpectedly" : always said of the Hour or of the punishment, which… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences بغض bghd Hatred: the inner and lasting rejection of the other, which can overflow into speech. Uses 1. ٱلْبَغْضَآء → "hatred" : nearly always joined to enmity, ٱلْعَدَاوَة, in one… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences بغل bghl The mule, an animal for riding. Uses 1. ٱلْبِغَال → "mules" : named between horses and donkeys, for riding and for adornment. «وَٱلْخَيْلَ وَٱلْبِغَالَ وَٱلْحَمِيرَ لِتَر… Read the entry → Sealed96 occurrences بغى bgha To reach toward what one wants: to seek. The same impulse, when it goes beyond the limit of its right, becomes iniquity. Uses 1. ٱبْتَغَىٰ, يَبْتَغُونَ, ٱبْتِغَآءَ → "to… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences بقر bqr The bovine: the cow, taken as an animal of the herd. Uses 1. بَقَرَة → "a cow" : the animal of the account in sura 2, which the people of Moussa were to slaughter. «إِنَّ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences بقع bq' A delimited spot, a point one can locate. Its single use names the blessed place where Moussa was called. Uses 1. ٱلْبُقْعَة → "the place" : the exact spot of the call, d… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences بقل bql Herbs: the garden plants that the earth grows and that man cultivates for his food. Uses 1. بَقْلِهَا → "its herbs" : the first term of the list of the earth's produce th… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences بقى bqa To remain, to endure: what is left beyond the term, when the rest passes away. Uses 1. أَبْقَىٰ (comparative) → "more lasting" : in the formula "better and more lasting",… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences بكة bkh The place of the throng: the word, read from ب ك ك, to press together in a crowd, qualifies the site of the first House as the place where the greatest number converges.… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences بكر bkr The beginning: early morning, and what has not yet been touched. Uses 1. بُكْرَة, ٱلْإِبْكَار → "morning" : the start of the day, joined to the evening: the two bounds of… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences بكم bkm Not to be able to speak: muteness, of the body, or of one who gives back no word to the message received. Uses 1. بُكْم, ٱلْبُكْم → "mute", "the mute" : in the triad with… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences بكى bka To weep: to show through tears the weight one gives to an event — mourning, humility, or loss. Uses 1. يَبْكُونَ, تَبْكُونَ → "to weep" : the tears of mourning, feigned o… Read the entry → Sealed19 occurrences بلد bld A stretch of earth taken as a territory: the land, inhabited, crossed, or given life by water. Uses 1. بَلَد, بَلْدَة → "land" : a territory, secure or dead, good or bad.… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences بلس bls To fall into a mute despair when every recourse has vanished. Uses 1. مُبْلِسُون → "in despair" : the state of those whom the punishment seizes unawares, or whom nothing… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences بلع bl' To swallow: to make disappear within oneself what was outside. Uses 1. ٱبْلَعِى → "swallow" : the command given to the earth to take back the water of the flood. «يَٰٓأَر… Read the entry → Sealed77 occurrences بلغ blgh To reach: to arrive at the end of a course, in space, in time or in speech. Transmission is speech that reaches those for whom it is meant. Uses 1. بَلَغَ, يَبْلُغُ → "to… Read the entry → Sealed38 occurrences بلو blw To test: to submit a being to what brings out its true worth, through evil as through good. Uses 1. بَلَا, يَبْلُو, ٱبْتَلَىٰ → "to test" : God's gesture upon beings: thr… Read the entry → Sealed22 occurrences بلى bla Particle of reply that overturns a negation: it affirms what the question or the claim denied. Uses 1. بَلَىٰ (reply) → "yes" : the reply to a negative question: it says… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences بنن bnn The extremity: the farthest point of a whole — in the body, the phalanges; in a group, those who occupy its tip. Uses 1. بَنَانَهُۥ → "his phalanges" : the ends of the fi… Read the entry → Sealed161 occurrences بنو bnw Filiation: to be issued from someone, as son or daughter, or as a people bearing the name of an ancestor. Uses 1. ٱبْن, أَبْنَآء, بَنُونَ → "son", "sons" : the son of a f… Read the entry → Sealed22 occurrences بنى bna To build: to raise a structure that holds. The text applies it to the sky, to the works of men and to a rank of fighters. Uses 1. بَنَىٰ, بَنَيْنَا, ٱبْنُوا۟, مَبْنِيَّة… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences بهت bht Stupefaction: the false accusation, of a gravity that leaves no reply, and the state of one whose speech comes apart. Uses 1. بُهْتَان → "slander" : the false accusation… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences بهج bhj Splendor: the beauty that gladdens the eye. The text always says it of the vegetation that the water sent down makes grow. Uses 1. بَهِيج → "splendid" : the quality of ea… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences بهل bhl To implore fervently, together, so that God may decide between two parties. Uses 1. نَبْتَهِلْ → "to pray fervently" : the common entreaty that hands the dispute over to… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences بهم bhm The livestock beasts: the herd animals, named by a fixed expression. Uses 1. بَهِيمَةُ ٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ → "the livestock beasts" : always the same expression, for permitted l… Read the entry → Sealed17 occurrences بوء bw' To return so as to stand in a place one takes on: to return burdened with a fault or an anger, or to settle in a dwelling. Uses 1. بَآءَ بِـ, تَبُوٓأَ بِـ → "to incur", "… Read the entry → Sealed27 occurrences بوب bwb The door: the opening by which one enters a place, and by which what it holds opens upon someone. Uses 1. بَاب → "gate", "door" : the entrance of a city, of a house, or o… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences بور bwr To waste away beyond return, like land that no longer yields: the barren loss that follows a wrong choice. Uses 1. بُورًا → "blighted" : said of a people that let what it… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences بول bwl The state of a being: its overall condition, which one questions, or which God makes sound. Uses 1. مَا بَالُ → "what of" : the question that asks the state of an affair… Read the entry → Sealed73 occurrences بيت byt The house: the place where one lives and returns for the night; with the article, the House, a sanctuary established for mankind. The verbal forms say what is done by nig… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences بيد byd To perish: to cease to be, to the point of vanishing. Uses 1. تَبِيدَ → "to perish" : the end of a good its owner believed lasting. «مَآ أَظُنُّ أَن تَبِيدَ هَٰذِهِۦٓ أَب… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences بيض byd Whiteness: the light color, said of a thread, a hand, a face, a gaze. Its value comes from the context: a sign of favor, or a mark of pain. Uses 1. أَبْيَض, بَيْضَآء, بِي… Read the entry → Sealed15 occurrences بيع by' To hand over a good for a counterpart, in an exchange concluded between two parties; allegiance is an exchange of this kind. Uses 1. ٱلْبَيْع, بَيْع → "selling" : market… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences تبب tbb To perish, to go to one's ruin: a pronounced annihilation, not a mere failure, which strikes the work raised against the message and, through it, the one who made it. Use… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences تبت tbt The coffer: a closed container in which one places what must be kept intact while it is carried from one place to another. Uses 1. ٱلتَّابُوت → "the coffer" : the contain… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences تبر tbr To devastate utterly: to break what is struck until nothing of it is left, whether a practice, a conquered possession or a whole people. Uses 1. تَبَّرَ, تَتْبِير → "to d… Read the entry → Sealed174 occurrences تبع tb' To come after another, taking his direction: to walk behind him, to conform to his word, to pursue him or to come after him. The verb does not judge; its worth lies wholl… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences تجر tjr To trade: to exchange in order to gain. The text weighs with the same scale of gain and loss the exchanges of the market and the choice of the human being before God. Use… Read the entry → Sealed22 occurrences ترب trb The stock from which a thing is drawn and whose nature it keeps: the earth from which the human is created, the bosom from which the being comes forth, what is of the sam… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences ترف trf Affluence: ease given in abundance, in which one settles to the point of making it one's rule and rejecting the message. Uses 1. أَتْرَفْنَا, أُتْرِفُوا۟, أُتْرِفْتُمْ →… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ترق trq The collarbones: the top of the chest, below the throat, the last point of the body that life reaches when it leaves it. Uses 1. ٱلتَّرَاقِى → "the collarbones" : the thr… Read the entry → Sealed43 occurrences ترك trk To leave behind: to cease holding a thing, a person or a conviction, and to leave it where it is. Uses 1. تَرَكَ (inheritance) → "to leave" : what the dead leave behind t… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences تسع ts' The number nine. It always counts a closed, verifiable set: signs, persons, years, animals. Uses 1. تِسْع, تِسْعَة → "nine" : the number alone, before what it counts. «وَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences تعس t's Downfall: a fall pronounced as a sentence, not a vague wish, and bound to the disowning it sanctions. Uses 1. فَتَعْسًا لَّهُمْ → "downfall be upon them" : a formula of i… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences تفث tfth The unkempt state of one in sacralization: a state that lasts, and to which one puts an end to return to the ordinary. Uses 1. تَفَث → "unkempt state" : what one sheds at… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences تقن tqn To adjust a work until it is without flaw: to perfect it in its execution. Uses 1. أَتْقَنَ → "to perfect" : said of God, for His work extended to all things. «صُنْعَ ٱلل… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences تلكم tlkm Distal demonstrative, feminine singular, joined to the plural mark of address (ـكُمْ): it points a thing out to a whole group. Uses 1. تِلْكُمُ → "This is" : the proclama… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences تلكما tlkma Demonstrative of distance in the feminine (تِلْكَ), fused with the mark of an address to two (ـكُمَا): the thing is shown from afar, to two hearers together. Uses 1. تِلْ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences تلل tll To lay a body down on the ground, in a single gesture that sets it in position. Uses 1. تَلَّهُۥ → "to lay down" : Ibrahim's gesture over his son, at the moment of the tr… Read the entry → Sealed63 occurrences تلو tlw To come next, without interval: a heavenly body or a witness that comes in the wake, a speech made heard word after word, in the order in which it was given. Uses 1. تَلَ… Read the entry → Sealed22 occurrences تمم tmm To carry a thing on until nothing is missing: to complete it to its term, with nothing left over. Uses 1. أَتَمَّ, أَتِمُّوا۟, يُتِمَّ → "to complete" : to carry an act,… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences تنور tnwr The oven, the hearth of the house; the text speaks of it only at the moment it begins to boil over, the signal of the flood. Uses 1. ٱلتَّنُّور → "the oven" : the domesti… Read the entry → Sealed87 occurrences توب twb To turn back: to leave what kept one away and return to God; and, said of God, to turn toward the one who turns back. The same verb says both movements. Uses 1. تَابَ, يَ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences تور twr One time, in a series of times: the return of the same movement. Uses 1. تَارَةً أُخْرَىٰ → "another time" : always with أُخْرَىٰ, to say that a movement happens again. «… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences تين tyn The fig tree, in its proper sense: the nourishing tree, named only once, at the head of an oath. Uses 1. ٱلتِّين → "the fig" : first of the guarantors of an oath, named w… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences تيه tyh To go to and fro without arriving: to remain lost on the earth without ever reaching the place one was meant to enter. Uses 1. يَتِيهُونَ → "wandering" : the punishment o… Read the entry → Sealed18 occurrences ثبت thbt To be firm, without wavering or slipping; in the causative form, to make firm what was about to give way: the step, the Conscience, the Self. Uses 1. ثَبَّتَ, يُثَبِّتُ →… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences ثبر thbr Ruin called for aloud: the recourse of one who, at the end of the trial, expects nothing but his own end. Uses 1. دَعَا ثُبُورًا, ثُبُور → "to call for one's ruin", "ruin… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ثبط thbt To curb one who was about to set out: to hold him back, from outside, so that he does not advance toward the action. Uses 1. ثَبَّطَ → "to curb" : to hold back those who… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ثبى thba The group that sets out apart from the others: the troop mobilized in detachments, as opposed to all setting out together. Uses 1. ثُبَات → "in detachments" : a fractione… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ثجج thjj To pour forth in pressing, unbroken streams: water falling in abundance, without pause. Uses 1. ثَجَّاج → "abundant" : describes the water sent down from those that press… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ثخن thkhn To fully subdue by force: to reduce the adversary until he can no longer fight; it is the condition set before any capture. Uses 1. يُثْخِنَ, أَثْخَنتُمُوهُمْ → "to fully… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ثرب thrb The reproach addressed to one who has committed a fault; its only use denies it, for to renounce reproach is to forgive. The same letters also give a place name, Yathrib,… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ثرى thra The moist earth beneath the surface: the lowest of what is, where the list of what belongs to God comes to an end. Uses 1. ٱلثَّرَىٰ → "the moist soil" : the layer of dam… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ثعب th'b The serpent: the form taken by Moussa's staff, thrown down before Fir'awn. Uses 1. ثُعْبَانٌ مُّبِينٌ → "a manifest serpent" : the staff turned into a serpent, before the… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ثقب thqb To pierce: said of a light that crosses the darkness with force. Uses 1. ثَاقِب → "of piercing brightness", "piercing" : the brightness of the star that pierces the night… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences ثقف thqf To surprise an adversary where he is: to have him within reach, at the moment of acting against him. Uses 1. ثَقِفَ, يَثْقَفُ → "to surprise" : to have the adversary with… Read the entry → Sealed28 occurrences ثقل thql Weight: what weighs on and burdens whoever carries it, be it matter, trial or deed. The text makes it a measure, and nothing that weighs is without consequence. Uses 1. م… Read the entry → Sealed32 occurrences ثلث thlth The number three, and the third derived from it: an exact count, in sharing as in reckoning. Uses 1. ثَلَٰث, ثَلَٰثَة → "three" : the cardinal number: days, nights, month… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences ثلل thll A large group detached from a mass: a multitude, which the text always measures against another group. Uses 1. ثُلَّة → "multitude" : a great number taken from a generati… Read the entry → Sealed24 occurrences ثمر thmr The fruit: what a growth produces. The word names the fruit of plants; in the account of the two gardens, the reading followed makes it the wealth that an estate has made… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences ثمم thmm Particle of place: "there", the place pointed to at a distance. Its only use sets that place wherever one turns. Uses 1. ثَمَّ → "there" : adverb of place; preceded by فَ… Read the entry → Sealed19 occurrences ثمن thmn Two families that the text does not link. ثَمَن, the price: what a thing is given up for, almost always a derisory gain obtained in exchange for the signs or the pact of… Read the entry → Sealed29 occurrences ثنى thna Two, and what goes by two: counting in pairs, folding a thing upon itself, setting a part aside from the rest. Uses 1. ٱثْنَان, ٱثْنَتَان → "two" : the number; also in "t… Read the entry → Sealed28 occurrences ثوب thwb Return: what comes back to its starting point, the place one returns to, and the requital that comes back to the one who acted. The root also names clothes. Uses 1. ثَوَا… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences ثور thwr To stir up what lay at rest: earth turned over, clouds driven by the wind, dust raised by a charge. Uses 1. تُثِيرُ, أَثَارَ (the earth) → "to stir up the earth" : to tur… Read the entry → Sealed14 occurrences ثوى thwa To sojourn: to stay in a place and remain there. مَثْوَى is the place of that sojourn, whether offered to a guest or reserved for the end. Uses 1. مَثْوَى (the guest) → "… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ثيب thyb The woman who has already known marriage: the state that stands opposite that of the virgin. Uses 1. ثَيِّبَٰت → "previously married" : wives who have already been marrie… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences جئر j'r To raise a cry of distress, loud and unrestrained, toward the one from whom help is awaited. Uses 1. تَجْـَٔرُونَ, يَجْـَٔرُونَ, لَا تَجْـَٔرُوا۟ → "to cry out in distres… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences جبب jbb The well dug into the ground: a deep pit where what is thrown in vanishes from sight, without being out of reach. Uses 1. ٱلْجُبّ → "the well" : always in غَيَٰبَتِ ٱلْجُ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جبت jbt What is set up as an object of belief without any foundation: the vain entity to which one gives one's faith. The translation renders "the Idol". Uses 1. ٱلْجِبْت → "the… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences جبر jbr To impose one's will by force, without limit or restraint: in man, tyranny; in God alone, the power nothing can resist. Uses 1. جَبَّار (man) → "tyrant", "tyrannical" : o… Read the entry → Sealed41 occurrences جبل jbl The raised and compact mass: the mountain; by extension, the numerous crowd, a mass of human beings. Uses 1. جَبَل, ٱلْجِبَال → "the mountain", "the mountains" : the most… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جبن jbn The side of the forehead, the temple: the part of the face that touches the ground when someone is laid on his side. Uses 1. ٱلْجَبِين → "the temple" : the side of the fa… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جبه jbh The forehead: the upper, visible part of the face. Uses 1. جِبَاه → "foreheads" : named with the sides and the backs, as the surface of the body where the punishment is i… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences جبى jba To draw and bring together toward oneself. In the form ٱجْتَبَىٰ, it is God's act of taking for Himself whom He wills: "to elect"; the same gesture makes fruits throng to… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جثث jthth To tear a thing out together with what holds it in the ground, so that nothing remains to fix it. Uses 1. ٱجْتُثَّتْ → "uprooted" : the tree removed from the ground with… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences جثم jthm To collapse in place and stay pinned there: the body fallen to the ground, which does not rise again. Uses 1. جَٰثِمِينَ → "lying, still" : the state of the peoples seize… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences جثو jthw To be on one's knees under constraint: the posture of those who are brought before judgment and left there. Uses 1. جِثِيًّا → "on their knees" : those who are brought ar… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences جحد jhd To deny what one knows to be true: a stubborn refusal, held against one's own certainty. Uses 1. جَحَدَ بِ, يَجْحَدُ بِ → "to stubbornly reject" : the verb always bears o… Read the entry → Sealed26 occurrences جحم jhm Fire that blazes hard: the Blaze, name of the Fire of the end, called by its ardour. Uses 1. ٱلْجَحِيم → "the Blaze" : the definite noun, the most frequent: one is cast i… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences جدث jdth The sepulchre: the place where the dead rest, named only as the point from which they come out when they are called. Uses 1. ٱلْأَجْدَاث → "the sepulchres" : the place fr… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences جدد jdd What stands out sharply from its surroundings: the new, which nothing has yet worn; the streak of colour in rock; and, said of God, the magnificence that sets Him apart.… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences جدر jdr The wall, a raised structure that separates and protects; hence, in the comparative, what falls to someone as his due: merit. Uses 1. جِدَار, جُدُر → "wall", "walls" : th… Read the entry → Sealed29 occurrences جدل jdl To argue insistently: to uphold a cause by speech against another. The word passes no judgment; the cause defended and the manner judge the argument. Uses 1. جَٰدَلَ, يُج… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences جذذ jdhdh To cut clean, to reduce to pieces: what is made into debris, or, under negation, what nothing comes to interrupt. Uses 1. جُذَٰذًا → "debris" : what remains of a thing br… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences جذع jdh' The trunk of the palm tree: the part that bears the tree, against which one leans, which one shakes, or to which one binds. Uses 1. جِذْع, جُذُوع → "trunk" : always the t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جذو jdhw The piece of fire one carries off: an ember taken from the hearth, which keeps its heat. Uses 1. جَذْوَةٍۢ مِّنَ ٱلنَّارِ → "a burning ember" : the fire one can bring bac… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences جرح jrh To gash, to leave a mark that remains: the wound in the flesh, the seizure of prey, the act inscribed to its author's account. Uses 1. ٱلْجُرُوح → "wounds" : the gash mad… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences جرد jrd Locusts: a multitude that swoops down or spreads out in a single movement. Uses 1. ٱلْجَرَاد → "the locusts" : one of the plagues sent upon the people of Fir'awn, among d… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جرر jrr To draw toward oneself a body one is holding, in a continuous movement. Uses 1. يَجُرُّ → "to drag" : the grip prolonged into traction: one seizes, then draws toward ones… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences جرز jrz The layer from which everything has been cut away: an arid outcrop, with nothing covering it. Uses 1. جُرُز → "arid" : land shorn of what adorned it, to which only water… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جرع jr' To swallow in small sips, with difficulty, what one cannot drink in one draught. Uses 1. يَتَجَرَّعُهُۥ → "to sip little by little" : to drink with effort, sip after sip,… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جرف jrf The bank that water has eaten away from below and that no longer bears: a ravine whose edge is ready to give way. Uses 1. جُرُف → "a ravine" : in شَفَا جُرُفٍ هَارٍ, "the… Read the entry → Sealed66 occurrences جرم jrm To cut cleanly, to break a link. One who has broken the link finds himself severed from it; and in the formula لَا جَرَمَ, nothing cuts what follows from what precedes: "… Read the entry → Sealed64 occurrences جرى jra To go with continuous movement toward an end: water that flows, the vessel that sails, the star or the wind that runs. Uses 1. تَجْرِى (water) → "to flow" : the rivers be… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences جزء jz' A part detached from a whole: the fraction taken from a divisible set. Uses 1. جُزْءًۭا, جُزْءٌۭ → "a part" : the fraction of a set, distributed over several places. «ثُم… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences جزع jz' To lose one's footing before evil: to panic, where patience would hold. Uses 1. جَزِعَ, جَزُوع → "to panic" : the reaction of one whom ill touches and who no longer holds… Read the entry → Sealed118 occurrences جزى jza To render the equivalent of what was done: to recompense, for good as for evil; construed with عَن, to stand for another, which no one will be able to do on the last day.… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences جسد jsd The body taken in its matter alone: a physical form, considered without what animates it. Uses 1. جَسَدًۭا → "a body", "bodies" : the fabricated calf that lows without li… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جسس jss To search out in secret what the other keeps hidden: to spy. Uses 1. تَجَسَّسَ → "to spy" : to pry into another's life; the only use is a prohibition. «وَلَا تَجَسَّسُوا۟… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences جسم jsm The body in its volume and stature, as the eye takes it in. Uses 1. ٱلْجِسْم → "constitution" : stature, given together with knowledge to the one God has chosen. «وَزَادَ… Read the entry → Sealed346 occurrences جعل j'l To make a thing be such, or be there: to institute a state, a function or a place by a willed act. Uses 1. جَعَلَ + two complements → "to make … a …" : to give a thing a… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جفء jf' What a flood casts off because nothing holds it: refuse, which neither serves nor remains. Uses 1. جُفَآءً → "as scum" : the fate of the froth, driven off while what is u… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جفن jfn Large vessels: basins vast enough to be compared to reservoirs. Uses 1. جِفَانٍۢ → "basins" : one of the works made for Sulayman. «وَجِفَانٍۢ كَٱلْجَوَابِ» — "basins like… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جفو jfw No longer to cling to what one was resting on: the body that comes away from its bed and keeps away from it. Uses 1. تَتَجَافَىٰ → "to draw away" : the sides that leave t… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences جلب jlb To gather and drive toward a single point: forces launched against someone, or the garment drawn over oneself. Uses 1. أَجْلِبْ → "to muster" : to launch against a target… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences جلد jld The skin: the surface of the body that receives what reaches it; the verb names the blow struck upon it. Uses 1. جِلْد, جُلُود → "skins" : the surface of the body, which… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جلس jls To sit; as a noun of place, the gathering: the place where people sit together. Uses 1. ٱلْمَجَٰلِس → "gatherings" : the places where people sit together, and where each… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences جلل jll Majesty: the greatness that remains when all else passes, an attribute of God alone. Uses 1. ٱلْجَلَٰل → "majesty" : always in ذُو ٱلْجَلَٰلِ وَٱلْإِكْرَامِ, "holder of m… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences جلو jlw To clear: to bring into full light what was covered, or to empty a place of those who occupy it. Uses 1. تَجَلَّىٰ → "to unveil oneself" : to appear oneself: God before t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جمح jmh To bolt: to dash off unbridled, like a mount escaping every hand. Uses 1. يَجْمَحُونَ → "bolting" : the surge of flight, which no longer chooses its shelter. «لَّوَلَّوْا… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جمد jmd To be frozen, without movement; in its only use, a stillness that is only apparent. Uses 1. جَامِدَة → "frozen" : what seems motionless to the eye, while it moves. «تَحْس… Read the entry → Sealed128 occurrences جمع jm' To bring into a single whole what was scattered: people, goods, forces, a decision. Uses 1. جَمَعَ, يَجْمَعُ, جَامِع → "to bring together" : to bring beings together in a… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جمعة jm'h The reunion: name of the day on which people come together at the call of the Contact. Uses 1. يَوْمِ ٱلْجُمُعَةِ → "the day of reunion" : a recurring day, defined by the… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences جمل jml What is carried through to the end and held in one piece: the gracious manner of an act, the whole given at once. The root also names the camel. Uses 1. جَمِيل → "graciou… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جمم jmm Abundance without restraint: what overflows every measure. Uses 1. جَمًّۭا → "immoderate" : qualifies the love of goods that closes a list of failings. «وَتُحِبُّونَ ٱلْم… Read the entry → Sealed33 occurrences جنب jnb The side: the flank of a body or of a place; hence, to put oneself to the side of what one refuses: to avoid, to keep at a distance. Uses 1. جَنۢب, جُنُوب → "side", "flan… Read the entry → Sealed34 occurrences جنح jnh The side, and what leans to one side: the wing that flanks the body, the inclination toward a party, and the blame, the charge that would make a fault lean upon someone.… Read the entry → Sealed29 occurrences جند jnd The army: a gathered and ordered force, which belongs to someone and acts for him. Uses 1. جُند → "an army" : a force taken as a whole: God's, a people's, or what men bec… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences جنف jnf To lean off the straight line: a willed leaning that makes a judgment or an act deviate. Uses 1. جَنَف → "a partiality" : the leaning of a testator that skews each one's… Read the entry → Sealed201 occurrences جنن jnn To cover until withdrawn from sight: the night that closes in, the garden covered by its vegetation, the Occulted whom the human eye does not perceive, the covered reason… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences جنى jna To pick: the ripe fruit, ready to be taken by hand. Uses 1. جَنِيًّا → "ripe" : fruit good to be picked at once. «تُسَٰقِطْ عَلَيْكِ رُطَبًۭا جَنِيًّۭا» — "it will let fr… Read the entry → Sealed41 occurrences جهد jhd To carry one's effort to the end of one's strength: to strive, and, as a noun, the whole strength one commits. Uses 1. جَٰهَدَ, يُجَٰهِدُ, ٱلْمُجَٰهِدُون → "to strive", "… Read the entry → Sealed16 occurrences جهر jhr To bring from the hidden into the perceived: by the voice, to say aloud; by sight, to show oneself openly. Uses 1. جَهَرَ بِٱلْقَوْل → "to say aloud" : to make audible a… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences جهز jhz To prepare someone for the road: to make ready for him what he needs for the journey. Uses 1. جَهَّزَ … بِجَهَاز → "to outfit with their supplies" : the verb and its noun… Read the entry → Sealed24 occurrences جهل jhl To act without knowing: ignorance that shows in conduct, the opposite of assured knowledge. Uses 1. ٱلْجَٰهِلُونَ, ٱلْجَاهِل → "the ignorant" : those who judge or act wit… Read the entry → Sealed77 occurrences جهنم jhnm Proper name of the place of punishment at the end. The text treats it as a place, and the translation keeps the name as it is: "Jahannam". Uses 1. جَهَنَّم → "Jahannam" :… Read the entry → Sealed43 occurrences جوب jwb To pass right through: to pierce rock, or to carry a word across to the one who called. Uses 1. أَجَابَ, يُجِيبُ, ٱسْتَجَابَ → "to answer", "to respond" : to answer a cal… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جود jwd Excellence of breed: horses of quality, distinguished among all. Uses 1. ٱلْجِيَاد → "well-bred" : the horses of quality displayed to Sulayman in the evening. «ٱلصَّٰفِنَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جودى jwda Proper noun of a high place: the one where Nuh's vessel comes to rest when the water withdraws. The translation writes the name alone: "al-Judi". Uses 1. ٱلْجُودِىّ → "al… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences جور jwr To stand beside: the neighbor, the one taken to one's side to be given asylum, and, away from the straight way, what veers off to the side. Uses 1. ٱلْجَار, مُّتَجَٰوِرَٰ… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences جوز jwz To pass from one side of an expanse to the other and leave it behind: to traverse a water or a place; and, said of God, to pass over a fault. Uses 1. جَاوَزَ → "to traver… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جوس jws To range through a place in every direction to search it, leaving no corner untouched. Uses 1. جَاسُوا۟ خِلَٰلَ → "to range through in every direction" : to penetrate int… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences جوع jw' Hunger: the lack of food, a trial when it strikes, a blessing when it is removed. Uses 1. ٱلْجُوع, جُوع → "hunger" : almost always joined to fear, as trial, as sanction,… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جوف jwf The hollow inside of the body: the single space it encloses. Uses 1. جَوْف → "breast" : the inside of a man, where only one core can be held. «مَّا جَعَلَ ٱللَّهُ لِرَجُل… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جوو jww The open space between the earth and the sky, where nothing bears what stays in it. Uses 1. جَوّ → "the space" : the place where birds fly, without visible support. «مُسَ… Read the entry → Sealed278 occurrences جىء ja' To come bringing: an arrival laden with what it brings — a messenger, a proof, the truth, a term. Uses 1. جَآءَ + subject → "to come", "to arrive" : the coming of a messe… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences جيب jyb The opening of the garment at the chest: the neckline, where the hand can enter and which one covers. Uses 1. جَيْب, جُيُوب → "neckline" : the usable opening of the garme… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences جيد jyd The neck as the place of adornment: where one wears the necklace. Uses 1. جِيدِهَا → "her throat" : the neck one adorns, which here receives a rope of fiber. «فِى جِيدِهَ… Read the entry → Sealed95 occurrences حبب hbb To hold to someone or something with a strong attachment: this is love. The grain, from the same root, is what holds gathered within itself what will grow. Uses 1. أَحَبَ… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences حبر hbr The rabbi: the master versed in Scripture, charged with preserving it and bearing witness to it. The same letters also say, in the passive verb, to be filled with joy, wi… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حبس hbs To hold in suspense: to keep, for a time, a person from leaving or a thing from happening, until a set term. Uses 1. تَحْبِسُونَ, يَحْبِسُ → "to hold in suspense" : to ke… Read the entry → Sealed16 occurrences حبط hbt To collapse from within: what seemed to have substance loses all weight and no longer counts. Said of the works of one who disowns, denies or associates. Uses 1. حَبِطَ,… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حبك hbk To weave in crossing lines: a close-knit weft, said of the sky and its interwoven paths. Uses 1. ٱلْحُبُك → "interwoven paths" : the crossing trajectories that make the s… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences حبل hbl The rope: what links by holding. The text shows it literally, a rope of fiber that one throws or ties, and figuratively, a rope stretched from God and from people, to whi… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حتم htm The ruling that is not revoked: what is set as bound to be fulfilled, without exception. Uses 1. حَتْمًا مَّقْضِيًّا → "an irrevocable sentence" : what the Guardian has s… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حثث hthth To press on without respite: a movement that dogs what it pursues and leaves it no rest. Uses 1. حَثِيثًا → "relentlessly" : said of the night pursuing the day. «يَطْلُبُ… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences حجب hjb What stands between two parties and cuts off sight as well as speech: the veil. Uses 1. حِجَاب (between two parties) → "a veil" : what separates two places or two persons… Read the entry → Sealed33 occurrences حجج hjj To head deliberately toward a goal: toward the House, it is the Hajj; against an opponent, it is the argument set against him and the dispute; the cycle that brings the s… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences حجر hjr What stops by its firmness: stone, and the boundary one does not cross, set by decree, by an enclosure or by oneself. Uses 1. حِجَارَة, ٱلْحَجَر → "stone(s)", "the rock"… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حجز hjz To stand between two things to keep them apart: the partition that keeps two waters from mingling, or the man who stands as a partition to defend another. Uses 1. حَاجِز… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حدب hdb What rises and swells on the ground: the height, from which one comes down. Uses 1. حَدَب → "height" : any rise of the ground, from which a flood spreads. «وَهُم مِّن كُل… Read the entry → Sealed36 occurrences حدث hdth What comes about and is reported: speech that passes from one person to another, the event that happens, what one gives rise to. Uses 1. حَدِيث → "discourse" : speech tha… Read the entry → Sealed25 occurrences حدد hdd To mark a clear line that separates: the limit one does not cross, iron that cuts, and, in the verb, to stand on the other side of the line facing someone, to set oneself… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences حدق hdq The enclosed garden: a planted and surrounded expanse, tended for what it yields. Uses 1. حَدَآئِق → "enclosed gardens" : always in the plural, within an enumeration of p… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences حذر hdhr To be on one's guard before a danger one sees coming: the vigilance that takes its precautions, and not fear. Uses 1. حَذِرَ, ٱحْذَرْ, يَحْذَرُ → "to beware", "to be wary… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences حرب hrb Armed confrontation: war. The root also names the oratory, a place of retreat for the service of God, which keeps nothing of the warlike sense. Uses 1. حَرْب → "war" : th… Read the entry → Sealed14 occurrences حرث hrth To till: to open the earth for cultivation; the tilth also names the field so worked. Uses 1. ٱلْحَرْث → "the tilth" : the worked field, a good that one lists, keeps or l… Read the entry → Sealed15 occurrences حرج hrj The narrowness that tightens: the discomfort that weighs on the chest or on conduct. The text names it mostly to say that it imposes none. Uses 1. حَرَج → "discomfort" :… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حرد hrd Stubborn resolve: setting out sure of oneself, leaving no room for doubt or for others. Uses 1. حَرْد → "headstrong" : the state of those who set out decided to do what t… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences حرر hrr Independence: depending on no one, being released from what holds. Hence the independent one, the person whose independence is restored when a debt bound him, the child m… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حرس hrs To keep watch over a place so as to forbid access to it: the posted watch that stays awake. Uses 1. حَرَسًا → "sentinels" : the watch of the sky, with the projectiles tha… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences حرص hrs To hold strongly to a thing and cling to it: to life, to fairness, to the good or the guidance of others, without that attachment being enough to obtain it. Uses 1. حَرَص… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences حرض hrd To push to the extreme: to incite others to full commitment, or to be oneself worn down to the limit. Uses 1. حَرَّضَ → "to incite" : to push others to full effort, here… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences حرف hrf To carry a thing out of its place, to the side: to displace a word from its context, to move aside in battle, to obey askew. Uses 1. حَرَّفَ, يُحَرِّفُونَ → "to displace… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences حرق hrq To destroy by fire: to give a thing over to the flames, or the fire itself as it consumes beyond return. Uses 1. حَرَّقَ, ٱحْتَرَقَ → "to burn" : to give a person or an o… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حرك hrk To set an organ in motion; the text uses it only for the tongue that stirs to hasten the word received. Uses 1. لَا تُحَرِّكْ → "do not move" : to stir the tongue before… Read the entry → Sealed83 occurrences حرم hrm To set a limit. The text rules it by what it does to its object: it guards it against harm, it keeps it from use, or it leaves someone short of it. Uses 1. ٱلْحَرَام, حُر… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حرى hra To seek with care, aiming true: the rectitude one sets as one's aim. Uses 1. تَحَرَّىٰ → "to seek" : to aim deliberately at something and apply oneself to it. «فَأُو۟لَٰٓ… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences حرير hryr Silk: the precious fabric with which the inhabitants of the Garden are clothed. Uses 1. حَرِير → "silk" : the garment of the Garden, given as recompense. «وَلِبَاسُهُمْ ف… Read the entry → Sealed20 occurrences حزب hzb The party: a group that ranges itself under an allegiance and is named by it; in the plural, blocs each welded by what it holds to and set against another: parties divide… Read the entry → Sealed42 occurrences حزن hzn Grief: the pain that weighs on one who has lost, or who sees loss coming. Uses 1. حَزِنَ, يَحْزَنُ, لَا تَحْزَنْ → "to grieve" : to feel the pain; almost always negated o… Read the entry → Sealed109 occurrences حسب hsb To count: to make the count of a thing, to measure its quantity, to hold it as true, or to hold it as sufficient. Uses 1. حَسِبَ, يَحْسَبُ → "to think", "to take for" : t… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences حسد hsd To envy: to want for oneself the good another has received, to the point of wishing that he lose it. Uses 1. حَسَدَ, يَحْسُدُ → "to envy" : to hold against someone what h… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences حسر hsr To be worn out to the point of dejection: the desolation that seizes one before an irreversible loss, and strength or sight emptied by effort; negated, the word states an… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences حسس hss Sensation: to grasp a presence through the senses, or to deprive of it. Uses 1. أَحَسَّ, تُحِسُّ → "to perceive" : to grasp through the senses a presence or a danger. «فَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حسم hsm To cut clean and without remainder: what follows on without interruption until everything is cut off. Uses 1. حُسُومًا → "in succession" : days that follow one another wi… Read the entry → Sealed194 occurrences حسن hsn The beauty of what is well done: to do good, and what is beautiful because it is accomplished as it should be. Uses 1. أَحْسَنَ, ٱلْمُحْسِنُونَ → "to do good", "those who… Read the entry → Sealed43 occurrences حشر hshr To gather: to make what was scattered converge toward a single point, whether beings, an army or a crowd. Uses 1. حَشَرَ, يَحْشُرُ, نَحْشُرُ → "to gather" : God gathers b… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences حصب hsb What is hurled or thrown in mass: the stones a storm drives, or what is thrown into the fire to feed it. Uses 1. حَاصِب → "a storm of stones" : the wind laden with stones… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حصحص hshs To come out at once, in full brightness: the truth that shows itself entire, with nothing left covering it. Uses 1. حَصْحَصَ → "to break out" : the moment when truth show… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences حصد hsd To harvest: to cut in a single stroke what has grown; the harvest of grain, and the image of a land, a city or a people mown down entirely. Uses 1. حَصَدَ, حَصَاد → "to h… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences حصر hsr To hem in within limits that forbid free movement: the impediment that stops a journey, the siege, the constrained chest, continence, the enclosure. Uses 1. أُحْصِرَ → "t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حصل hsl To bring out what was enclosed within, so as to make it manifest. Uses 1. حُصِّلَ → "to be drawn out" : what is in the chests, brought to light. «وَحُصِّلَ مَا فِى ٱلصُّد… Read the entry → Sealed18 occurrences حصن hsn To protect behind a solid rampart: the fortress, the coat of mail, or the marital bond that guards the wife. Uses 1. ٱلْمُحْصَنَٰت → "the women protected by the marital b… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences حصى hsa To enumerate to the end: an exact and complete count, which lets nothing escape. Uses 1. أَحْصَىٰ (God) → "to enumerate" : the count God keeps of beings, deeds and every… Read the entry → Sealed25 occurrences حضر hdr To be there, on the spot, at the moment a thing takes place; in the form that makes come, to bring someone or something so that it is there. Uses 1. حَضَرَ → "to present… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences حضض hdd To urge others to act by an insistent word. Uses 1. يَحُضُّ عَلَى, تَحَٰٓضُّونَ عَلَى → "to urge" : in all three uses, to urge the feeding of the destitute. «وَلَا يَحُضُ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حطب htb The wood one carries to the fire to feed it. Uses 1. ٱلْحَطَب, حَطَبًا → "firewood" : fuel: carried by a woman toward the fire that awaits her, or become what the deviant… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حطط htt To let a weight fall: to set down what was weighing. Its only use is the word asked of the sons of Israel, answered by the forgiveness of faults. Uses 1. حِطَّةٌ → "Unbur… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences حطم htm To break into pieces under a crushing pressure: the trampled ant, the plant reduced to debris, the Crusher. Uses 1. حَطَمَ → "to crush" : to grind under weight, without e… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حظر hzr To fence in, to hold within a limit: the fence, and what is restricted. Uses 1. مَحْظُور → "restricted" : held within a limit; the text denies it of God's endowment. «وَم… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences حظظ hzz The share that falls to someone: a determined measure, of goods, of reminder or of favor. Uses 1. حَظّ → "share" : the assigned measure, which one receives, loses or is r… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حفد hfd The descent that extends the line beyond the sons: the grandchildren. Uses 1. حَفَدَة → "grandchildren" : the generation after the sons, daughters included. «وَجَعَلَ لَك… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حفر hfr To dig: the hollow made in the ground, and the return, by the path already dug, to the state one started from. Uses 1. حُفْرَة → "a pit" : the hollow one was about to fal… Read the entry → Sealed44 occurrences حفظ hfz To watch over a thing so that it is neither lost, nor altered, nor harmed. Uses 1. حَفِظَ, يَحْفَظُ → "to preserve" : to keep intact: an oath, one's private parts, a brot… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حفف hff To surround on all sides: to be arranged in a circle around a center. Uses 1. حَفَّ → "to surround" : to place one thing in a circle around another. «وَحَفَفْنَٰهُمَا بِن… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences حفو hfw To give someone or something an attention carried to the end: attentiveness toward a person, thorough knowledge of a thing, the request that presses. Uses 1. حَفِىّ بِـ →… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حقب hqb A long period left without measure: duration that is not counted. Uses 1. حُقُب, أَحْقَاب → "a prolonged period", "prolonged periods" : a long duration, with no number or… Read the entry → Sealed287 occurrences حقق hqq The true: what is grounded in reality and asserts itself, as a fact that proves true or as a right that is due. Uses 1. ٱلْحَقّ → "the truth" : the real opposed to falseh… Read the entry → Sealed210 occurrences حكم hkm To judge with mastery and to make a thing unassailable: the judgment that closes a dispute, the wisdom that judges rightly, the sign that nothing can twist. Uses 1. حَكَم… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences حلف hlf To take an oath: to pledge one's word with God as guarantor, most often to cover oneself. Uses 1. حَلَفَ, يَحْلِفُ بِٱللَّهِ → "to take oaths" : the act of swearing befor… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences حلق hlq The narrow passage and the close cut: shaving the head at the end of the pilgrimage, and the throat, through which the breath withdraws. Uses 1. حَلَقَ, مُحَلِّقِينَ → "t… Read the entry → Sealed51 occurrences حلل hll To untie what holds bound: to lift a limit, and the thing is permitted; to undo a knot; at the end of a road, to unbind oneself and halt, hence the place one reaches, the… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences حلم hlm To master oneself: to hold back one's reaction to an offence without punishing at once, out of self-mastery and not out of powerlessness; the same word names the age at w… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences حلى hla To ornament: to add to a body what adorns it without being part of it; the ornament one wears. Uses 1. حِلْيَة, حُلِىّ → "ornament" : what one wears: drawn from the sea,… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences حمء hm' Dark, wet mud, between water and earth: the matter from which the human is shaped, and the murky water where the sun seems to set. Uses 1. حَمَإٍ مَّسْنُونٍ → "molded mud… Read the entry → Sealed68 occurrences حمد hmd To praise: to acknowledge aloud a quality or a favour, and to refer it to the one who is its author. Uses 1. ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ → "Praise be to God" : the formula that ope… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences حمر hmr The root carries two nouns with no link of meaning: red, a vivid colour, and the donkey, the beast that carries. Uses 1. حُمْر (the colour) → "red" : one colour among tho… Read the entry → Sealed64 occurrences حمل hml To carry: to take a weight upon oneself and bear it, whether matter, a child to be born, an entrusted deposit or a fault. Uses 1. حَمَلَ, يَحْمِلُ → "to carry", "to bear"… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences حمم hmm Intense heat: water brought to the boil, and the friend whose bond is warm. Uses 1. حَمِيم (water) → "boiling water" : the burning liquid of the punishment, drunk or pour… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences حمى hma The heat that burns and keeps at bay: fire raised to its height, the passion that defends one's clan, the beast set in reserve out of reach. Uses 1. حَامِيَة, يُحْمَىٰ →… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حنث hnth To break an oath: to violate the commitment one has sworn. Uses 1. تَحْنَثْ → "to break one's oath" : to violate a sworn oath; here, the oath is kept by a gesture. «وَلَا… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حنجر hnjr The throat: the highest point to which the core rises when anguish is extreme. Uses 1. ٱلْحَنَاجِر → "the throats" : always in the image of the cores rising up to them. «… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حنذ hndh To roast over strong heat: meat cooked through, ready to be served. Uses 1. حَنِيذ → "roasted" : the dish already ready, served without delay. «فَمَا لَبِثَ أَن جَآءَ بِع… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences حنف hnf To incline away from dispersion toward a single axis: to be wholly turned toward God, associating nothing with Him. Uses 1. حَنِيف → "wholly turned toward God" : the orie… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حنك hnk To take by the jaw: to hold in hand as one leads a mount. Uses 1. لَأَحْتَنِكَنَّ → "I shall surely seize" : Iblis's claim to hold in hand the descendants of the human. «… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حنن hnn Tenderness: the inclination of the heart that goes out to the other, given as a quality. Uses 1. حَنَان → "a tenderness" : a quality of the heart received from God, joine… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حنين hnyn Proper noun. The text so names the day of a battle in which the believers, confident in their number, were put to flight. The translation writes "Hunayn". Uses 1. حُنَيْن… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حوب hwb A grave fault that weighs: the wrong done to those who cannot defend themselves. Uses 1. حُوبًا → "a great crime" : the grave fault, said of the property of orphans devou… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences حوت hwt The fish: three accounts use it, always for the animal itself, without specifying the species. Uses 1. حُوت → "the fish" : the animal in the account of Moussa and in that… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences حوج hwj Need: what is lacking within and one seeks to fill, named without being detailed. Uses 1. حَاجَة → "need" : a need lodged in the Self or in the chest, which one satisfies… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حوذ hwdh To take a full hold over someone: to seize him. Uses 1. ٱسْتَحْوَذَ عَلَىٰ → "to take hold of" : to hold another wholly in one's hand. «ٱسْتَحْوَذَ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلشَّيْطَٰن… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences حور hwr To return: to go back to the starting point, and speech that goes back and forth between two persons. Uses 1. يَحُورَ → "to return" : to go back to where one set out from… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حوش hwsh To set apart: the formula حَٰشَ لِلَّهِ sets aside every thought of evil, taking God as witness, and serves to exonerate. Uses 1. حَٰشَ لِلَّهِ → "Far be it from God!" :… Read the entry → Sealed28 occurrences حوط hwt To encompass: to surround on every side, so that nothing escapes; said of God's power, of His knowledge, and of what closes in on man and leaves him no way out. Uses 1. م… Read the entry → Sealed25 occurrences حول hwl To turn around: to surround a point, to come between two terms, to change place, or to return to the same day after a year. Uses 1. حَوْل → "around" : the space and the b… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حوى hwa To contain by enveloping: the entrails that envelop, the plant that contracts and darkens as it dries. Uses 1. ٱلْحَوَايَا → "the entrails" : what, in the body, contains… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حيد hyd To step aside to avoid: the deliberate dodge before what one refuses to face. Uses 1. تَحِيدُ → "to shun" : the dodge kept up over time, which death comes to stop. «ذَٰلِ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حير hyr To be disoriented: to turn about without knowing where to go, having lost one's way. Uses 1. حَيْرَان → "bewildered" : the state of one whom the Diverters have lured off… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حيز hyz To draw together toward a place or a group: to withdraw so as to join one's own. Uses 1. مُتَحَيِّزًا إِلَىٰ → "a withdrawal toward" : to leave a position in order to joi… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences حيص hys To get out of trouble: the escape, which the text names only to deny it. Uses 1. مَحِيص → "escape" : the way by which one would get out of trouble; always denied or quest… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences حيض hyd The menstrual flow: menstruation, a time of the woman that calls for regard, not exclusion. Uses 1. ٱلْمَحِيض → "menstruation" : the time of the flow, and the flow itself… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حيف hyf To lean against a party in judgment, to the detriment of the one it concerns. Uses 1. يَحِيفَ عَلَى → "to lean against" : judgment that leans to the detriment of the one… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences حيق hyq To close in upon someone from every side: what he hurled at others comes back to envelop him. Uses 1. حَاقَ بِ, يَحِيقُ بِ → "to envelop" : always an evil outcome that st… Read the entry → Sealed35 occurrences حين hyn A circumscribed time: the moment when a thing happens, or the bounded span it occupies. Uses 1. حِين (noun) → "a time" : a bounded span, most often in إِلَىٰ حِينٍ or حَت… Read the entry → Sealed187 occurrences حيى hya Life: to be alive, to give life, to give life back. From life come the greeting, which wishes it to the other, and modesty, the restraint of the living being before what… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences خبء khb' What is withdrawn from sight and held within: the hidden, which God brings forth. Uses 1. ٱلْخَبْء → "what is hidden" : what is buried in the heavens and the earth, beyon… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences خبت khbt To go down of one's own accord: to lower oneself before God or before the truth one has recognized, as one goes down toward low ground. Uses 1. أَخْبَتَ, تُخْبِتَ → "to l… Read the entry → Sealed16 occurrences خبث khbth To be corrupt in one's very nature, opposite to what is good: said of goods, words, persons and acts. Uses 1. ٱلْخَبِيث, خَبِيثَة, خَبُثَ → "vile" : what is corrupt in it… Read the entry → Sealed52 occurrences خبر khbr To know a thing from within, down to its detail; and what this knowledge passes on of a fact: news. Uses 1. خَبِير, ٱلْخَبِير → "Intimately Acquainted", "the Intimately A… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences خبز khbz Bread: cooked cereal dough, the ordinary food. Uses 1. خُبْز → "bread" : what the second prison companion carries on his head in his dream. «أَحْمِلُ فَوْقَ رَأْسِى خُبْز… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences خبط khbt To disorient by a contact that shakes: to make someone lose his balance, in his gait as in his mind. Uses 1. يَتَخَبَّطُهُ → "to send staggering" : the Diverter, by his t… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences خبل khbl The disorder sown in a group to undo its cohesion and its judgment: a willed trouble, carried within by those who mingle with it. Uses 1. خَبَال → "confusion" : the troub… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences خبو khbw To sink, said of a fire: to lose its vigour and tend toward going out, without going out. Uses 1. خَبَتْ → "to die down" : the moment the flame sinks; the text sets it in… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ختر khtr To betray to the end the commitment one made: the perfidy of one who, saved from danger, disowns what he had promised in the danger. Uses 1. خَتَّار → "perfidious" : the… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences ختم khtm To seal: to close with a mark that forbids all access and completes the thing, so that nothing enters it and nothing is added to it. Uses 1. خَتَمَ عَلَى, يَخْتِمْ, نَخْت… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences خدد khdd The furrow dug lengthwise in a surface: the trench opened in the earth, and the cheek, the long side of the face. Uses 1. ٱلْأُخْدُود → "the trench" : the trench dug wher… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences خدع khd' To seek to make someone take the false for the true; in the text, the attempt always turns back upon its author. Uses 1. يُخَٰدِعُونَ → "to seek to deceive" : the form of… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences خدن khdn The companion kept apart: the intimate liaison maintained outside any recognized bond. Uses 1. أَخْدَان → "secret lovers" : those taken as intimate companions on the marg… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences خذل khdhl To withdraw one's support at the moment it would be most needed: to leave alone the one who was counting on you. Uses 1. يَخْذُلْ → "to abandon" : to withdraw one's help… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences خرب khrb To undo by hand what has been built, until it is left empty: a willed act, never the wear of time. Uses 1. خَرَاب → "dismantling" : the place of prostration undone by the… Read the entry → Sealed182 occurrences خرج khrj To pass from inside to outside: to go out of a place or a state, to bring out of it, or to drive out of it. Uses 1. خَرَجَ, يَخْرُجُ, خَٰرِج → "to come out" : to leave wh… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences خردل khrdl Mustard, whose seed serves as the standard for the smallest quantity one can conceive. Uses 1. حَبَّةٍۢ مِّنْ خَرْدَلٍ → "a mustard seed" : always in the formula of weigh… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences خرر khrr To fall all at once, from one's full height: the body that falls prostrate or thunderstruck, the thing that falls from above. Uses 1. خَرَّ, يَخِرُّونَ + سُجَّدًا → "to f… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences خرص khrs To put forward an estimate without knowledge, as though it were known. Uses 1. يَخْرُصُونَ, تَخْرُصُونَ → "to guess" : to put a figure on what one does not know; the form… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences خرطم khrtm The snout: the jutting front of an animal's face, said of a man in order to brand him. Uses 1. ٱلْخُرْطُوم → "the snout" : the face brought down to that of a beast, at th… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences خرق khrq To pierce what was all of one piece: to open a breach in a hull, in the earth, or, by a word without knowledge, in what nothing permits to be broken. Uses 1. خَرَقَ, تَخْ… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences خزن khzn To keep in reserve, under guard: the treasuries one holds, the reserve one keeps, and those who have charge of it. Uses 1. خَزَآئِن → "the treasuries" : reserves kept und… Read the entry → Sealed26 occurrences خزى khza Shame inflicted in broad daylight: a dishonour exposed before all, in the present life or on the Day of Appearance. Uses 1. خِزْى, ٱلْخِزْى → "disgrace" : disgrace as a l… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences خسء khs' To be driven back with contempt: sent far away, as one puts aside what one no longer wants, and left in that state. Uses 1. خَٰسِـِٔينَ → "rebuffed" : the sentence that s… Read the entry → Sealed65 occurrences خسر khsr To lose: to come out of an exchange with less than one put into it, as far as the loss of one's own Self. Uses 1. ٱلْخَٰسِرُون, خَٰسِرِين → "the losers" : those whose bal… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences خسف khsf To give way below one's own level and lose one's hold: the ground that opens and swallows, the heavenly body whose light withdraws. Uses 1. خَسَفَ بِـ → "to cause the ear… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences خشب khshb Cut and shaped wood: pieces that stand upright with no life of their own. Uses 1. خُشُب → "pieces of wood" : the image of the hypocrites: a bearing without inner life. «ك… Read the entry → Sealed17 occurrences خشع khsh' To make oneself low in bearing, voice and gaze: humility, chosen before God or imposed by what surpasses one. Uses 1. خَاشِع, خُشَّع → "humble" : the state of one who hol… Read the entry → Sealed48 occurrences خشى khsha To dread: the fear that keeps one alert and governs conduct, turned first toward God. Uses 1. خَشِىَ, يَخْشَىٰ, ٱخْشَوْا۟ → "to dread" : the fear that orients: one choose… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences خصص khss To set apart a precise share of the whole: to reserve a good for someone, or to lack what is missing in one's own case. Uses 1. يَخْتَصُّ بِـ → "to reserve for" : God set… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences خصف khsf To stitch one piece onto another: to apply leaves to oneself, in haste, to cover oneself. Uses 1. يَخْصِفَانِ → "to stitch onto themselves" : Adam and his spouse cover th… Read the entry → Sealed18 occurrences خصم khsm To stand against another party in a dispute: to be an opposing party, to quarrel. Uses 1. خَصْم, خَصْمَانِ → "opposing party" : each of the two sides of a dispute, which… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences خضد khdd To strip a branch of its thorns: مَخْضُود, the thorny tree whose thorn has been removed. Uses 1. مَخْضُود → "thornless" : the lote tree of the Garden, rid of what wounds.… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences خضر khdr To be green: the colour of what grows and lives, said of the plant, the tree and the garment. Uses 1. خَضِر → "a greenery" : the green shoot that water brings forth. «فَأ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences خضع khd' To bend, to become pliant: the neck that bends before a sign, the voice that softens. Uses 1. خَٰضِعِين → "bent" : the necks that would stay bent before a sign come from… Read the entry → Sealed22 occurrences خطء kht' To miss what one aimed at: error, the deviation without intent; become a deed one carries, the fault. Uses 1. أَخْطَأَ, خَطَأ → "to make a mistake", "by mistake" : the un… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences خطب khtb To turn one's speech toward someone: to address him; and what, in another, calls for addressing him, his case. Uses 1. خَاطَبَ, تُخَاطِبْ → "to address" : to carry speech… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences خطط khtt To trace by hand the strokes of a writing. Uses 1. تَخُطُّهُۥ → "to trace" : to write with one's hand, a gesture denied of the messenger before the revelation. «وَمَا كُن… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences خطف khtf To seize with a sudden movement and carry off before one can hold on: to snatch. Uses 1. خَطِفَ, يَخْطَفُ → "to snatch" : the gesture of an instant: the lightning, the bi… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences خطو khtw The step, the stride from one leg to the other; in the text, always the footsteps of the Diverter, followed one after another. Uses 1. خُطُوَٰت → "the footsteps" : what o… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences خفت khft To lower the voice to an undertone: to speak low, to hide what one says or under the effect of fear. Uses 1. تُخَافِتْ, يَتَخَٰفَتُونَ → "to say in an undertone", "to tal… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences خفض khfd To lower: to bring down what is high, out of gentleness toward others or by the reversal of the Day. Uses 1. ٱخْفِضْ جَنَاحَكَ → "lower your wing" : the gentleness that s… Read the entry → Sealed17 occurrences خفف khff To make or find less heavy: to lighten a burden, to be light, to lend little weight to a thing or to someone. Uses 1. خَفَّفَ, يُخَفِّفُ, يُخَفَّفُ → "to lighten" : to ta… Read the entry → Sealed34 occurrences خفى khfa To withdraw from sight or from knowledge: to hide, and to be hidden. Uses 1. أَخْفَىٰ, يُخْفِى, تُخْفُوا۟ → "to hide" : to keep out of sight what one has within oneself o… Read the entry → Sealed87 occurrences خلد khld To abide without end: to remain forever in a place or a state; in form IV, to cling to that in which one wishes to abide. Uses 1. خَٰلِدُونَ, خَٰلِدِينَ, خَٰلِدًا → "to a… Read the entry → Sealed31 occurrences خلص khls To separate from a mixture what must remain alone: to draw a thing out refined, to set it apart for one alone, to devote the Law to God alone. Uses 1. خَالِص, خَالِصَة →… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences خلط khlt To mix distinct elements without fusing them: they remain discernible, so that the mixture can be judged and undone. Uses 1. خَلَطَ, خَالَطَ → "to mix" : to join one's af… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences خلع khl' To take off what covers and clings to the body; in the text, to remove one's sandals before a sanctified place. Uses 1. ٱخْلَعْ → "to take off" : the gesture that answers… Read the entry → Sealed127 occurrences خلف khlf To come after or stand behind: to be at one's back, to succeed, to stay behind, to leave one's word behind; among several, each to stand in another place, hence to differ… Read the entry → Sealed261 occurrences خلق khlq To give form according to a measure: to make a thing exist with its proportions. Creating what lives belongs to God alone; said of a human, the gesture remains that of gi… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences خلل khll The space that runs between things or within them: the in-between one passes through; between two persons, the friendship that penetrates to the intimate. Uses 1. خِلَال… Read the entry → Sealed28 occurrences خلو khlw To withdraw and leave the place empty: to be alone with someone, or to have passed, in a time where one no longer is. Uses 1. خَلَا إِلَىٰ, خَلَوْا۟ → "to be alone" : to… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences خمد khmd To go out at once: to pass without transition from agitation to silence, like a fire that dies. Uses 1. خَٰمِدِينَ, خَٰمِدُونَ → "extinguished" : a people reduced to sile… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences خمر khmr To cover so as to mask: wine, which veils the mind; the cloth that covers. Uses 1. ٱلْخَمْر, خَمْر → "wine" : the drink that covers the mind; in this world joined to game… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences خمس khms The number five, and what is formed from it: the fifth, the fifth time, fifty. Uses 1. خَمْسَة → "five" : the cardinal number. «بِخَمْسَةِ ءَالَٰفٍۢ مِّنَ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences خمص khms To have a hollow belly: dearth, the want of food that presses and compels. Uses 1. مَخْمَصَة → "dearth" : the want that compels or tests. «فَمَنِ ٱضْطُرَّ فِى مَخْمَصَةٍ»… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences خمط khmt The acrid bitter: the taste of the fare borne by the punished garden. Uses 1. خَمْط → "bitter" : qualifies the fare of the two gardens given in exchange. «جَنَّتَيْنِ ذَو… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences خنزر khnzr Swine: the animal whose flesh appears in the short list of food prohibitions. Uses 1. ٱلْخِنزِير, خِنزِير → "swine" : always in the formula "the flesh of swine". «إِنَّمَ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences خنس khns To draw out of sight after showing oneself, only to return: to withdraw. Uses 1. ٱلْخُنَّس → "that withdraw" : the stars that disappear and reappear. «فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِٱل… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences خنق khnq To squeeze the throat until breath is cut off: the animal dead by strangling. Uses 1. ٱلْمُنْخَنِقَة → "the strangled animal" : the beast dead of suffocation, without its… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences خور khwr Lowing: the cry of cattle, given out by the fabricated calf, a body that does not speak. Uses 1. خُوَار → "that lowed" : the sound of the calf made of ornaments, the only… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences خوض khwd To enter water until one is caught in it: to immerse oneself in talk, to let oneself be carried by it instead of holding it. Uses 1. خَاضَ, يَخُوضُ, ٱلْخَآئِضِين → "to im… Read the entry → Sealed124 occurrences خوف khwf To fear: to sense beforehand a danger or a loss that may come, and to rule one's conduct by that sense. Uses 1. خَافَ, يَخَافُ, أَخَافُ → "to fear" : to sense an evil to… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences خول khwl The root bears two uses that the text does not connect: to vouchsafe a blessing, coming from above; and kinship through the mother, the maternal uncle and aunt. Uses 1. خ… Read the entry → Sealed16 occurrences خون khwn To betray: to break in secret the trust one has received, toward God, toward others or toward oneself. Uses 1. خَانَ, تَخُونُوا۟, ٱخْتَانَ → "to betray", "to betray onese… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences خوى khwa To be empty of what dwelt in it, the form still standing: the city without inhabitants, the trunk without a heart. Uses 1. خَاوِيَة → "empty" : said of cities, houses, a… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences خيب khyb To fail: to be deprived of the result one hoped for, as the consequence of an act. Uses 1. خَابَ → "to fail" : the failure that follows a named fault: inventing, bearing… Read the entry → Sealed196 occurrences خير khyr What is worth preferring: the good, the better; and the act of taking it from among others: to opt. Uses 1. خَيْر (noun) → "good" : what is good to do or to receive. «وَم… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences خيط khyt Thread: the thin, continuous line that at dawn separates light from dark, and that the needle draws through. Uses 1. ٱلْخَيْط → "the thread" : the first line of light aga… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences خيل khyl What gives itself to be seen: the image that appears to the eyes, the image of oneself carried before others; the same word names horses. Uses 1. ٱلْخَيْل → "horses" : mo… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences خيم khym The tent: the shelter set up under which one dwells, under cover. Uses 1. ٱلْخِيَام → "the tents" : the place where the companions of the Garden stay, sheltered. «حُورٌۭ… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences دئب d'b The constancy of a conduct that repeats itself without varying: effort kept up without respite, a course that never stops, a way of acting that becomes the mark of a peop… Read the entry → Sealed18 occurrences دبب dbb To move about on the ground: دَابَّة names everything that lives and moves on the earth, whatever its manner of going. Uses 1. دَآبَّة, ٱلدَّوَآبّ → "living being", "livi… Read the entry → Sealed44 occurrences دبر dbr The rear: what lies behind a thing or comes after it, up to its end. One turns one's back, remains last, conducts things in their sequence, follows a text through to what… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences دثر dthr To cover oneself with a cloak: to withdraw under a garment that protects. The sole use thus names the one whom the following command makes rise. Uses 1. ٱلْمُدَّثِّر → "t… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences دحر dhr To drive away forcefully and with no return: the rejection that expels the one who has transgressed. Uses 1. مَدْحُورًا → "driven away" : the one expelled; the word alway… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences دحض dhd To make lose footing: to take away from what stands the ground on which it held. The verb states the effort to bring the truth down, the adjective an argument that no lon… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences دحو dhw To open the earth so that it yields what it bears: the text itself gives the content, the water and the pasture He brings forth from it. Uses 1. دَحَىٰهَا → "He made it h… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences دخر dkhr To be abased: the full lowering of one brought down to the ground, which creation bears of itself and the arrogant one undergoes. Uses 1. دَاخِر, دَٰخِرُون → "abased" : l… Read the entry → Sealed126 occurrences دخل dkhl To enter: to pass from outside to inside a bounded space, which now contains the one who enters it; in the causative form, to make enter. Uses 1. دَخَلَ, يَدْخُلُ, ٱدْخُل… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences دخن dkhn Smoke: a matter that rises and envelops, without settled form. Uses 1. دُخَان → "smoke" : the state of the sky at the beginning, and the sign that will come from the sky… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences درء dr' To avert: to actively set at a distance what comes upon one, death, evil, punishment, or the blame that people pass to one another. Uses 1. ٱدْرَءُوا۟, يَدْرَؤُا۟ → "to a… Read the entry → Sealed20 occurrences درج drj To advance by degrees: graded progression, step after step, upward, or toward loss without seeing it come. Uses 1. دَرَجَة, دَرَجَات → "degree(s)" : a step on a ladder: G… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences درر drr To flow in a continuous, generous stream: the sky that gives without pause, and the light of a heavenly body that does not weaken. Uses 1. مِدْرَار → "in copious streams"… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences درس drs To study: to return to a writing through repeated and attentive reading, until one knows it. Uses 1. دَرَسَ, يَدْرُسُ → "to study" : active work on a writing, whether one… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences درك drk To catch up with what moves away or protects itself: a movement that ends by gaining its target, whatever the distance or the obstacle. Uses 1. أَدْرَكَ, يُدْرِكُ → "to o… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences درهم drhm The silver coin: the unit of exchange that one counts, here the paltry measure of a price. Uses 1. دَرَٰهِم → "coins" : coins in small number, so few that one numbers the… Read the entry → Sealed29 occurrences درى dra To have an idea: to form a representation of a thing, of its nature or its extent, without holding knowledge of it; in the causative form, to give an idea of it. Uses 1.… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences دسر dsr The pegs or nails that join planks: what holds together the pieces of a construction. Uses 1. دُسُر → "joining nails" : the pieces that join the planks of Nuh's vessel. «… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences دسس dss To bury: to make a thing go into a matter that covers it, until it is withdrawn from sight. Uses 1. يَدُسُّهُۥ → "to bury" : to make disappear under the ground what one w… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences دعع d'' To push away violently: a brutal rejection, said by the same verb for punishment and for contempt toward the orphan. Uses 1. يُدَعُّونَ … دَعًّا → "to be pushed violently… Read the entry → Sealed212 occurrences دعو d'w To call: to make someone come by voice or by name, whether one summons him, invokes him, or calls him to something. Uses 1. دَعَا, يَدْعُو, ٱدْعُ → "to call", "to call to… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences دفء df' The warmth that keeps the body from the cold, drawn from what cattle provide. Uses 1. دِفْء → "warmth" : warmth that is provided, not the temperature of the air. «لَكُمْ… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences دفع df' To push away from oneself: to repel what advances by setting a force against it; with إِلَىٰ, to push a good toward the one to whom it belongs, to hand it over. Uses 1. د… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences دفق dfq To gush forth with force: a liquid driven out of itself, not a flow that spills over. Uses 1. دَافِق → "gushing" : the water from which the human being is created. «خُلِق… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences دكك dkk To crush a mass by packing it down under pressure, until it is levelled: the mountain sinks down, the rampart is reduced to dust, the earth is flattened. Uses 1. جَعَلَهُ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences دلك dlk The decline: the sun tilting and leaving the full of the day, marking the passage from one time to another. Uses 1. دُلُوك ٱلشَّمْس → "the sun's decline" : the moment the… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences دلل dll To lead to a point: to show someone where what he seeks is to be found, or, by delusion, to bring him down to it. Uses 1. هَلْ أَدُلُّكُمْ عَلَىٰ → "shall I point you to"… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences دلو dlw To let down at the end of a line: the bucket one lets down into the well, and, by image, what one puts forward to someone in order to draw something from him. Uses 1. أَد… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences دمدم dmdm To crush under blows that repeat: the doubled word states the punishment that falls upon a whole people and levels it. Uses 1. فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ → "pounded them" : th… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences دمر dmr To destroy without remainder: to bring down what a people has built, and the people with it, at the end of an account in which the saying has proved true. Uses 1. دَمَّرَ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences دمع dm' Tears: what overflows from the eyes when emotion exceeds what one holds back. Uses 1. ٱلدَّمْع → "tears" : the visible flow of emotion, always in the turn "the eyes overf… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences دمغ dmgh To crush at one blow: to strike head-on what has no substance, until nothing of it is left. Uses 1. يَدْمَغُ → "to crush" : truth hurled against falsehood, which reaches… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences دمم dmm Blood: what flows in the living body. The text names it above all where a limit protects it: the blood one does not shed, the blood one does not consume. Uses 1. ٱلدِّمَآ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences دنر dnr The dinar: a coin, taken as the measure of a small sum. Uses 1. دِينَار → "a dinar" : the small sum entrusted, set against the large sum. «وَمِنْهُم مَّنْ إِن تَأْمَنْهُ… Read the entry → Sealed133 occurrences دنو dnw To be near, in space or in time; hence ٱلدُّنْيَا, the nearest life, the present one, always set against the last life. Uses 1. ٱلدُّنْيَا → "the present life" : used alo… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences دهر dhr Time as a duration without agent: an anonymous flow, which wills nothing and does nothing of itself. Uses 1. ٱلدَّهْر → "time" : the duration invoked, wrongly, as a cause… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences دهق dhq Full to overflowing: a cup filled to the brim, lacking nothing. Uses 1. دِهَاقًا → "brimming" : the cup that closes the list of delights. «وَكَأْسًۭا دِهَاقًۭا» — "and a… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences دهم dhm To be of a green so dense that it verges on black: the colour of a profuse vegetation. Uses 1. مُدْهَآمَّتَانِ → "deep green" : the dual: the two gardens that lie beyond… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences دهن dhn To anoint: oil, the unctuous matter the tree yields; figuratively, complaisance that coats the other with concessions, yielding so as to be yielded to. Uses 1. ٱلدُّهْن →… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences دهى dha What overwhelms by its gravity: calamity, brought here to the comparative to speak of the Hour. Uses 1. أَدْهَىٰ → "more terrible" : a comparative without a second term:… Read the entry → Sealed55 occurrences دور dwr What turns and what surrounds: the abode, the place that encloses a life and from which one may be driven out, here below or in the last life; hence the setback, what fat… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences دول dwl To pass from one to another: what goes round among people without staying with any, days as well as goods. Uses 1. نُدَاوِلُهَا → "to make pass from one to another" : the… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences دوم dwm To last: to hold on without interruption for as long as its frame lasts, a presence, a life, the heavens and the earth. Uses 1. مَا دَامَ → "as long as… endure", "as long… Read the entry → Sealed101 occurrences دين dyn What is due: the Law that governs a conduct and to which one conforms, what it renders to each on the Day of the Due, and the debt one must honour. Uses 1. دِين, ٱلدِّين… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences ذئب dh'b The wolf, the beast of prey that devours. The text names it only in the account of Youssof, where the father's fear becomes the brothers' alibi. Uses 1. ٱلذِّئْب → "the w… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ذئم dh'm To blame with contempt: to strike someone with a judgment that disgraces him. The single use qualifies Iblis sent away after his refusal: "reviled". Uses 1. مَذْءُوم → "r… Read the entry → Sealed30 occurrences ذات dhat What a thing bears as its own: the content it holds, or the quality it is endowed with. The word never stands alone: it takes its value from the noun that follows it. Use… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ذبب dhbb The fly: the insect the text takes as the measure of the powerlessness of those invoked besides God. Uses 1. ذُبَاب → "fly" : the slightest of insects, set twice within t… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences ذبح dhbh To slaughter: to cut the throat of a living being. The same gesture serves the command received and the crime committed: it is the subject and the frame that make it a pr… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ذبذب dhbdhb To swing between two positions without settling in either: the word doubles its root as the gesture repeats itself. Uses 1. مُذَبْذَبِين → "wavering" : tossed from one si… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ذخر dhkhr To set aside at home what one does not consume at once: the provision kept in the household, out of others' sight. Uses 1. تَدَّخِرُونَ → "to store up" : to keep in one's… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences ذرء dhr' To spread in number over an expanse: God makes what exists multiply and spread, people as well as cattle and plants. The verb does not say the act of bringing into existe… Read the entry → Sealed38 occurrences ذرر dhrr What spreads in tiny parcels from a single origin: descendants, issuing from a person and spreading after him, and the grain, the smallest measure of what is weighed. Use… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences ذرع dhr' The reach of the arm: the forearm that measures, the paw that stretches out, and the capacity to embrace what comes. When this reach narrows, one can no longer cope. Uses… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences ذرو dhrw To disperse to the wind, as grain is winnowed: what the breath carries off, separates and spreads. Uses 1. ٱلذَّٰرِيَٰت, ذَرْوًا → "those that winnow", "winnowing" : the… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ذعن dh'n To yield: to come to someone and submit to his judgment. The single use shows those who yield only when the judgment proves them right. Uses 1. مُذْعِنِين → "in full comp… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences ذقن dhqn The chin: the point of the face, which the text names when the head is lowered to the ground, or when it is prevented from lowering. Uses 1. ٱلْأَذْقَان → "the chins" : t… Read the entry → Sealed292 occurrences ذكر dhkr To bring back to mind what already has its place there: to remember, to remind others, to mention; the Reminder is the text that performs this gesture. Under the same roo… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ذكو dhkw To stoke the fire: to draw from it the live flame that cleanses. The text uses it once, for flesh passed through the fire. Uses 1. ذَكَّيْتُمْ → "to purify by fire" : to… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ذلكن dhlkn Demonstrative of distance addressed to a group of women, ـكُنَّ: "this is", said to women, to show them someone. Uses 1. فَذَٰلِكُنَّ + ٱلَّذِى → "this is the one" : the… Read the entry → Sealed24 occurrences ذلل dhll The lowering of what yields: humiliation when it is inflicted, docility when it is the nature of a thing made manageable. Uses 1. ذِلَّة, ذُلّ → "humiliation" : the lower… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences ذمم dhmm A responsibility held: the bond that commits and makes one answerable, and, on the other side, the state of one who has failed in it and is reproved. Uses 1. ذِمَّة → "su… Read the entry → Sealed39 occurrences ذنب dhnb What trails behind: the act that stays attached to its author and follows him. Hence the offense, a grievance hanging toward God or toward a third party, and the share of… Read the entry → Sealed56 occurrences ذهب dhhb To go away: to leave a place or someone; with بِـ, to leave taking something along; in the causative form, to make go until it disappears. The noun ٱلذَّهَب, gold, bears… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ذهل dhhl To forget under the blow of a shock: a fright so strong that it wipes out even the closest attachment. Uses 1. تَذْهَلُ عَنْ → "to be oblivious of" : forgetting torn out… Read the entry → Sealed37 occurrences ذو dhw Noun of attachment: it binds a being to what it holds and what serves to name it, a quality, a good or a state. Said of God, it is rendered "possessor of"; said of a huma… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ذوا dhwa Dual of ذو, "two holders of". In its two uses, ذَوَا عَدْلٍ designates two persons whose justice grounds a decision or a testimony. Uses 1. ذَوَا عَدْلٍ → "two just ones"… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ذود dhwd To keep a flock apart: to hold it back from a place one does not yet approach. Uses 1. تَذُودَانِ → "to hold back" : to keep one's animals behind, away from the water occ… Read the entry → Sealed63 occurrences ذوق dhwq To experience by taste: to receive within oneself, directly, what one only had before one. Said first of a fruit, the verb then says death, punishment, benevolence or the… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ذوى dhwa Possessor of: the word names those who bear a bond or a quality, and lives only through the noun that follows it. Uses 1. ذَوِى ٱلْقُرْبَىٰ → "relatives" : the possessors… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ذيع dhy' To spread news about: to make it run beyond the circle it reached, before it has been examined. Uses 1. أَذَاعَ بِـ → "to broadcast" : to make news circulate as soon as i… Read the entry → Sealed18 occurrences رئس r's The head: the upper part of the body, the one that comes first; by the same image, the head of one's goods, the original sum from which all the rest comes. Uses 1. رَأْس,… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences رئف r'f Kindness: a gentleness of heart that spares and shields; almost always said of God, and almost always followed by "Benevolent". Uses 1. رَءُوف → "full of kindness" : an a… Read the entry → Sealed328 occurrences رئى r'a To see: to perceive by sight; and, from there, to show, to make oneself seen, or to judge from what one sees. Uses 1. رَأَىٰ, يَرَىٰ, تَرَىٰ → "to see" : direct perceptio… Read the entry → Sealed980 occurrences ربب rbb To make grow by providing: to nourish, to raise, to bring to maturity. From this care comes the authority of the one who provides: the Guardian when it is God, the master… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ربح rbh The gain an exchange yields: what a trade produces beyond its stake. Uses 1. رَبِحَت → "to prove lucrative" : the trade that yields; here, denied. «فَمَا رَبِحَت تِّجَٰرَ… Read the entry → Sealed17 occurrences ربص rbs To wait while reckoning: to remain in expectation until an event decides, whether a fixed period or a setback anticipated for another. Uses 1. تَرَبُّص, يَتَرَبَّصْنَ (th… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences ربط rbt To bind and hold tight, so that nothing gives way: the core God binds so that it does not yield, horses kept tied and ready, a community that stands ready. Uses 1. رَبَطَ… Read the entry → Sealed22 occurrences ربع rb' The number four and what proceeds from it: the quarter, the fourth, forty, and distribution by fours. Uses 1. أَرْبَعَة, أَرْبَع → "four" : the number that governs the la… Read the entry → Sealed20 occurrences ربو rbw To grow by swelling, beyond the ordinary level: the earth that swells under water, the froth that puffs up, the height that overlooks, and the debt that usury makes swell… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences رتع rt' To frolic freely, like cattle roaming the pasture: to enjoy oneself without constraint or aim. Uses 1. يَرْتَعْ → "that he may enjoy himself" : the free enjoyment of the… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences رتق rtq To be joined in one piece, without opening: the state of what forms a single mass before being separated. Uses 1. رَتْق → "a joined mass" : the heavens and the earth befo… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences رتل rtl To set speech out in measured sequence, element after element, without haste: so the Recitation is given, and so it is recited. Uses 1. رَتَّلْنَٰهُ تَرْتِيلًا → "to set… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences رجج rjj To rock with a violent jolt what ordinarily stands still: the whole earth, at the opening of the Hour. Uses 1. رُجَّتْ, رَجًّا → "to be rocked with a violent rocking" : t… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences رجز rjz The defilement that strikes in return for a deed: sent down "from the sky" upon those who transgressed, it can be removed; and one must keep away from it. Uses 1. رِجْزًا… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences رجس rjs What is defiled in itself and must be kept at a distance: a practice, a food, idols, persons; and the filth God places upon those who refuse to believe. Uses 1. رِجْسٌ (p… Read the entry → Sealed104 occurrences رجع rj' To go toward the point one comes from: to return to a place, to one's own, and at the end to God; in the transitive form, to make return. Uses 1. رَجَعَ, ٱرْجِعْ, يَرْجِع… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences رجف rjf To tremble with a shock that shakes what stood firm: the ground beneath a people, the earth and the mountains on the Day, a city through rumor. Uses 1. ٱلرَّجْفَة → "the… Read the entry → Sealed73 occurrences رجل rjl The foot, and the one who stands and moves forward on his feet: the limb that carries walking, the man, and the gait of one who goes on foot. Uses 1. رَجُل, رِجَال → "man… Read the entry → Sealed14 occurrences رجم rjm To fling: to throw far from oneself. To fling someone out of the group is to banish him; what one flings are missiles; and one also flings, without ground, toward what es… Read the entry → Sealed28 occurrences رجو rjw To stand before what has not yet come about: to hope for it, or to leave its outcome pending; the plural أَرْجَاء names the edges. Uses 1. رَجَا, يَرْجُو → "to hope" : to… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences رحب rhb The amplitude of a place that opens and welcomes. Uses 1. بِمَا رَحُبَتْ → "despite its vastness" : the vast earth that nevertheless becomes narrow. «وَضَاقَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences رحق rhq A nectar: a pure drink, kept sealed until the one who receives it. Uses 1. رَحِيق → "a nectar" : the drink of the virtuous, sealed with musk. «يُسْقَوْنَ مِن رَّحِيقٍۢ مَ… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences رحل rhl What one loads in order to set out, and the setting out itself: each traveller's saddlebag, the caravan's journey. Uses 1. رَحْل, رِحَال → "saddlebag", "saddlebags" : the… Read the entry → Sealed563 occurrences رحم rhm To enfold so as to give life, as the womb carries the child: the womb itself, the kinship born of it, and the benevolence that extends this care without condition. Uses 1… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences رخو rkhw To move without jolt: the gentleness of a docile movement, said of the wind that runs at Sulayman's command. Uses 1. رُخَآءً → "gently" : the way the subjected wind runs:… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ردء rd' The backing that comes second in order to confirm: one sent alongside another so that he may affirm him. Uses 1. رِدْء → "support" : a second who confirms the word of the… Read the entry → Sealed59 occurrences ردد rdd To make go back, toward the point one came from: to bring back, to give back, to turn back what is coming; in the reflexive form, to go back over one's own steps, even to… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences ردف rdf To come right behind, like the rider seated behind another: to follow without interval. Uses 1. مُرْدِفِينَ → "following one another" : reinforcements arriving one behind… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ردم rdm To fill a passage by heaping matter into it: the solid work that closes a breach. Uses 1. رَدْمًا → "a rampart" : the massive work promised by Dhul-Qarnayn. «أَجْعَلْ بَي… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences ردى rda To decline until one falls: the fall to which what one has followed leads, and the state of the beast that declines until death. Uses 1. تَرَدَّىٰ, تَرْدَىٰ → "to fall",… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences رذل rdhl The lowest point of a scale: the rank despised among people, or the age at which life falls back to its lowest. Uses 1. أَرَاذِل, ٱلْأَرْذَلُونَ → "the lowliest" : in the… Read the entry → Sealed123 occurrences رزق rzq To provide what makes one live: the provision given, material or not, of which God is the first provider and which man only passes on. Uses 1. رَزَقَ, يَرْزُقُ → "to prov… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences رسخ rskh To sink in and hold, like a root in the soil: the depth of a knowledge that does not waver. Uses 1. ٱلرَّٰسِخُونَ فِى ٱلْعِلْمِ → "those deeply rooted in knowledge" : tho… Read the entry → Sealed513 occurrences رسل rsl To send with a charge toward a destination: the messenger who carries the message of the One who sends him, or the force released toward its target, winds or punishment.… Read the entry → Sealed14 occurrences رسو rsw To settle at a point and hold there, like a ship that drops anchor: the mountains that hold the earth, a vessel's mooring, the point at which the Hour will come to rest.… Read the entry → Sealed19 occurrences رشد rshd Rectitude of judgment: the maturity that sees and chooses what is right, whether one has it, seeks it, or brings another to it. Uses 1. رُشْد, رَشَد → "rectitude" : the q… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences رصد rsd To lie in wait: to stand posted so as to watch what comes, and await it on its way. Uses 1. مَرْصَد, إِرْصَاد, مِرْصَاد → "point of observation", "lookout post" : the pla… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences رصص rss To press elements against one another leaving no gap, like the stones of a compact structure. Uses 1. مَّرْصُوص → "compact" : a structure in which no element lets light t… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences رضع rd' To take an infant into care: to feed it, carry it and answer for it until weaning; a care which, when complete, founds a kinship. Uses 1. يُرْضِعْنَ, أَرْضَعَ, أَرْضِعِيه… Read the entry → Sealed73 occurrences رضو rdw To be satisfied: to find good what comes, and to welcome it. Said of God, it is to approve; between two parties, it is mutual satisfaction. Uses 1. رَضِىَ عَنْ, رَضِىَ بِ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences رطب rtb What is fresh and full of water, as opposed to the dry. Uses 1. رَطْب → "moist" : one half of a pair that encompasses all matter. «وَلَا رَطْبٍۢ وَلَا يَابِسٍ إِلَّا فِى… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences رعب r'b Terror: a sudden dread cast into the core, which undoes before any battle. Uses 1. أَلْقَىٰ, قَذَفَ … ٱلرُّعْب → "to cast terror" : terror cast into the cores of the adve… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences رعد r'd Thunder: the crash of the storm, which the text counts among those who glorify God. Uses 1. رَعْد, ٱلرَّعْد → "thunder", "the thunder" : the sound of the storm, with the… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences رعى r'a To watch over what is in one's keeping: to lead a flock to graze; to be watchful over a trust or a pact. Uses 1. ٱرْعَوْا۟, ٱلرِّعَآء → "to graze", "the shepherds" : the… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences رغب rghb To carry one's desire in a direction: toward a thing, or away from it, according to the preposition. Uses 1. رَغِبَ إِلَىٰ, رَغَب → "to turn in yearning", "yearning" : de… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences رغد rghd Ample ease: what comes without effort and without measure. Uses 1. رَغَدًا → "at your ease", "with ease" : to eat without restriction; a provision that comes amply. «وَكُ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences رغم rghm The place where one escapes constraint: a refuge that reverses the situation of the one who had to leave. Uses 1. مُرَٰغَم → "refuge" : what the one who emigrates finds o… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences رفت rft What crumbles: the matter of an undone body, reduced to crumbled remains, beyond the bones. Uses 1. رُفَٰت → "crumbled remains" : the state of the undone body, joined to… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences رفث rfth The carnal relation and the speech that relates to it; the setting in which it takes place decides whether it is permitted or set aside. Uses 1. ٱلرَّفَث إِلَىٰ → "intima… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences رفد rfd To make a gift in support: what is given to someone to accompany and sustain him. Uses 1. ٱلرِّفْد, ٱلْمَرْفُود → "gift", "that which was made to them" : the noun and its… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences رفرف rfrf Drapes: soft fabrics on which one reclines, green in the gardens. Uses 1. رَفْرَف → "drapes" : the green drapes of the gardens, with exceptional carpets. «مُتَّكِـِٔينَ ع… Read the entry → Sealed29 occurrences رفع rf' To carry upward: to elevate a thing, a person or a rank, always in a vertical movement. Uses 1. رَفَعَ, يَرْفَعُ → "to elevate" : to raise upward what is built or created… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences رفق rfq What one leans on and what relieves: the elbow, the companion who goes with one on the way, the support God prepares, the place where one leans. Uses 1. رَفِيق → "fellows… Read the entry → Sealed24 occurrences رقب rqb To keep under one's gaze, vigilantly: to observe, to watch, to respect; and the nape, by which one holds a person, hence the person held under the burden of a debt. Uses… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences رقد rqd To lie asleep, in a stillness that hides what it is: the long sleep one would take for waking, or death that is called a sleep. Uses 1. رُقُود → "asleep" : sleepers whom… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences رقق rqq The fine skin prepared to receive writing: parchment. Uses 1. رَقّ → "parchment" : the support on which the writing is recorded, here deployed. «وَكِتَٰبٍۢ مَّسْطُورٍۢ فِ… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences رقم rqm To trace signs that remain: to inscribe legibly and durably. Uses 1. مَرْقُوم → "written" : what defines the two records of sura 83. «كِتَٰبٌۭ مَّرْقُومٌۭ» — "A written r… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences رقى rqa To climb, to rise upward: to ascend to the sky, to rise by the means; and, at the hour of death, the question of who will raise up. Uses 1. رَقِىَ, رُقِىّ → "to ascend",… Read the entry → Sealed15 occurrences ركب rkb To place oneself upon what carries: to ride an animal or board a vessel; and, by the image of things set one upon another, to assemble. Uses 1. رَكِبَ, ٱرْكَبُوا۟ → "to r… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ركد rkd To come to a stop for want of a driving force: the ship held still on the surface when the wind ceases. Uses 1. رَوَاكِد → "becalmed" : vessels stopped by the absence of… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ركز rkz The faintest sound, barely perceptible: what remains when nothing remains. Uses 1. رِكْز → "the faintest murmur" : the weakest trace of sound. «أَوْ تَسْمَعُ لَهُمْ رِكْز… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ركس rks To overturn while bringing back: to make someone fall back into the state he seemed to have left. Uses 1. أَرْكَسَ → "to cast back" : God makes the hypocrites fall back,… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences ركض rkd To run pushing with the foot: the brisk run, whether flight before rigor or an impulse toward what is given. Uses 1. يَرْكُضُونَ, لَا تَرْكُضُوا۟ → "to run off" : the run… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences ركع rk' To kneel: to come down onto the knees, a gesture that precedes prostration and expresses allegiance. Uses 1. ٱرْكَعُوا۟, يَرْكَعُونَ → "to kneel" : the command given, and… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences ركم rkm To heap up: to pile elements upon one another until they make a single mass. Uses 1. يَرْكُمَهُۥ → "to make of it a whole heap" : the vile, placed part upon part, then ma… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences ركن rkn The support on which one rests: the pillar that upholds, and the gesture of leaning upon it. Uses 1. رُكْن → "a support", "his support" : what upholds someone. «أَوْ ءَاو… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences رمح rmh The spear: the weapon held in the hand that reaches a little farther than the hand. Uses 1. رِمَاح → "spears" : named with the hands, as what reaches the game. «تَنَالُهُ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences رمد rmd Ash: what remains of fire, weightless, and carried off by the wind. Uses 1. رَمَاد → "ashes" : the image of the works of those who disown. «أَعْمَٰلُهُمْ كَرَمَادٍ ٱشْتَد… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences رمز rmz To make a sign without speaking: the gesture that takes the place of speech. Uses 1. رَمْزًا → "by gestures" : to speak to others by gesture alone. «أَلَّا تُكَلِّمَ ٱلنَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences رمضان rmdan From ر م ض, the heat the ground keeps and the first coolness that dispels it: the text makes it the name of a month, "the month of refreshment". The translation renders t… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences رمم rmm What has fallen to dust: matter undone until it has no form left. Uses 1. رَمِيم → "dust" : bones come to the end of their undoing. «مَن يُحْىِ ٱلْعِظَٰمَ وَهِىَ رَمِيمٌۭ… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences رمن rmn The pomegranate tree and its fruit. Uses 1. ٱلرُّمَّان → "the pomegranate", "pomegranates" : the tree named with the olive, or among the fruits of the gardens. «وَٱلزَّيْ… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences رمى rma To throw toward a target: a stone, sparks, or an accusation cast upon someone. Uses 1. رَمَىٰ, تَرْمِى → "to throw", "to hurl" : the gesture directed at what it aims at.… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences رهب rhb To dread with reverence: the fear that holds in respect and governs conduct. The monk takes his name from it. Uses 1. رَهِبَ, يَرْهَبُونَ, ٱرْهَبُونِ → "to revere" : the… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences رهط rht The small group one belongs to: the kindred that protects, or a handful of men one counts. Uses 1. رَهْط → "kindred" : the narrow group of one's own, weighty through its… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences رهق rhq To veil and crush by a force come from outside: the humiliation that veils the faces, the weight that exceeds what one can bear. Uses 1. رَهِقَ, تَرْهَقُ → "to veil" : wh… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences رهن rhn To hold in pledge: what is retained as a guarantee of what is owed, a good handed to the creditor, or the person held by what he has earned. Uses 1. رِهَٰن → "a pledge" :… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences رهو rhw To leave as it is, still, without touching it: the sea left as it stands behind those who crossed it. Uses 1. رَهْوًا → "still" : a state one is ordered not to disturb. «… Read the entry → Sealed57 occurrences روح rwh The breath that goes and moves without letting itself be seen: the Influx God sends down, the wind, the scent it carries, the momentum of a group, the rest it brings at t… Read the entry → Sealed148 occurrences رود rwd To bend one's will toward an aim: to want. In form III, to seek to turn another's will toward one's own. Uses 1. أَرَادَ, يُرِيدُ → "to want" : the will turned toward wha… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences روض rwd The flowering garden: a ground covered with grass and flowers, setting of joy. Uses 1. رَوْضَة, رَوْضَات → "flowering meadow", "flowering meadows" : the flowering part of… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences روع rw' Sudden alarm, which seizes and then fades. Uses 1. ٱلرَّوْع → "the alarm" : the shock of an instant. «فَلَمَّا ذَهَبَ عَنْ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ ٱلرَّوْعُ» — "When the alarm had l… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences روغ rwgh To make one's way toward someone or something out of sight, with a stealthy movement; the gesture says nothing of the intention. Uses 1. رَاغَ إِلَى → "to steal away to"… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences روم rwm Name of a people. The text names it in an announcement: victorious, then defeated "within a few years". The translation writes "the Romans". Uses 1. ٱلرُّوم → "the Romans… Read the entry → Sealed36 occurrences ريب ryb The doubt that troubles: an uncertainty that prevents adherence, always set against what leaves no room for doubt. Uses 1. لَا رَيْبَ (فِيهِ) → "no doubt possible", "abou… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ريش rysh Feathers: what covers a body and adorns it at once. Uses 1. رِيش → "feathers" : the second of the gifts that cover the sons of Adam. «لِبَاسًۭا يُوَٰرِى سَوْءَٰتِكُمْ وَر… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ريع ry' A rise of ground: a place in view, where one builds in order to be seen. Uses 1. رِيع → "a hill" : the raised place chosen so that the work is seen. «أَتَبْنُونَ بِكُلِّ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences رين ryn To cover little by little, as rust spreads over metal: the layer that repeated acts lay down. Uses 1. رَانَ عَلَىٰ → "to rust" : what accumulates on the core until it cov… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences زبد zbd Froth: what rises to the surface of floodwater or of molten metal, is seen first, then goes off leaving no profit. Uses 1. زَبَد → "froth" : the light matter the torrent… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences زبر zbr To cut clean and fix: the piece cut out with precision, and the writing that fixes a form to follow. Uses 1. زُبَر (metal) → "blocks" : pieces of cut iron, the materials… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences زبن zbn To push back with force. The text draws from it the name of those God calls against the one who forbids: the Zabaniya, those who push back. Uses 1. ٱلزَّبَانِيَة → "the Z… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences زجج zjj Glass: the transparent matter that encloses the flame and lets its light pass through. Uses 1. زُجَاجَة → "a glass" : the container of the lamp, then, taken up at once, w… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences زجر zjr To make retreat with a loud voice: the rumbling that drives off, rouses or deters. Uses 1. ٱلزَّٰجِرَٰت, زَجْرًا → "those who rumble with force" : in the opening oath, th… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences زجو zjw To push gently and steadily forward: the vessel on the sea, the clouds in the sky; hence what one moves along only with difficulty, for lack of worth. Uses 1. يُزْجِى → "… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences زحزح zhzh To move out of the reach of what threatens: to pull away from the punishment or the Fire one who was exposed to it. Uses 1. مُزَحْزِح → "to pull away" : negated: what one… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences زحف zhf To advance slowly and in a mass: the advance of a troop coming into battle. Uses 1. زَحْفًا → "on the offensive" : the adversary advancing as one body toward the encounte… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences زخرف zkhrf Gilding: the sheen laid on the surface, which charms the eye without holding to the substance — on a house, on the earth in its season, on speech. Uses 1. زُخْرُف → "gild… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences زربيه zrbyh The carpet: the fabric one spreads on the ground to sit on. Its single use places it at the end of the furnishings of the Garden. Uses 1. زَرَابِىّ → "carpets" : spread o… Read the entry → Sealed14 occurrences زرع zr' To entrust to the earth what must come up, and what comes up from it: to sow, to cultivate, crops. Uses 1. ٱلزَّرْع, زُرُوع → "crops", "cultivation" : what comes up from… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences زرق zrq Livid: the pale, bluish hue the face takes on under dread. Uses 1. زُرْقًا → "livid" : the state of the severed gathered on the day of the Horn. «وَنَحْشُرُ ٱلْمُجْرِمِين… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences زرى zra To lower with the gaze: to judge someone unworthy of regard on appearance alone. Uses 1. تَزْدَرِى → "to hold in contempt" : the subject is the gaze itself: it is the eye… Read the entry → Sealed17 occurrences زعم z'm To put forward an assertion without proving it: to claim. The one who steps forward thus in his own name, and answers for it, is the guarantor. Uses 1. زَعَمَ, زَعَمْتُمْ… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences زفر zfr To drive out the breath with force and with noise: the rattle of the wretched in the Fire, and that of the Fire itself. Uses 1. زَفِير (of the wretched) → "rattling" : th… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences زفف zff To come at a hurried pace and together, with one impulse, toward a place or toward someone. Uses 1. يَزِفُّونَ → "rushing" : the people hurrying up in one movement. «فَأَ… Read the entry → Sealed59 occurrences زكو zkw To make pure what must grow: to remove what weighs down so that growth is sound. Hence to purify and to purify oneself, purity; and pure liberality, the gift without admi… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences زلزل zlzl To shake with a redoubled shaking: the earth at the Hour, or the believers in trial. Uses 1. زُلْزِلَتِ, زِلْزَالَهَا, زَلْزَلَة → "to quake", "the quaking" : the proper… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences زلف zlf To reduce a distance: to bring near, in space, in time or in rank. Uses 1. أَزْلَفَ, أُزْلِفَتْ → "to bring near", "to bring close" : to bring near what was far: the Gard… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences زلق zlq To make lose footing: a surface where nothing holds, or looks that would make one fall. Uses 1. زَلَقًا → "slippery" : the outcrop become such that nothing holds on it an… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences زلل zll To lose one's footing: to slip from a firm position, most often under a push from elsewhere. Uses 1. أَزَلَّ, ٱسْتَزَلَّ → "to make slip" : the cause is the Diverter, who… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences زلم zlm The arrows of lot: the marked shafts drawn to distribute shares. Uses 1. ٱلْأَزْلَٰم → "drawn by lot with arrows", "the sharing by lot" : the distribution, by a game of c… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences زمر zmr The troop: a body of people moving with one motion toward one place. The two uses thus lead mankind to its two abodes. Uses 1. زُمَرًا → "in troops" : each one led with o… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences زمل zml To wrap oneself: to cover oneself with a garment, to withdraw beneath it. The single use thus names the one whom the following command makes rise. Uses 1. ٱلْمُزَّمِّل →… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences زمهر zmhr Glacial cold: the extreme of cold, the cold that bites. Uses 1. زَمْهَرِير → "bitter cold" : denied of the Garden, together with the sun. «لَا يَرَوْنَ فِيهَا شَمْسًۭا وَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences زنجبيل znjbyl Ginger: the spice that makes the mixture of a cup offered in the Garden. Uses 1. زَنجَبِيل → "ginger" : the named component of a cup, like the camphor of 76:5. «كَأْسًۭا… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences زنم znm The appendage of flesh hanging below the ear of certain beasts and marking them out in the herd; hence one who clings to a group without belonging to it. The translation… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences زنى zna Carnal relation outside the recognized bond: fornication. Uses 1. ٱلزِّنَى → "fornication" : the act itself, which one must not even approach. «وَلَا تَقْرَبُوا۟ ٱلزِّنَى… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences زهد zhd To make little of: to set hardly any value on what one holds or gives up. Uses 1. ٱلزَّٰهِدِين → "they attached little importance to him" : the indifference of the seller… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences زهر zhr Glitter: what shines for a time and draws the eye. The single use says it of the present life, given as enjoyment in order to test. Uses 1. زَهْرَة → "the glitter" : what… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences زهق zhq To vanish without return: what has only a semblance of substance slips away and disappears — the Self leaving life, falsehood before the truth. Uses 1. تَزْهَقَ (the Self… Read the entry → Sealed81 occurrences زوج zwj One of the two of a pair, complete only with the other: the spouse, and the pair throughout creation. Uses 1. زَوْج, أَزْوَاج (humans) → "spouse(s)", "wife", "wives", "hu… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences زود zwd To provide oneself for the road: to take in advance what will keep one alive on the way. Uses 1. تَزَوَّدُوا۟ → "take your provisions" : the order to provide oneself befo… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences زور zwr To incline off the axis: speech that turns aside from the truth, the sun that moves to one side, the step that turns toward a place. Uses 1. ٱلزُّور → "falsification" : s… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences زول zwl To leave one's place and cease to be: to disappear, said of what seemed most stable. Uses 1. تَزُولَ, زَالَتَا → "to vanish", "to cease" : the mountains, the heavens and… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences زيت zyt The olive and its oil: the olive tree, a nourishing tree, and the oil that gives light. Uses 1. ٱلزَّيْتُون → "the olive" : the tree, among the crops that water makes gro… Read the entry → Sealed62 occurrences زيد zyd To increase: to add to what is already there, for good as for ill, and to give more than what is due. Uses 1. زَادَ, يَزِيدُ → "to increase" : God, a sign or an act adds… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences زيغ zygh To deviate: to leave the straight axis. The word is said of the core that turns away from what it has received, and of the gaze that strays from what it must see. Uses 1.… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences زيل zyl To come apart from a state or a whole. Negated, the verb says that a state does not cease; in the intensive form, that what was mingled is separated. Uses 1. لَا يَزَالُ,… Read the entry → Sealed46 occurrences زين zyn To make fair to see, so that the gaze or desire fastens on it: God adorns the sky, and what is embellished in someone's eyes may just as well be evil. Uses 1. زَيَّنَ لِـ… Read the entry → Sealed128 occurrences سئل s'l To turn to someone so that he gives: a thing, or an answer. In the passive, the question becomes an account to be rendered. Uses 1. سَأَلَ, يَسْـَٔلُ + object → "to ask"… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سئم s'm To tire of an act that requires lasting. The text uses it only negated or forbidden. Uses 1. سَئِمَ, يَسْـَٔمُ → "to tire of" : to lose constancy in a repeated act. «وَلَ… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences سال sal To make desirable what one wants, to the point of making it wanted: the inner voice that embellishes an act and pushes toward it, and, from the same ground, the thing wis… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences سبب sbb What connects one thing to another and allows one to reach it: the link one follows, extends or sees severed, the means by which one ascends. The same letters also say, i… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences سبت sbt To interrupt the course of activity. The noun names the instituted Rest, which the text ascribes to those who received it and never to God, and the sleep that cuts off th… Read the entry → Sealed92 occurrences سبح sbh To move on in a continuous motion without leaving one's course: the swimming of the stars in their orbit, and glorification, by which every creature keeps its place befor… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences سبط sbt The branches sprung from one stock: a people divided into distinct bloodlines, born of a common ancestry; after Yaacoub, the whole of the bloodlines issued from him, name… Read the entry → Sealed28 occurrences سبع sb' The number seven: an exact count, which orders a finite and verifiable set; seventy is its tenfold. Uses 1. سَبْع, سَبْعَة → "seven" : the number set before what it count… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سبغ sbgh To cover entirely, leaving nothing lacking: a fullness that covers everything, whether favors or armor. Uses 1. أَسْبَغَ عَلَى → "to lavish" : to pour upon someone favors… Read the entry → Sealed37 occurrences سبق sbq To arrive before: to get ahead of another in a race, or to precede in time, like a word or a writ set down before the act and governing it. Uses 1. سَبَقَ, يَسْبِقُ → "to… Read the entry → Sealed175 occurrences سبل sbl The way: the route one follows, on the earth as in the conduct of a life. It takes its value from the one it leads to or who proposes it. Uses 1. سَبِيل, سُبُل → "way", "… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences ستت stt The number six; its multiple, sixty. The text uses it above all for the six days of creation. Uses 1. سِتَّة → "six" : the duration of creation, in a recurring formula. «… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences ستر str To cover so as to withdraw from sight: to veil, to shelter, to hide oneself. Uses 1. مَسْتُور → "hidden" : what is itself covered: the veil one does not see. «حِجَابًۭا م… Read the entry → Sealed92 occurrences سجد sjd To prostrate: to set the face on the ground before another, the whole gesture by which one acknowledges his greatness; the place and the moment of this gesture take their… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سجر sjr To bring to the highest heat, to boiling or to blazing: one sea, all the seas, then people in the Fire. Uses 1. ٱلْمَسْجُور, سُجِّرَتْ → "set aboil" : the sea heated unti… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سجل sjl The binder: the holder in which writings are kept, and which closes over them. Uses 1. ٱلسِّجِلّ → "a binder" : the object that closes over what it holds; it serves as th… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences سجن sjn To hold shut in: prison, where someone is kept against his will; and, in the form سِجِّين, a name the text itself defines as "a written record". Uses 1. سَجَنَ, يُسْجَنُ,… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سجو sjw To grow still and spread out in silence, like the night which, once fallen, covers everything with its calm. Uses 1. سَجَىٰ → "to grow still" : the night that settles in… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سجيل sjyl Formed clay: an earth that has received its form and keeps it, the matter of the stones of punishment. Uses 1. سِجِّيل → "formed clay" : the matter of the stones that fal… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences سحب shb To pull along by dragging. The cloud is the mass the winds drag across the sky; in the passive, the verb says those who are dragged into the Fire. Uses 1. سَحَاب → "cloud… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سحت sht To consume unto annihilation: illicit gain, which gnaws at the one who feeds on it, and extirpation, which leaves nothing. Uses 1. ٱلسُّحْت → "illicit gain" : goods acqui… Read the entry → Sealed63 occurrences سحر shr To make one see something other than what is: illusion, and the one who produces it. The same word also names the last hours of the night, when darkness comes undone befo… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سحق shq Extreme remoteness: the far-off place into which one is swept, and remoteness pronounced against someone. Uses 1. سَحِيق → "far-off" : the place from which there is no re… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سحل shl The edge where water sets down what it carries: the shore. Uses 1. ٱلسَّاحِل → "the shore" : the point where the deep gives back what it carries off. «فَلْيُلْقِهِ ٱلْيَم… Read the entry → Sealed42 occurrences سخر skhr To dispose of another according to one's will: God subjects beings and things to the use of human beings; the one who scoffs makes another the object of his game. Uses 1.… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سخط skht To disavow a conduct and make it felt: displeasure, the opposite of approval. Uses 1. سَخَط → "displeasure" : the disavowal one incurs. «كَمَنۢ بَآءَ بِسَخَطٍۢ مِّنَ ٱللَ… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences سدد sdd To close the gap: to block a passage, or to aim true leaving no flaw between what is said and what is right. Uses 1. سَدّ, ٱلسَّدَّيْنِ → "barrier" : what closes a passag… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سدر sdr The lote tree, a thorny tree of dry lands: the text counts it among what grows, strips it of its thorns in the Garden, and makes it the landmark of the Utmost Boundary. U… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences سدس sds The number six, taken as a share or as a rank: the sixth of an inheritance, or the one who makes six in a counted group. Uses 1. ٱلسُّدُس → "a sixth" : the fixed share of… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سدى sda Left to oneself, with no aim and no account to render. Uses 1. سُدًى → "without purpose" : the state of one who would be abandoned with no end and no sequel. «أَن يُتْرَك… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سراب srab The mirage: the appearance of an absent reality, visible from afar, which vanishes entirely when one reaches it. Uses 1. سَرَاب → "mirage" : what one takes for water and… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سرادق sradq The enclosure that surrounds on every side, like the wall of a tent pitched around a space. Uses 1. سُرَادِق → "the enclosure" : the wall of the fire, which shuts in thos… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سرب srb To go one's way freely, unhindered: in the open, by day, or slipping away without leaving a hold. Uses 1. سَارِب → "to move openly" : to go in the open, by day. «وَسَارِب… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سربال srbal The tunic: the garment that wraps the body, to protect it or, turned around, to overwhelm it. Uses 1. سَرَابِيل → "tunics" : the garments that cover and guard the body. «… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سرج srj The torch: a source of light that burns, and illumines what lies in darkness. Uses 1. سِرَاج (the star) → "torch" : the sun, placed in the sky to give light. «وَجَعَلَ ٱل… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences سرح srh To let go freely, without holding back: to give a wife her freedom, or to lead the flock out to pasture. Uses 1. سَرَّحَ, تَسْرِيح → "to release", "a release" : to let th… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سرد srd To assemble in a regular sequence: to chain the rings of a coat of mail, one after another. Uses 1. ٱلسَّرْد → "the interlocking of the mail" : the ordered sequence of ri… Read the entry → Sealed44 occurrences سرر srr What is kept within, sheltered from sight: the secret one keeps or confides, and the well-being one carries inside, elation. Uses 1. سِرّ, أَسَرَّ, يُسِرُّ → "the secret"… Read the entry → Sealed23 occurrences سرع sr' To go quickly toward what one aims at. Said of God: the swiftness of His reckoning and of His sanction; said of human beings: speed toward good or toward evil. Uses 1. سَ… Read the entry → Sealed23 occurrences سرف srf To go beyond the measure: in spending, where it is waste, as in conduct, where it is excess. Uses 1. أَسْرَفَ, إِسْرَاف → "excess", "to be excessive" : the overstepping i… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences سرق srq To take in secret what is not one's own: to steal a good, or to snatch what is not meant for oneself. Uses 1. سَرَقَ, يَسْرِقْ, يَسْرِقْنَ → "to steal" : to appropriate a… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سرمد srmd Continuous, without interruption or end. Uses 1. سَرْمَدًا → "perpetual" : the night or the day that would never give way to the other. «إِن جَعَلَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمُ ٱلَ… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences سرى sra To travel by night: to set out under darkness, or to make someone set out by night; the night itself moves on in this way until it ebbs away. Uses 1. أَسْرِ, فَأَسْرِ → "… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سطح sth To make flat: to spread out a surface so that it is even and passable. Uses 1. سُطِحَتْ → "was laid flat" : the earth made flat, offered to sight as a fact of creation. «… Read the entry → Sealed16 occurrences سطر str To trace in lines: the writing aligned and recorded, which remains; in the plural أَسَاطِير, accounts set in lines, which the disowners call "legends of the ancients". Us… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سطو stw To assail someone violently, with a surge ready to strike. Uses 1. يَسْطُونَ بِـ → "to assault" : aggression on the point of breaking out. «يَكَادُونَ يَسْطُونَ بِٱلَّذِي… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سعد s'd To have a happy lot: the favourable outcome that awaits some on the Day, facing the wretchedness of others. Uses 1. سَعِيد → "the happy" : the one whose final lot is happ… Read the entry → Sealed19 occurrences سعر s'r To stoke a fire until it blazes: the inferno, name of the Fire that does not die down, and, by image, the inflamed mind. Uses 1. ٱلسَّعِير → "the Inferno" : proper name o… Read the entry → Sealed30 occurrences سعى s'a To move actively toward an aim: to endeavour for it by effort, good or bad, or to go to it with a hurried movement. Uses 1. سَعَىٰ, يَسْعَىٰ (effort) → "to endeavour" : t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سغب sghb Famine: a time when food is lacking to all. Uses 1. مَسْغَبَة → "famine" : the want that weighs on a whole day, not on a single person. «فِى يَوْمٍۢ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍۢ» — "o… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سفح sfh To let flow without restraint: blood shed outside the body, a union poured out beyond the bond that should contain it. Uses 1. مَسْفُوح → "spilled" : blood that flows out… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences سفر sfr To go out into the open: to leave the shelter of one's dwelling for the road, and, for light or a face, to show fully. Uses 1. سَفَر, أَسْفَار (the trips) → "journey" : t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سفع sf' To seize roughly, pulling toward oneself. Uses 1. لَنَسْفَعًا → "We will seize him roughly" : the seizing that strips away all pretension, by the forelock. «لَنَسْفَعًۢا… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سفك sfk To shed blood by violence. Uses 1. سَفَكَ ٱلدِّمَاء → "to shed blood" : the gesture itself: blood that flows. «وَيَسْفِكُ ٱلدِّمَآءَ» — "and shed blood" (2:30) «لَا تَسْف… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences سفل sfl The low: the lowest position, where the text, outside the battlefield, always places what it brings down. Uses 1. أَسْفَل → "lower", "from below" : the position, in the p… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سفن sfn The boat: the craft that carries on the water those who board it. Uses 1. سَفِينَة → "boat", "vessel" : the boat holed in the account of 18:71-79, Nuh's vessel (29:15). «… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences سفه sfh Foolishness: a failing judgment, which makes one act against one's own good, even when one knows. Uses 1. سَفِيه, ٱلسُّفَهَآء → "foolish", "the fools" : the one whose jud… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences سقط sqt To tumble: to leave one's place above and come down at once, without restraint; in the causative, to make tumble. Uses 1. سَقَطَ, تَسْقُطُ, سَاقِط → "to tumble" : the fal… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سقف sqf The roof: what covers from above, from a house to the sky. Uses 1. ٱلسَّقْف, سُقُف (the building) → "the roof", "roofs" : the covering of a human construction, which can… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سقم sqm To be stricken in one's body: to suffer from an ailment. Uses 1. سَقِيم → "unwell" : the state of one whom the ailment strikes, declared or observed. «إِنِّى سَقِيمٌۭ» —… Read the entry → Sealed25 occurrences سقى sqa To bring water to the one who needs it: to water a being or a land, or to ask for drink. Uses 1. سَقَىٰ, يَسْقِى, أَسْقَىٰ → "to water", "to give drink" : to give water t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سكب skb To pour without stopping: water that flows of itself, never running dry. Uses 1. مَسْكُوب → "flowing" : the water of the Garden, poured without end. «وَمَآءٍۢ مَّسْكُوبٍۢ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سكت skt To fall back into calm after agitation: said of anger that subsides and ceases to drive the one it held. Uses 1. سَكَتَ → "to subside" : anger falling back in the one it… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences سكر skr A disturbance that clouds perception: the intoxication of drink, and all that leads the gaze astray as it does. Uses 1. سُكَٰرَىٰ → "intoxicated" : those whose perception… Read the entry → Sealed69 occurrences سكن skn To settle and stay: to stop moving, whether in a place (to dwell), in the night (to rest) or within (tranquility); the destitute, مِسْكِين, bears the same name. Uses 1. س… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سلب slb To rob: to wrest from someone what he holds, with no way for him to recover it. Uses 1. يَسْلُبْ → "to rob" : to dispossess at a stroke, with no possible return. «وَإِن ي… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سلح slh Arms: what one carries on oneself to fight or to stay on guard. Uses 1. أَسْلِحَة → "arms" : the equipment of combat, kept even during the Contact. «وَلْيَأْخُذُوٓا۟ أَسْ… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سلخ slkh To remove a thing from what envelops it, as one takes off a skin: to divest oneself of it, or to strip it from another. Uses 1. ٱنسَلَخَ مِنْ → "to divest oneself of" : t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سلسبيل slsbyl Proper noun. The text gives it as the name of a spring of the Garden: "a spring therein named Salsabil". The translation writes the name: "Salsabil". Uses 1. سَلْسَبِيلًا… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سلسل slsl The chain: rings linked one to another, to fetter. Uses 1. سِلْسِلَة, سَلَٰسِل → "a chain", "chains" : the fetter prepared for those who disown, always joined to shackles… Read the entry → Sealed39 occurrences سلط slt To have a hold over: authority, power to act or proof that grounds, always received from another and never possessed by oneself. Uses 1. سُلْطَان (what grounds) → "author… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences سلف slf What is bygone: a closed time, which is not reopened, and what one did in that time, which remains acquired. Uses 1. مَا سَلَفَ, مَا قَدْ سَلَفَ → "what is bygone" : the… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سلق slq To strike with a cutting word: to assail someone with the tongue. Uses 1. سَلَقُوكُم → "they assail you" : the verbal assault, carried by sharp tongues. «سَلَقُوكُم بِأَل… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences سلك slk To make pass through a passage, or to pass through it oneself: to insert a thing into what receives it, to follow a way or to open it. Uses 1. سَلَكَ + object + فِى → "to… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سلل sll To draw gently out of a whole: the extract taken from a matter, and the one who slips away from a group unseen. Uses 1. سُلَٰلَة → "an extract" : a part drawn out of its… Read the entry → Sealed140 occurrences سلم slm To be whole, without flaw or division: the integrity of an intact thing, of a being wholly turned toward God, of a relation without breach, which is peace. Uses 1. أَسْلَ… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سلو slw Quails: the food given with manna to the sons of Israel. Uses 1. ٱلسَّلْوَىٰ → "quails" : always named with manna, in one formula. «وَأَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْكُمُ ٱلْمَنَّ وَٱلس… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سمد smd To remain heedless, head held high and mind elsewhere, before what ought to seize one. Uses 1. سَٰمِدُونَ → "while you remain heedless" : the indifference that completes… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سمر smr To converse by night: the night gathering where people talk among themselves. Uses 1. سَٰمِر → "conversing by night" : speech held among oneselves, at night. «سَٰمِرًۭا ت… Read the entry → Sealed185 occurrences سمع sm' To perceive by the ear, and to receive what one perceives: to hear, to listen, to make hear; hearing is the faculty, and God the All-Hearing. Uses 1. سَمِعَ, يَسْمَعُ → "… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سمك smk The built height of a structure, what one raises in constructing. Uses 1. سَمْك → "the vault" : the raised part of the built sky. «رَفَعَ سَمْكَهَا» — "elevated its vault… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سمم smm What passes through a narrow opening: the eye of the needle, and the torrid wind whose heat penetrates even into the pores. Uses 1. سَمّ → "the eye" : the narrowest openi… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سمن smn The fat of what is well fed: to be fat, to fatten; the opposite of lean. Uses 1. سِمَان, سَمِين → "fat" : the well-fed animal, a sign of abundance. «إِنِّىٓ أَرَىٰ سَبْعَ… Read the entry → Sealed493 occurrences سمو smw What rises and makes itself known: the sky, what is above all; the attribute, the mark that distinguishes a being; and, by the same gesture, to name and to fix. Uses 1. ٱ… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences سنبل snbl The ear of grain: the head of the stalk, which bears the grains grouped together and keeps them. Uses 1. سُنۢبُلَة, سَنَابِل, سُنۢبُلَات → "ear", "ears" : the unit of gra… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سند snd To be propped against a support: to stand by something other than oneself. Uses 1. مُسَنَّدَة → "propped-up" : pieces of wood that hold only by what supports them. «كَأَن… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سندس snds Fine silk: the light fabric in which the people of the Garden are clothed, always named with brocade. Uses 1. سُندُس → "fine silk" : the fabric of the green clothes of th… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سنم snm What rises above: proper name of a spring of the Garden, Tasnim, from which those brought near drink. Uses 1. تَسْنِيم → "Tasnim" : the spring from which the mixture is d… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences سنن snn To shape: to give a clear form, which is kept and reproduced identically. Hence the molded mud, the norm followed from age to age, and the tooth. Uses 1. مَسْنُون → "mold… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سنه snh To let time do its work: what waits through the years and is changed by them. The only use denies it. Uses 1. يَتَسَنَّهْ → "to wait" : to undergo the waiting of the year… Read the entry → Sealed20 occurrences سنو snw The year: the length of a full cycle, counted by number, from a man's life to the thousand years of a divine day. Once, the word سَنَا says the flash, that of lightning.… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سهر shr To stay awake, to keep watch; ٱلسَّاهِرَة names the open surface where those who slept in death find themselves awake. Uses 1. ٱلسَّاهِرَة → "the surface of the world" :… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سهل shl The plain: flat, open land, where one builds with ease, as opposed to the mountain. Uses 1. سُهُولِهَا → "the plains" : the open ground where palaces rise. «تَتَّخِذُونَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سهم shm To take part in a drawing of lots: to leave to the lot the designation of the one on whom it will fall. Uses 1. سَاهَمَ → "to take part in the drawing of lots" : to take… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سهو shw To be absent-minded: to perform a thing, or to live, without being present in it. Uses 1. سَاهُون → "absent-minded" : the inner absence beneath an act or a life that goes… Read the entry → Sealed167 occurrences سوء sw' What is bad and does harm: the evil one commits or suffers, what vexes, and the nakedness that it is bad to expose. Uses 1. ٱلسُّوٓء → "evil", "the worst" : evil done or… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سواع swa' Proper noun of a deity of the people of Nuh. The translation keeps the name: "Suwa'". Uses 1. سُوَاع → "Suwa'" : one of the five names the people of Nuh refuse to leave.… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سوح swh The open space before the dwellings: the precinct where a people lives. Uses 1. سَاحَة → "the courtyard" : the near, inhabited place where the punishment descends. «فَإِذ… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences سود swd Two uses that the text does not link: black, the colour of things and of the face that darkens; and the chief, the one who has authority over others. Uses 1. أَسْوَد, سُو… Read the entry → Sealed17 occurrences سور swr The enclosure that surrounds and closes: the encircling rampart, the bracelet around the wrist, and the surah, a closed section of the text. Uses 1. سُور → "rampart" : th… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سوط swt The whip; in its single use, the punishment itself, poured out at once. Uses 1. سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ → "a scourge of punishment" : the punishment that strikes, poured upon the… Read the entry → Sealed48 occurrences سوع sw' A fixed point of time, which comes with no one able to advance or delay it: the hour; defined, ٱلسَّاعَة, the Hour of the Day. Uses 1. ٱلسَّاعَة → "the Hour" : the moment… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سوغ swgh To pass easily down the throat: what is drunk without resistance, or what one cannot manage to swallow. Uses 1. سَآئِغ → "pleasant to drink" : the liquid that passes with… Read the entry → Sealed17 occurrences سوق swq To drive ahead of oneself toward a goal, as one drives a herd; the leg and the stalk, which bear walking and growth, and the market, where goods are driven, come from the… Read the entry → Sealed15 occurrences سوم swm To expose continuously to a state that can be seen: the mark one bears and by which one is recognized, the pasture where beasts go, the punishment inflicted without respi… Read the entry → Sealed83 occurrences سوى swa To set upright: to give a thing its right measure, to make it equal to what it must be or to another; in the reflexive form, to stand upright, to establish oneself. Uses… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سيب syb To let go freely. The only use is a technical name, sa'iba: a category of livestock dedicated and let loose, which the text denies God instituted; the translation transcr… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سيح syh To go freely from one place to another, without hindrance. Uses 1. سِيحُوا۟ → "to move about freely" : to come and go in the land, during a granted delay. «فَسِيحُوا۟ فِى… Read the entry → Sealed27 occurrences سير syr To move across a distance: to travel and traverse, or to be set in motion; and from there, the course, the state in which a thing goes. Uses 1. سِيرُوا۟, يَسِيرُوا۟ → "to… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سيل syl The flowing of a liquid in mass: the flood, and what pours from a spring; a gift when measured, ruin when it breaks what held it. Uses 1. سَالَ, أَسَالَ → "to flow", "to… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سيناء syna' Place name. The text so names the mount from which comes the tree that gives oil. The translation writes "Sinai". Uses 1. سَيْنَآء → "Sinai" : the Mount, named with ٱلطُّ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سينين synyn Place name, joined to طُور: the mountain of Sinai, by which an oath is sworn. The translation writes "Mount Sinai". Uses 1. طُورِ سِينِينَ → "Mount Sinai" : the mountain… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences شئم sh'm The left side, opposite the right side. The text uses it only to place, on the last day, those who have disowned. Uses 1. ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَة → "the left side" : always in "the… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences شئن sh'n What occupies someone and holds him: the state he is in, the matter he is engaged in, on the scale of a person as on the scale of God. Uses 1. شَأْن (the state) → "situat… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences شبه shbh Resemblance: two things close enough to be taken one for the other, without being identical for all that. Uses 1. تَشَٰبَهَ, تَشَٰبَهَتْ → "to resemble one another" : thi… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences شتت shtt To be scattered, without cohesion: elements dispersed where one would expect a whole. Uses 1. شَتَّىٰ, لَشَتَّىٰ → "of every kind", "divided", "dispersed" : what is scatt… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شتو shtw Winter, the cold season. The text names it with summer, to say the whole year. Uses 1. ٱلشِّتَآء → "winter" : named with ٱلصَّيْف, summer: the two journeys of the year. «… Read the entry → Sealed27 occurrences شجر shjr The tree, the plant that rises in branches from a root. Once only, the verb names what has grown up between people and become entangled there: the controversy. Uses 1. شَ… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences شحح shhh Greed: the disposition of the Self that keeps for itself and covets, to the point of refusing all sharing. Uses 1. ٱلشُّحّ, شُحَّ نَفْسِهِۦ → "greed" : a disposition pres… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شحم shhm The fat of the animal, distinguished by the place it occupies in the body. Uses 1. شُحُوم → "fats" : the fat of cattle and sheep, prohibited to the Reoriented, with a few… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences شحن shhn To load a vessel until it is full: the word qualifies only the vessel, full of those it carries. Uses 1. ٱلْمَشْحُون → "laden" : the filled vessel, in a formula that neve… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences شخص shkhs To become fixed: the gaze that stops, wide open, unable to turn away from what is happening. Uses 1. تَشْخَصُ, شَٰخِصَة → "to be fixed" : the sights seized by the event o… Read the entry → Sealed102 occurrences شدد shdd Force carried to its highest degree: what binds and holds together, or what strikes with intensity. Uses 1. شَدِيد → "severe"; "formidable" in 13:13 and 59:14, "vehement"… Read the entry → Sealed39 occurrences شرب shrb To take in a liquid: to drink. The noun names what one drinks, the place where one drinks and the turn at which one drinks; figuratively, the root names a thing made to s… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences شرح shrh To open by widening: to give the chest room, so that it may receive. Uses 1. شَرَحَ, يَشْرَحْ, ٱشْرَحْ, نَشْرَحْ → "to open the chest" : to widen the inner space, to bein… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شرد shrd To scatter by putting to flight, so that the rout serves as a warning to those who come behind. Uses 1. فَشَرِّدْ بِهِم → "scatter through them" : the order given in war:… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شرذم shrdhm A small band: a group named by its smallness, to belittle it. Uses 1. شِرْذِمَة → "a small band" : Fir'awn's word for the sons of Israel as they leave; the adjective قَلِ… Read the entry → Sealed31 occurrences شرر shrr Ill: what harms, wherever the damage comes from. The concrete word شَرَر, sparks, gives its image: what springs from the fire and strikes. Uses 1. شَرّ, ٱلشَّرّ → "ill",… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شرط shrt The sign that announces: what precedes an event and makes it known in advance, without being the event itself. Uses 1. أَشْرَاط → "precursory signs" : the indications, al… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences شرع shr' To open a direct access: the water where the fish come into the open, and, from there, the way opened in the Law to be followed. Uses 1. شُرَّعًا → "in the open" : the fi… Read the entry → Sealed17 occurrences شرق shrq The rising of light: the side where the sun rises, and the brightness that spreads. Uses 1. ٱلْمَشْرِق → "the east" : the side of the rising, almost always joined to the… Read the entry → Sealed168 occurrences شرك shrk To have a share together in one same thing. Said of God, it is to give another a share of what belongs to Him alone: obedience, the Law, creation, guidance. Uses 1. أَشْر… Read the entry → Sealed25 occurrences شرى shra To exchange a good for a price: the same root names both sides of the market, giving up (selling) or taking for oneself (buying). Uses 1. شَرَىٰ, يَشْرِى → "to sell" : th… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences شطء sht' What stands or comes out at the edge of a thing: the shoot a seed puts forth, the side of a valley. Uses 1. شَطْء → "shoot" : the first stalk a seed puts forth. «كَزَرْعٍ… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences شطر shtr To set one's course for a point: the orientation one takes toward a fixed place, distinct from the place itself. Uses 1. وَلِّ وَجْهَكَ شَطْرَ → "to set one's course for"… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences شطط shtt To go too far: the deviation that exceeds the measure, in speech or in judgment. Uses 1. شَطَط → "an enormous excess", "excessive words" : speech that goes beyond what is… Read the entry → Sealed88 occurrences شطن shtn To turn aside from the way: the root names the one who diverts, by embellishing evil to make it desirable. He is named by what he does: "the Diverter". Uses 1. ٱلشَّيْطَٰ… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences شعب sh'b What branches out from a common trunk: the nations born of a single couple, the branches of a shadow. The proper name Shu'ayb is linked to the root; the translation keeps… Read the entry → Sealed38 occurrences شعر sh'r To sense: what the body takes in, and what one makes others sense. Hence what is instituted to be sensed, the perceptible marker, and the one who acts on the sensibility… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شعرى sh'ra Proper name of a star: Sirius. The text names it only once, to say that God is its Guardian. Uses 1. ٱلشِّعْرَىٰ → "Sirius" : the brightest star of the night sky. «وَأَنَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شعل sh'l To catch fire and spread: the blaze that takes everything. Uses 1. ٱشْتَعَلَ → "to blaze" : said of the head that whiteness overruns, like a fire. «وَٱشْتَعَلَ ٱلرَّأْسُ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شغف shghf To reach as far as the heart's envelope: a love that does not stay on the surface and takes hold of the whole being. Uses 1. شَغَفَهَا حُبًّا → "to captivate with love" :… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences شغل shghl To occupy: to take up the attention or the strength to the point of standing in for everything else. Uses 1. شُغُل → "occupied" : the happy occupation of the Garden, whic… Read the entry → Sealed31 occurrences شفع shf' To join to another so as to make a pair: to join one's voice to another's to plead his cause, or the number that goes by two. Uses 1. شَفَعَ, يَشْفَعُ → "to intercede" :… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences شفق shfq Apprehension: the anxious and watchful expectation of what is coming. The same word once names the twilight glow, with no link of meaning to the first. Uses 1. مُشْفِق, أ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شفه shfh The lip: the organ that closes the mouth and shapes speech. Uses 1. شَفَتَيْن → "two lips" : named with the eyes and the tongue among the gifts made to the human being. «… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences شفو shfw The extreme edge: the last limit before the fall. Uses 1. شَفَا → "the edge" : always followed by what opens below: a pit of fire, a ravine about to cave in. «وَكُنتُمْ ع… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences شفى shfa To make sound what suffers: healing, of the body as of what is in the chests. Uses 1. شَفَىٰ, يَشْفِى → "to heal" : to restore health; God is always its subject. «وَإِذَا… Read the entry → Sealed28 occurrences شقق shqq To split in two: to open a matter, or to open a division between people; from the same image come the hardship that costs and the distance that separates. Uses 1. ٱنشَقَّ… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences شقو shqw Wretchedness, the opposite of happiness: the hardship one falls into outside guidance, whose extreme is the Fire. Uses 1. شَقِىّ, شَقُوا۟ → "wretched", "to be wretched" :… Read the entry → Sealed75 occurrences شكر shkr To acknowledge the blessing received and to answer it: to be grateful; the opposite of disowning. Uses 1. شَكَرَ, يَشْكُرُ, ٱشْكُرْ → "to be grateful", "to acknowledge" :… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شكس shks To be in disagreement with one another: to dispute over the same thing. Uses 1. مُتَشَٰكِسُون → "in disagreement" : partners who dispute over the same man. «رَّجُلًۭا فِي… Read the entry → Sealed15 occurrences شكك shkk Doubt: not holding a thing to be true, remaining without certainty about it. Uses 1. فِى شَكٍّ مِّنْ, شَكٌّ → "in doubt about", "doubt" : the state of one who does not ho… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences شكل shkl The proper form of a being or a thing: what it corresponds to, its manner of being or its kind. Uses 1. شَاكِلَة → "own manner" : each one's way of being, from which his… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences شكو shkw To carry one's pain toward one alone: the complaint addressed to a precise recipient; and, through the noun مِشْكَوٰة, the niche, a hollow that gathers a light into one p… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شمئز shm'z To shrink with revulsion: the movement of the core that tightens before what it refuses. Uses 1. ٱشْمَأَزَّتْ → "to shrink with revulsion" : a refusal that shows in the m… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شمت shmt To rejoice at another's misfortune: the malicious joy of an enemy at the fall of the one he fights. Uses 1. تُشْمِتْ → "to let … gloat over me" : the causative form: to g… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شمخ shmkh To rise high: the height that dominates what surrounds it. Uses 1. شَٰمِخَٰت → "lofty" : said of the anchors placed upon the earth, among the favours recalled. «وَجَعَلْن… Read the entry → Sealed33 occurrences شمس shms The sun, the star of the day, almost always named with the moon. Uses 1. ٱلشَّمْس → "the sun" : the subjected star, which runs according to a reckoning. «وَسَخَّرَ ٱلشَّم… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences شمل shml Two uses that the text keeps apart: to contain within oneself, and the left, the side opposite the right. Uses 1. ٱشْتَمَلَ عَلَى → "to contain" : to hold within oneself.… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences شنء shn' Hatred: the hostility that drives one to act against the one hated. Uses 1. شَنَـَٔان → "hatred" : hatred borne toward a people, which can turn one aside from just conduc… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences شهب shhb The streak of fire: a bright flame that speeds to its target, or that one carries along. Uses 1. شِهَاب, شُهُب → "blazing projectile" : the streak of fire that pursues wh… Read the entry → Sealed160 occurrences شهد shhd To be present at a fact and answer for it: to see with one's own eyes, then bear witness to what one has seen. Uses 1. شَهِدَ, يَشْهَدُ → "to testify", "to attest", "to w… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences شهر shhr The month: a fixed unit of count, by which the text measures the durations it prescribes; its calculations take it as thirty days. Uses 1. شَهْر, ٱلشَّهْر → "month", "the… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences شهق shhq The hoarse sound of a forced breath: man's sobbing in distress, the roaring of the Fire. Uses 1. شَهِيق (man) → "sobbing" : the sound of those who will be wretched, joine… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences شهو shhw To desire: the movement of appetite toward an object. The word does not judge; it is the object and the conduct that make desire a straying or a promise. Uses 1. ٱشْتَهَى… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شوب shwb What is added to a thing by cutting it with another: a brew poured on top. Uses 1. شَوْب → "a brew" : the boiling water poured on top of the meal from the tree of Zaqqoum… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences شور shwr To show to another: to submit one's view to the view of others so as to decide together, or to point with the hand at what one does not say. Uses 1. شَاوَرَ, تَشَاوُر, شُ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شوظ shwz The sheaf of fire: a fire that bursts out and is thrown toward its target. Uses 1. شُوَاظ → "sheaf of fire" : the fire sent upon the two kinds of beings. «يُرْسَلُ عَلَيْ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شوك shwk The thorn; by image, armed force: what pricks and wounds on contact. Uses 1. غَيْرَ ذَاتِ ٱلشَّوْكَةِ → "without arms" : the group without a thorn, opposed to the armed g… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences شوى shwa The action of fire on what is exposed to it: to burn the surface; as a noun, the skin covering the skull. Uses 1. يَشْوِى → "to scald" : a burning water that reaches the… Read the entry → Sealed519 occurrences شىء sha' Good pleasure and its object: the verb شَآءَ says what it pleases someone to set, the noun شَىْء the thing so set, whatever it may be. Uses 1. يَشَآءُ, شَآءَ (God as subj… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences شيب shyb To whiten with age: hair turning white, the visible sign of old age. Uses 1. شَيْب → "white" : the whiteness that takes over the head. «وَٱشْتَعَلَ ٱلرَّأْسُ شَيْبًۭا» —… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences شيخ shykh The old man: advanced age, the last named stage of human life, with no blame laid on it. Uses 1. شَيْخ → "old man" : the aged man, often named to say what he can no longe… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences شيد shyd To build high and strong: the raised and fortified edifice, which the text shows does not protect from what is decreed. Uses 1. مُشَيَّدَة → "impregnable" : towers built… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences شيع shy' To follow and to spread: the group formed by those who follow the same one, and the thing that passes from one to another. Uses 1. شِيعَة, شِيَع → "faction", "factions" :… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences صبب sbb To pour in a single movement, from above downward: a liquid let fall in floods, or a punishment that comes down. Uses 1. صَبَبْنَا, صَبًّا → "to pour" : the water poured… Read the entry → Sealed45 occurrences صبح sbh The moment when night gives way to day: dawn, morning; from there, to find oneself in a new state in the morning, and the lamp, which makes day in the night. Uses 1. ٱلصُ… Read the entry → Sealed103 occurrences صبر sbr To hold firm in waiting or in trial, without slackening or giving way. Uses 1. صَبَرَ, يَصْبِرُ, ٱصْبِرْ → "to be patient" : to hold on against what weighs or is slow to… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences صبع sb' The finger. Both uses show one gesture: putting one's fingers in one's ears so as not to hear. Uses 1. أَصَٰبِع → "fingers" : fingers thrust into the ears, closing the pa… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences صبغ sbgh To impregnate: what penetrates a substance and gives it its colour or its flavour. Uses 1. صِبْغَة → "the dye", "to dye" : the imprint God gives, and that none gives bett… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences صبو sbw Two uses under one root, which the text does not bring together: to let oneself go toward what attracts, and the child in its very first age. Uses 1. أَصْبُ → "to yearn t… Read the entry → Sealed97 occurrences صحب shb To accompany: to be with someone in one place, on one road or in one lot. The companion shares the condition of the one or the thing he accompanies. Uses 1. أَصْحَٰب + de… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences صحف shf What is spread out to be offered: recorded content, unfolded to be read and passed on, not the material that bears it; once, the wide dish that is passed around. Uses 1.… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences صخخ skhkh The cry that deafens. Its only use makes it a name of the Day: "the Deafening Blast", named by what it does. Uses 1. ٱلصَّآخَّة → "the Deafening Blast" : a feminine activ… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences صخر skhr Hard rock: a compact mineral mass, which holds what it encloses and yields only to the tool. Uses 1. ٱلصَّخْرَة, صَخْرَة, ٱلصَّخْر → "rock", "the rock" : a block of stone… Read the entry → Sealed42 occurrences صدد sdd To stand in the way: to bar someone from the way, or to hold back from it oneself. The noun صَدِيد, apart, names the fluid that oozes from a wound. Uses 1. صَدَّ عَن سَبِ… Read the entry → Sealed46 occurrences صدر sdr The front of a being, from which one sets out: the chest, where a being holds what it keeps within; as a verb, to go out, to leave the watering place. Uses 1. صَدْر, صُدُ… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences صدع sd' To split a hard matter, with a stroke that opens it: the mountain, the earth, the head; and speech that splits the silence, proclaimed openly. Uses 1. ٱصْدَعْ → "to procl… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences صدف sdf To present one's flank: the face that draws aside from what faces it. Said of a being, it is to veer away from the signs; said of the land, it names the two slopes of a p… Read the entry → Sealed155 occurrences صدق sdq To be true: the word that answers to reality, and the person whose word and commitment hold. Hence to declare true, to confirm, and the gift that bears witness: charity,… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences صدى sda To come face to face with someone: to go out to him. The noun تَصْدِيَة (8:35) is read by the translation with ص د د, as a barring. Uses 1. تَصَدَّىٰ → "to go out to" : t… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences صرح srh What stands clear and shows itself: the belvedere, a high and open building, made to see and to be seen. Uses 1. صَرْح → "belvedere" : Sulayman's building of crystal, and… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences صرخ srkh To cry out in distress in order to be rescued; and, on the other side, to answer that cry. Uses 1. يَسْتَصْرِخُ → "to cry out for aid" : to send toward someone the cry of… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences صرر srr To tighten and hold tight: to stay knotted to what one does, the cold that grips, the shrill cry from a tightened throat. Uses 1. أَصَرَّ, يُصِرُّ عَلَى → "to persist" :… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences صرصر srsr The icy and violent wind, whose cold bites and whose noise roars: the word names only the wind sent upon the Aad. Uses 1. رِيحًا صَرْصَرًا, رِيحٍ صَرْصَرٍ → "an icy wind"… Read the entry → Sealed45 occurrences صرط srt The path: the traced way, one and straight, that leads where guidance leads. Uses 1. صِرَٰط مُّسْتَقِيم → "a straight path" : the path qualified by its straightness; it i… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences صرع sr' To be struck down to the ground at a single blow, never to rise again. Uses 1. صَرْعَىٰ → "felled to the ground" : bodies thrown to the ground by the punishment, all toge… Read the entry → Sealed30 occurrences صرف srf To turn a thing out of its direction: to turn away or avert a gaze, an evil, a person; in the intensive form, to turn one same content into diverse forms. Uses 1. صَرَفَ… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences صرم srm To cut clean what holds to its support: to gather in the fruit by cutting it; and the land where everything has been cut away, reduced to scorched ground. Uses 1. لَيَصْر… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences صعد s'd The movement upward: to climb, to rise, often with effort; the noun صَعِيد names what has risen to the surface, the top layer that crops out, without the text naming its… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences صعر s'r To twist the face in disdain: to turn one's cheek away from those who are present, the bodily gesture that says contempt. Uses 1. تُصَعِّرْ → "to turn one's cheek away" :… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences صعق s'q To be struck by a sudden blow that fells: the thunderbolt, and the state of the one it strikes. Uses 1. ٱلصَّٰعِقَة, ٱلصَّوَٰعِق → "the thunderbolt" : the blow from the s… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences صغر sghr To be small: the smallness of a thing, and the smallness imposed on someone, which diminishes him. Uses 1. صَغِير, أَصْغَر → "small", "smaller" : almost always with its c… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences صغو sghw To incline out of the axis: the centre of awareness that lets itself bend toward what draws it, and leaves uprightness. Uses 1. تَصْغَىٰ → "to bend toward" : to let onese… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences صفا sfa Place name: Safa, named with Marwa among the perceptible markers of God. Uses 1. ٱلصَّفَا → "Safa" : one of the two places the visitor of the House may visit. «إِنَّ ٱلصَ… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences صفح sfh To turn the flat side: to turn the page on a wrong, without retort or reproach, and not to come back to it; the noun names the page itself. Uses 1. ٱصْفَحْ, يَصْفَحُوا۟,… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences صفد sfd The iron that binds: the bonds that hold together beings subjected to a force. Uses 1. ٱلْأَصْفَاد → "fetters" : the shackles, always with beings bound to one another. «م… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences صفر sfr Yellow: the vivid colour of a beast, and the colour taken by what dries up. Uses 1. صَفْرَآء, صُفْر → "yellow" : the colour itself, vivid or fiery. «إِنَّهَا بَقَرَةٌۭ صَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences صفصف sfsf A flat and bare expanse, without any relief. Uses 1. صَفْصَف → "level" ("a level plain") : the surface that nothing raises or hollows. «فَيَذَرُهَا قَاعًۭا صَفْصَفًۭا» —… Read the entry → Sealed14 occurrences صفف sff To set in rank: to place side by side, in an aligned order. Uses 1. صَفًّا → "in ranks" : beings who stand or advance side by side. «وَعُرِضُوا۟ عَلَىٰ رَبِّكَ صَفًّۭا» —… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences صفن sfn To stand at rest, in a mastered stance: the pose of the well-bred horse at rest, ready without being launched. Uses 1. ٱلصَّٰفِنَٰت → "standing" : horses standing still,… Read the entry → Sealed17 occurrences صفو sfw To draw out of a whole its clear part: the smooth rock that nothing covers, refined honey, and, for beings, to choose. Uses 1. ٱصْطَفَىٰ, يَصْطَفِى → "to choose" : God dr… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences صكك skk To strike with a sharp blow. The only use names the gesture of striking one's face. Uses 1. صَكَّتْ → "to strike one's face" : the body's reaction to an announcement beyo… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences صلب slb Two uses under one root, which the text does not bring together: to fix a body on a support for execution, and the loins, from which offspring come. Uses 1. صَلَبَ, يُصَل… Read the entry → Sealed180 occurrences صلح slh To be sound: to function as it should, without corruption. صلح is the opposite of فَسَدَ, and the text sets the two words against each other in the same sentence. Uses 1.… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences صلد sld Bare and hard: the stone that nothing covers any longer. Uses 1. صَلْد → "bare" : the state of the stone once what covered it has been carried off. «فَتَرَكَهُۥ صَلْدًۭا»… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences صلصل slsl The sound a dry material gives when struck: the resonant clay from which the human being is created. Uses 1. صَلْصَٰل → "resonant clay" : dried clay, which rings like pot… Read the entry → Sealed98 occurrences صلو slw What links and puts in contact: the bond with God, made and then kept over time, and the contact that goes from God, His Agents or the messenger toward people. Uses 1. أَ… Read the entry → Sealed25 occurrences صلى sla To be exposed to fire, in direct contact with its burning: to burn in it, or to warm oneself at it. Uses 1. صَلِىَ, يَصْلَى → "to burn (in)" : to undergo the fire; the pl… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences صمت smt To keep silent: the absence of speech where a call could be made. Uses 1. صَٰمِتُونَ → "to remain silent" : to utter no call, facing the one who calls. «أَدَعَوْتُمُوهُمْ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences صمد smd The Full: the One to whom all turn in need, and who Himself has no lack to fill. The translation renders "the Impenetrable". Uses 1. ٱلصَّمَد → "the Impenetrable" : a nam… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences صمع sm' The place of retreat: the hermitage, named first among the places where the name of God is mentioned. Uses 1. صَوَٰمِع → "hermitages" : the first of the four places of wo… Read the entry → Sealed15 occurrences صمم smm To be deaf: to let speech in no longer. The text makes it a state one enters, can leave, and can fall back into. Uses 1. أَصَمّ, صُمّ → "deaf", "the deaf" : often joined… Read the entry → Sealed20 occurrences صنع sn' To fabricate, to work with skill: to give a material the form of a piece of work; and, by extension, the whole of what one does, which God knows. Uses 1. صَنَعَ, يَصْنَعُ… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences صنم snm The idol: the fabricated figure before which one stays and which one obeys, distinct from the deity made of it. Uses 1. أَصْنَام → "idols" : the object obeyed, taken as a… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences صنو snw Stems that come from one stock: palms growing clustered, as opposed to those that grow alone. Uses 1. صِنْوَان, غَيْرُ صِنْوَان → "clustered", "standing alone" : two ways… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences صهر shr To fuse together what was separate: the heat that melts, the kinship by marriage that brings one lineage into another. Uses 1. يُصْهَرُ → "to melt" : the heat that undoes… Read the entry → Sealed76 occurrences صوب swb To reach the mark: to come and touch one's aim or object, whether a blow, a misfortune, a good or the rain. Uses 1. أَصَابَ, يُصِيبُ → "to strike", "to betide" : what com… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences صوت swt The voice: the sound a being carries, whose pitch shows the attitude of the one who speaks. Uses 1. صَوْت, أَصْوَٰت → "the voice" : the voice one raises or lowers, and th… Read the entry → Sealed19 occurrences صور swr To give form: to trace the proper outline that makes a being recognisable; the same word names the Horn, the instrument whose blast opens the Day. Uses 1. صَوَّرَ, يُصَوِ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences صوع sw' The vessel that serves as a measure. Uses 1. صُوَاع → "the measuring vessel" : the royal measure of grain, object of the ruse in Yusuf's account. «نَفْقِدُ صُوَاعَ ٱلْمَل… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences صوف swf Wool: the fibre given by the beasts of the flock, from which furnishings and use are drawn. Uses 1. أَصْوَاف → "wool" : the first of the three materials drawn from the be… Read the entry → Sealed14 occurrences صوم swm To abstain of one's own will: to hold back, for a set time, what one could take or say. Uses 1. ٱلصِّيَام, صَوْم → "abstention" : restraint itself, prescribed or vowed; t… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences صيح syh The cry: a single, brief sound that strikes at once, with no delay between the warning and its execution. Uses 1. ٱلصَّيْحَة → "the Cry" : the cry that seizes the annihil… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences صيد syd To hunt: the pursuit of game, and the game itself. Uses 1. ٱلصَّيْد, صَيْدُ ٱلْبَحْرِ → "the hunt", "game" : the activity, or what it takes; the hunt of the sea and that… Read the entry → Sealed29 occurrences صير syr To end up: to reach the end of a path. ٱلْمَصِير is that end, the destination, always final. Uses 1. ٱلْمَصِير → "the destination" : the end toward God, or the evil end,… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences صيص sys The high place where one entrenches oneself: the stronghold, from which one can be dislodged. Uses 1. صَيَاصِى → "strongholds" : the fortified places from which allies of… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences صيف syf Summer, the hot season, named with winter. Uses 1. ٱلصَّيْف → "summer" : the season that, with winter, makes up the cycle of the journey. «رِحْلَةَ ٱلشِّتَآءِ وَٱلصَّيْفِ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ضئن d'n Rams and ewes: the species named only once, male and female, in the inventory of livestock created in pairs. Uses 1. ٱلضَّأْن → "of rams and ewes" : the species, male and… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ضبح dbh The loud breath of a course run at full strength: the panting heard from those that rush forward. Uses 1. ضَبْحًا → "panting" : the state of those that run, named at the… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences ضجع dj' The place where the body lies down: the bed one shares, the one one leaves to invoke, and the one where one ends up lying. Uses 1. ٱلْمَضَاجِع → "the beds" : the bed of r… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences ضحك dhk To laugh: the laughter that mocks as well as the laughter that rejoices. The word does not change; the scene tells which. Uses 1. ضَحِكَ, يَضْحَكُ → "to laugh", "to laugh… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences ضحو dhw Full sunlight: the hour of the forenoon when the day is high and clear, and exposure to its heat. Uses 1. ضُحًى, ضُحَىٰهَا → "morning brightness", "morning", "broad morni… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ضحى dha The fullness of the morning, when the sun has risen and the light spreads: the text makes it the object of an oath, facing the night that grows still. Uses 1. ٱلضُّحَىٰ →… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ضدد ddd To stand on the opposite side: what was on someone's side passes against him, as an adversary. Uses 1. ضِدّ (كَانَ عَلَيْهِ ضِدًّا) → "to stand against as adversaries" :… Read the entry → Sealed58 occurrences ضرب drb To produce by a pressed and repeated gesture: to multiply an example or a number, to multiply one's steps across the land, to apply one thing onto another until it is fix… Read the entry → Sealed74 occurrences ضرر drr An injury that weighs on someone: to cause it is to harm; to undergo it is to be touched by harm, and, at the extreme, compelled, with no other choice. Uses 1. ضَرَّ, يَض… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences ضرع dr' To beseech: to address God out of distress, lowered before Him. The same radical names a plant, ضَرِيع, with no link of meaning. Uses 1. تَضَرَّعَ, يَتَضَرَّعُ, يَضَّرَّع… Read the entry → Sealed52 occurrences ضعف d'f Two branches under one radical: lack of strength (ضَعْف, ضَعِيف), and the double (ضِعْف, ضَاعَفَ), a quantity brought a second time. The vocalisation separates them, and… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences ضغث dghth Strands gathered without order into a handful: in the proper sense the bundle held in the hand, in the figurative sense a jumble of dreams in which nothing stands apart.… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ضغن dghn Rancor held within, unconfessed, which trial ends by bringing out. Uses 1. أَضْغَٰن → "malice" : hostility held inside; the text uses it only with the verb "to bring out"… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ضفدع dfd' The frog: named only once, among the plagues sent upon the clan of Fir'awn as detailed signs. Uses 1. ٱلضَّفَادِع → "the frogs" : the fourth of the five plagues of the li… Read the entry → Sealed191 occurrences ضلل dll To lose the right direction: to stray from the way, literally or in conduct, or to make another lose it; error is the state of one who no longer has a path. Uses 1. ضَلَّ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ضمر dmr Made lean by effort: the mount that the length of the road has worn down. Uses 1. ضَامِر → "lean mount" : the travelling beast, marked by the distance covered. «يَأْتُوكَ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ضمم dmm To press to oneself: to bring a limb back against the body. Uses 1. ٱضْمُمْ → "press" : the command addressed to Moussa, for the hand or for the wing. «وَٱضْمُمْ يَدَكَ إ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ضنك dnk Narrowness: a constricted life, lacking room. Uses 1. ضَنك → "straitened" : describes the existence of one who turns away from the remembrance. «فَإِنَّ لَهُۥ مَعِيشَةًۭ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ضنن dnn To hold back jealously what one has, and refuse to give it. Uses 1. ضَنِين → "grudging with" : one who keeps for himself; the word is said only once, and denied, of the m… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ضهء dh' To reproduce a model already given by others: to say in turn what has already been said, adding nothing to it. Uses 1. يُضَٰهِـُٔونَ → "to imitate" : to take up the sayin… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences ضوء dw' To spread a light that lets one see and move forward: the fire that lights up its surroundings, the lightning that opens the way, the sun made a brightness. Uses 1. أَضَآ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ضير dyr Hurt: what might reach someone, here denied in a word before the threat. Uses 1. لَا ضَيْرَ → "No hurt!" : the denial of any feared hurt. «قَالُوا۟ لَا ضَيْرَ» — "They sa… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ضيز dyz Skewed in its distribution: a division unequal by its very structure, not a mere difference of appreciation. Uses 1. ضِيزَىٰ → "inequitable" : qualifies a division; the w… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences ضيع dy' To let dissipate what should have been kept: the text denies it of God with regard to faith, deeds and their reward, and states it of a generation with regard to the Cont… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences ضيف dyf The guest: one who is received at someone's home, and whose welcome binds the one who receives him. Uses 1. ضَيْف → "guests" : the envoys received by Ibrahim, then by Lut… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences ضيق dyq To become narrow: a space, or a chest, closes in under a weight until no room is left. Uses 1. ضَيِّق → "narrow" : a place, or a chest, with no room. «يَجْعَلْ صَدْرَهُۥ… Read the entry → 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 → Sealed1 occurrences ظعن z'n To break camp: the moment one leaves a place to set out again, set against the encampment. Uses 1. ظَعْن → "departure" : the day one folds the house to set out again, nam… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ظفر zfr To hold with a firm and whole grip: the nail of a single piece, and the victory that puts the adversary at the other's mercy. Uses 1. ظُفُر → "hoof" : the nail left whole… Read the entry → Sealed33 occurrences ظلل zll To cover while the day lasts: the shade that shelters from the sun, and, through the verb ظَلَّ, the state in which one stays all day. Uses 1. ظِلّ, ظِلَال → "shade", "sh… Read the entry → Sealed315 occurrences ظلم zlm To deprive a being of what is due to it: toward others, toward God or toward oneself; this is wrongdoing. Under the same root, ظُلُمَات names the darknesses, the absence… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences ظمء zm' Thirst: the lack of water that the body endures, or that sends it running toward what it takes for water. Uses 1. ظَمَأ → "thirst" : the lack of water endured in the way… Read the entry → Sealed ظما zma See ظمء. Read the entry → Sealed69 occurrences ظنن znn To presume: to hold as probable without knowing. The judgment ranges from near-certainty to supposition without support; it is the context, not the word, that says whethe… Read the entry → Sealed59 occurrences ظهر zhr The back, the side turned outward: hence what is seen and appears, what stands above and prevails, and the back one lends in support. Uses 1. ظَهْر, ظُهُور, ظِهْرِيًّا →… Read the entry → Sealed24 occurrences عاد 'ad Proper noun. The text reads this people through return, ع و د: those who repeat a refusal already committed, coming after the people of Nuh. The translation writes the na… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences عبء 'b' To make account of someone, to give him weight. The only use denies it, but under a condition. Uses 1. يَعْبَؤُا۟ → "to care for" : to make account of someone; here, a ca… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences عبث 'bth To act with no worthwhile aim: to do a thing for nothing, in play, with no serious end. Uses 1. عَبَثًا → "in vain" : without purpose: the word is set aside from God's ac… Read the entry → Sealed275 occurrences عبد 'bd To stand under the authority of another and do what he commands: to obey. The word is said first between humans, of a people held under the domination of another, then of… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences عبر 'br To cross: to pass from one side to the other; hence to pass from what one sees to what one understands. Uses 1. عَابِرِى سَبِيلٍ → "passing along a way" : crossing in the… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences عبس 'bs To harden the face: the visible sign of rejection or displeasure, borne by a man or lent to a day. Uses 1. عَبَسَ → "to frown" : the face that closes before what one refu… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences عبقر 'bqr What goes beyond the ordinary by the quality of its workmanship; the word, used once, names carpets of uncommon make. Uses 1. عَبْقَرِىّ → "exceptional carpets" : the wor… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences عتب 'tb To seek, after a failing, to be taken back into favour: to ask to be readmitted. The text uses the root only to say that this way closes on the Day. Uses 1. يُسْتَعْتَبُو… Read the entry → Sealed16 occurrences عتد 'td To hold ready in advance: what is arranged before the moment it will serve, and is there, ready, when that moment comes. Uses 1. أَعْتَدَ, أَعْتَدْنَا → "to make ready" :… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences عتق 'tq To set free: to release from any hold. The text uses it only of the House, "freed". Uses 1. ٱلْعَتِيق → "freed" : qualifies the House one goes to: a place that belongs to… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences عتل 'tl To seize forcefully and drag a being who resists; and, said of a man, the coarseness of one who treats others so. Uses 1. ٱعْتِلُوهُ → "to drag" : the command given again… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences عتو 'tw To cross a bound by defying it: insolence toward a command received; physically, the extremity of a limit overstepped. Uses 1. عَتَا عَنْ → "to insolently defy" : to refu… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences عثر 'thr To come upon a thing without having sought it: what was hidden is brought to light. Uses 1. عُثِرَ عَلَى → "to be discovered" : the passive: a hidden fact comes to light,… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences عثو 'thw To spread disorder: to do harm actively on the earth. The verb appears only in the prohibition, always in the same formula. Uses 1. لَا تَعْثَوْا۟ → "do not spread disord… Read the entry → Sealed27 occurrences عجب 'jb The seizing before what goes beyond the ordinary. The form carries its direction: in the simple form, the person reacts of himself and marvels; in form IV, the unusual ac… Read the entry → Sealed26 occurrences عجز 'jz What remains behind, at the end of a thing: the base of the felled trunk, the woman at the end of her years, and the strength that reaches its limit and can go no further… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences عجف 'jf Extreme leanness: a body without fat or flesh. Uses 1. عِجَاف → "lean" : said of the cows of the dream, facing the fat ones they devour. «سَبْعَ بَقَرَٰتٍۢ سِمَانٍۢ يَأْك… Read the entry → Sealed47 occurrences عجل 'jl To want at once what has its term: to hasten, and to bring before its hour; ٱلْعَاجِلَة, the immediate life, is what one has without waiting. Under the same root, عِجْل n… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences عجم 'jm What does not speak clearly: a tongue whose articulation is not limpid. The word qualifies a tongue, not a people, and stands against عَرَبِيّ, "flawless". Uses 1. أَعْجَ… Read the entry → Sealed57 occurrences عدد 'dd To number: to establish an exact number, one by one; and, in form IV, to hold ready in advance what has been set in number. Uses 1. عَدَّ, نَعُدُّ, ٱلْعَآدِّين → "to numb… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences عدس 'ds The lentil: one of the five products of the earth demanded in place of a single food. Uses 1. عَدَس → "lentils" : the second-to-last of the five foodstuffs asked of Mouss… Read the entry → Sealed28 occurrences عدل 'dl To set on an equal footing: to treat parties as equals, or to posit one thing as the equivalent of another. Hence justice, compensation, the equal one gives to God, and t… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences عدن 'dn To settle in a place so as to remain there; the word serves only to name the promised gardens, those one enters never to leave. Uses 1. جَنَّٰتُ عَدْنٍ → "the gardens of… Read the entry → Sealed106 occurrences عدو 'dw To pass beyond a limit: against someone, it is aggression; against a rule, it is crossing the limits; and the enemy is the one who stands beyond, against oneself. Uses 1.… Read the entry → Sealed373 occurrences عذب 'dhb To punish: to inflict a penalty on one who has failed, by an authority entitled to it, human or divine; and, said of water, what is sweet to drink, a use the text does no… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences عذر 'dhr To put forward what would clear one of a failing: the excuse, which the one who hears it accepts or refuses. Uses 1. ٱعْتَذَرَ, يَعْتَذِرُونَ → "to make excuses" : to pre… Read the entry → Sealed22 occurrences عرب 'rb The root carries two uses that the text keeps apart: عَرَبِيّ, the quality of a flawless tongue, clear and without defect; ٱلْأَعْرَاب, the notables, a group settled arou… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences عرج 'rj To go along a line that bends: the walk that is not straight, the stalk that curves, and the climb that rises by degrees. Uses 1. ٱلْأَعْرَج → "the lame" : one whose step… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences عرر 'rr What reaches someone through a contact he did not want: the wrong incurred unknowingly; as a participle, the one who comes up to others in order to receive. Uses 1. مَعَر… Read the entry → Sealed33 occurrences عرش 'rsh To raise a construction and set it firm: the edifice, that of men as that of God, and what one raises on a trellis. Uses 1. ٱلْعَرْش (of God) → "the Edifice" : the constr… Read the entry → Sealed79 occurrences عرض 'rd To set across, before the eye: to present a thing; or to turn one's flank to what is presented, and turn away from it. Hence extent in breadth, and what presents itself i… Read the entry → Sealed69 occurrences عرف 'rf To recognize: to identify what one already knows. Hence what is recognized by all, the received usage, and the acknowledgement of what one has done. Uses 1. عَرَفَ, يَعْر… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences عرم 'rm The holding back of water and its violence: the dam, whose breach lets the flood loose. Uses 1. ٱلْعَرِم → "the dam" : the structure that holds back the water, named by t… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences عرو 'rw Two uses under one root, which the text does not bring together: the handhold that the hand grasps, and the evil that comes to strike someone. Uses 1. ٱلْعُرْوَة ٱلْوُثْق… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences عرى 'ra To be uncovered, with nothing that covers: the body without clothing, the ground without shelter. Uses 1. تَعْرَىٰ → "to be unclothed" : the body without clothing; the st… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences عزب 'zb To stand far off, out of reach. The text uses it only negated, to say that nothing escapes God, not even the weight of a grain. Uses 1. يَعْزُبُ عَنْ → "to elude" : to be… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences عزر 'zr To champion: to give a messenger active backing that holds him up and honours him; it is never mere respect. Uses 1. عَزَّرْتُمُوهُمْ, عَزَّرُوهُ, تُعَزِّرُوهُ → "to cham… Read the entry → Sealed119 occurrences عزز 'zz To be out of reach through strength: the power that lets itself be neither seized nor overcome. Said of God, of a man, of the Scripture; negated, it says that nothing res… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences عزل 'zl To set a distance between oneself and another: to keep away from a person, a group or what it serves, or to be kept away from it. Uses 1. ٱعْتَزَلَ, يَعْتَزِلُ → "to keep… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences عزم 'zm To settle firmly what one will do, once the matter is weighed, and to hold to it: resolve. Uses 1. عَزَمَ, تَعْزِمُوا۟ → "to be resolved on", "to make one's decision", "t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences عزو 'zw To stand in separate groups: distinct gatherings within one and the same movement. Uses 1. عِزِين → "in separate groups" : each apart, on either side. «عَنِ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَ… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences عسر 'sr Hardship: the weight that makes a thing hard; the opposite of ease, يسر, with which the word nearly always goes. Uses 1. ٱلْعُسْر, عُسْرَة, ٱلْعُسْرَىٰ → "hardship" : the… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences عسعس 's's The passing of the night, as it comes or as it goes; here, the night departing before the dawn. Uses 1. عَسْعَسَ → "when it departs" : the night going away, at the moment… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences عسل 'sl Honey. Uses 1. عَسَل → "honey" : the honey of the rivers of the Garden, called "purified". «وَأَنْهَٰرٌۭ مِّنْ عَسَلٍۢ مُّصَفًّۭى» — "and rivers of purified honey" (47:15… Read the entry → Sealed27 occurrences عشر 'shr Two uses under one root, which the text does not bring together: the number ten, a unit of count that completes and closes; and living with, hence the companion, kinsmen,… Read the entry → Sealed14 occurrences عشو 'shw The light that declines: evening, the end of the day, named against the morning; and, said of the gaze, the sight that grows dim. Uses 1. ٱلْعَشِىّ, عَشِيًّا → "evening",… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences عصب 'sb To bind together: a group of men bound and strong, or a day in which everything tightens. Uses 1. عُصْبَة → "a close-knit group", "a group", "a band" : men bound to one a… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences عصر 'sr To press: to compress a matter until what it contains comes out. The winepress, the rain, the whirlwind and the oath of surah 103 all speak of this pressure; no use names… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences عصف 'sf To tear away and scatter with force: the wind that carries everything off, and the husk that threshing tears from the grain. Uses 1. عَاصِف, عَاصِفَة → "violent", "raging… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences عصم 'sm To hold firm what keeps one out of reach: the human being holds firmly to God, and what safeguards keeps out of reach the one who holds to it. The gesture is an active gr… Read the entry → Sealed44 occurrences عصو 'sw To refuse to follow a command received: to disobey. Under the same root, عَصَا names the staff, that of Moussa as well as those of the illusionists. Uses 1. عَصَىٰ, يَعْص… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences عضد 'dd The arm, and from it the support one relies on in order to act. Uses 1. عَضُد → "arm" : the arm one strengthens, or the one one leans on. «سَنَشُدُّ عَضُدَكَ بِأَخِيكَ» —… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences عضض 'dd To bite oneself: the gesture in which rage or regret, having no other outlet, turns against the body. Uses 1. عَضَّ, يَعَضُّ → "to bite" : always a gesture upon oneself:… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences عضل 'dl To stand in the way, by one's authority and for one's own profit, of what belongs to a woman: remarrying, keeping what was given her. Uses 1. لَا تَعْضُلُوهُنَّ → "do not… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences عضو 'dw To break into pieces what formed a whole: the text so names what some made of the Recitation, reduced to disparate fragments. Uses 1. عِضِين → "disparate fragments" : the… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences عطف 'tf The side, what one folds and folds back: in 22:9, one who argues folding his side, closed to what he disputes. Uses 1. عِطْف → "side" : the side of the body, folded back… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences عطل 'tl To leave without use or care what once served: the waterhole from which no one draws any more, the pregnant camels that no one tends. Uses 1. مُعَطَّلَة → "untended" : th… Read the entry → Sealed14 occurrences عطو 'tw To endow: to hand someone a share, which the text measures; in form VI, to reach out the hand to seize. Uses 1. أَعْطَىٰ, أَعْطَيْنَٰكَ, يُعْطِيكَ → "to endow" : to hand… Read the entry → Sealed128 occurrences عظم 'zm What is massive and bears weight: greatness carried to its height, and the bone, the hard frame of the body. Uses 1. عَظِيم → "immense" : that whose measure overwhelms: a… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences عفر 'fr The ifrit: a kind of Occulted being, which the text defines by what it says of itself, strong and trustworthy. Uses 1. عِفْرِيت → "an ifrit" : an Occulted being who offer… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences عفف 'ff To hold oneself back, by choice, from a permitted right or desire: an active restraint, never a lack endured. Uses 1. ٱلتَّعَفُّف → "refraining" : the bearing of those wh… Read the entry → Sealed35 occurrences عفو 'fw To let go, to overlook: not to hold a fault or a due against the one who bears it; hence what one can let go without lacking it, what one can do without: the surplus. Use… Read the entry → Sealed80 occurrences عقب 'qb What comes behind, following on: the heel, the outcome of a course, the sequel that answers an act. Uses 1. عَٰقِبَة, عُقْبَى → "the end", "the outcome" : what a course l… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences عقد 'qd To knot: to tighten a bond that holds, between persons (the contract, the oath) or in matter (the knot). Uses 1. ٱلْعُقُود, عُقْدَة ٱلنِّكَاح → "contracts", "the marriage… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences عقر 'qr Two uses under one root, which the text does not bring together: to hamstring Salih's she-camel; and, said of a woman, to be barren. Uses 1. عَقَرَ, فَعَقَرُوهَا → "to ha… Read the entry → Sealed49 occurrences عقل 'ql To reason: to link facts together so as to grasp their meaning. The text expects it before signs, and denies it of those who have ears and eyes without using them. Uses 1… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences عقم 'qm To produce nothing of what is expected: the woman or man without offspring, and, by the same image, the wind or the day that leave nothing behind them. Uses 1. عَقِيم → "… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences عكف 'kf To keep beside a place or a thing without moving away from it: an assiduous and prolonged presence, whatever its object. Uses 1. ٱلْعَٰكِف, عَٰكِفُونَ (a place) → "those… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences علق 'lq To cling, to adhere: what fixes itself instead of flowing, or stays hanging without being held or released. Uses 1. عَلَقَة, عَلَق → "clinging form" : the stage where the… Read the entry → Sealed854 occurrences علم 'lm To know: to hold for sure what a mark makes known. From it the mark itself, the landmark; what is known because fixed; and teaching, which passes knowledge on. Uses 1. عَ… Read the entry → Sealed16 occurrences علن 'ln To bring out into view what one carries: what one shows, always facing what one keeps secret or hidden. Uses 1. يُعْلِنُونَ, تُعْلِنُونَ, نُعْلِنُ → "to disclose" : the s… Read the entry → Sealed70 occurrences علو 'lw To be above: by position, by rank, or by the elevation one arrogates to oneself. Uses 1. ٱلْعَلِىّ, عَلِىّ → "the Most High", "Most High" : the name of God, almost always… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences عمد 'md What supports: the pillar that holds a building upright, and the intent that holds an act. Uses 1. عَمَد, ٱلْعِمَاد → "pillars" : what bears a construction: the heavens r… Read the entry → Sealed24 occurrences عمر 'mr To last and to make live: the life that is prolonged, and the place that a continuing presence keeps inhabited. Uses 1. عُمُر, لَعَمْرُكَ → "life", "age" : the length of… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences عمق 'mq Depth; said of a path, it measures its distance. Uses 1. عَمِيق → "distant, deep-cut" : the deep path, which must be travelled at length. «يَأْتِينَ مِن كُلِّ فَجٍّ عَمِي… Read the entry → Sealed360 occurrences عمل 'ml To act and to do work: what one does, taken as a whole one answers for and which will be weighed. Uses 1. عَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ → "to do sound deeds" : the formula join… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences عمم 'mm The uncle and the aunt on the father's side. Uses 1. أَعْمَام → "paternal uncles" : the brothers of the father. «أَوْ بُيُوتِ أَعْمَٰمِكُمْ» — "or the houses of your pate… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences عمه 'mh To go without seeing where one goes: to move on blindly, plunged in the immoderation or the intoxication one has chosen. Uses 1. يَعْمَهُونَ → "to go about blindly" : the… Read the entry → Sealed33 occurrences عمى 'ma Not to see: blindness of the eyes, and more often of the core, which does not discern what is before it. Uses 1. أَعْمَىٰ, عُمْى, عُمْيَان → "blind", "the blind" : the on… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences عنب 'nb The vine and its fruit, the grape: a blessing of the earth, almost always named with the palm. Uses 1. أَعْنَاب → "vines" : the plant, in the plural, in gardens. «جَنَّٰت… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences عنت 'nt To be overwhelmed by a burden beyond one's strength: the overwhelming that God spares, and that the messenger dreads for his own. Uses 1. أَعْنَتَ, عَنِتَ, ٱلْعَنَت → "to… Read the entry → Sealed201 occurrences عند 'nd The side where one stands: what is with someone, within his sphere; and one who stays planted on his side against all, the obstinate one. Uses 1. عِندَ → "with" : to plac… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences عنق 'nq The neck, where what one bears is fixed: shackle, omen, clenched hand. Uses 1. عُنُق, أَعْنَاق → "neck", "necks" : the place of the fetter and of the burden. «وَجَعَلْنَا… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences عنكب 'nkb The spider: the creature whose house, built of its threads, is the flimsiest there is. Uses 1. ٱلْعَنكَبُوت → "the spider" : the image of those who take allies besides Go… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences عنو 'nw To lower oneself wholly before one higher than oneself; the only use says it of faces, on the Day, before the Living, the Self-Subsisting. Uses 1. عَنَتِ → "to bow low" :… Read the entry → Sealed46 occurrences عهد 'hd The pact: a bond concluded between two parties, which obliges each to keep its terms. Uses 1. عَهْد → "pact" : the bond itself, which one keeps or breaks. «وَأَوْفُوا۟ بِ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences عهن 'hn Wool that has been carded: a light and loose matter, to which the text compares the mountains on the day of the end. Uses 1. ٱلْعِهْن → "carded wool" : always in the same… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences عوج 'wj To depart from the straight line: the twisting of a path, a writing or a ground that ought to stay straight. Uses 1. يَبْغُونَهَا عِوَجًا → "to seek to make it crooked" :… Read the entry → Sealed39 occurrences عود 'wd To come back to what has already been: to return to a place, a state or an act, and, said of God, to remake what He began. Uses 1. عَادَ, يَعُودُ → "to return", "to relap… Read the entry → Sealed17 occurrences عوذ 'wdh To seek refuge: to place oneself under the protection of one stronger, against a named ill. Uses 1. أَعُوذُ, عُذْتُ, يَعُوذُونَ → "to take refuge" : to shelter with someo… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences عور 'wr The intimate part one protects from view, opened only to a narrow circle: of the body, or of the house at certain hours. Uses 1. عَوْرَات → "private matters", "times of p… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences عوق 'wq To hold others back from a commitment: to obstruct, turning them away from the fight by speech. Uses 1. ٱلْمُعَوِّقِين → "those who obstruct" : those who stop others, not… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences عول 'wl To give way under a burden beyond one's strength. Uses 1. تَعُولُوا۟ → "being overburdened by the weight of a family" : the weight of a family too heavy to be carried jus… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences عوم 'wm The year as a unit of count: the one named, counted, and whose status is fixed. Uses 1. عَام, عَامَيْن → "year", "two years" : the counted year: its status, its abundance… Read the entry → Sealed15 occurrences عون 'wn To lend support to one who is not enough alone for his task: to help, to seek help, to help one another. Under the same root, عَوَان says the beast of middle age, between… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences عيب 'yb To make defective: to put into a thing a flaw that takes away its value in another's eyes. Uses 1. أَعِيبَهَا → "to make it defective" : the boat of the destitute, which… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences عير 'yr The caravan: the convoy of travellers and their beasts, which goes and returns together, and is named as a single body. Uses 1. ٱلْعِير → "the caravan" : the convoy of Yo… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences عيش 'ysh To live from day to day: what one lives on, and the quality of the life one leads. Uses 1. مَعَٰيِش, مَعَاش → "means of livelihood" : what the earth and the day give for… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences عيل 'yl To be in need, burdened with necessities one cannot cover: indigence, which God promises to lift. Uses 1. عَيْلَة → "indigence" : the state of need one dreads; God's prom… Read the entry → Sealed61 occurrences عين 'yn The eye and the spring: the point from which comes what is seen or what flows, the gaze and the tears, the water that gushes. Uses 1. عَيْن, أَعْيُن → "the eye", "eyes" :… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences عيى 'ya To wear oneself out at a task to the point of being unable to carry it further; the text says it only to deny it of God, before creation. Uses 1. يَعْىَ, عَيِيَ → "to be… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences غبر ghbr What remains behind when the rest has gone: those who do not leave with their own, and the dust that falls back and covers. Uses 1. ٱلْغَٰبِرِينَ → "those who linger behi… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غبن ghbn Being cheated in an exchange; on the pattern of reciprocity, ٱلتَّغَابُن says the moment when each one discovers what he gave up and what he received. Uses 1. ٱلتَّغَابُن… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غثو ghthw Wisps of straw: dry, weightless strands that the current carries off; what a living thing becomes when neither sap nor weight is left to it. Uses 1. غُثَآء → "wisps of st… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غدر ghdr To leave a part behind without taking it into account; the text uses it only under negation: nothing is left aside. Uses 1. نُغَادِرْ, يُغَادِرُ → "to omit" : always nega… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غدق ghdq Water flowing in profusion: an abundance that is given, and that puts the one who receives it to the test. Uses 1. غَدَقًا → "plentiful" : qualifies the water given to dr… Read the entry → Sealed16 occurrences غدو ghdw To go out at the start of the day: the departure that opens a stage. Hence the morning, facing the evening, the day to come, and the meal taken on the way. Uses 1. غَدَوْ… Read the entry → Sealed19 occurrences غرب ghrb To pass into darkness: the sun that vanishes on the horizon, the side where it sets, and, by hue, the deepest black, that of the raven. Uses 1. غَرَبَت, تَغْرُبُ, ٱلْغُرُ… Read the entry → Sealed27 occurrences غرر ghrr To make what is not safe appear safe: to delude by an appearance that attracts and reassures, until it turns one away from what is coming. Uses 1. غَرَّ, غَرَّتْهُمُ, تَغ… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences غرف ghrf Two uses under one root: to draw into the hollow of the hand the measure it holds, and the high chamber, the elevated dwelling of the reward. The text does not link the t… Read the entry → Sealed23 occurrences غرق ghrq To be submerged by water until one perishes in it: to drown, to be drowned; in the oath of 79:1, the tearing away that plunges to the bottom. Uses 1. أَغْرَقَ, يُغْرِقُ →… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences غرم ghrm What one is forced to bear without having wished it: a debt imposed by an unforeseen expense, an expense felt as a charge, a penalty that falls unforeseen and must be pai… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غرو ghrw To set one against another: to unleash a hostility that clings to those it targets and no longer leaves them. Uses 1. فَأَغْرَيْنَا, لَنُغْرِيَنَّكَ → "to unleash among",… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غزل ghzl Spinning: the thread obtained by twisting fibres, a work of patience that holds by its twist. Uses 1. غَزْل → "her thread" : the spun thread, which one can unravel after… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غزو ghzw To go off on an expedition: to leave one's own for a distant fight. Uses 1. غُزًّى → "to go off on an expedition" : those who are on an expedition, far from the circle of… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences غسق ghsq The darkness that gains and penetrates; in the form غَسَّاق, a dark and foul drink. Uses 1. غَسَق → "the darkness" : night at the point where it thickens, the limit of a… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences غسل ghsl To wash with water what must be made clean: the body before the Contact; hence the water that serves for washing, and the liquid that flows from the washing. Uses 1. ٱغْس… Read the entry → Sealed29 occurrences غشو ghshw To cover entirely, so as to withdraw from sight: the night over the day, the wave over the ship, sleep, punishment. Uses 1. يُغْشِى, يَغْشَىٰ, غَشِيَ, غَشَّىٰ → "to cover… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غصب ghsb To take by force what belongs to another, without right or consent. Uses 1. غَصْبًا → "by force" : the way the king takes the boats. «يَأْخُذُ كُلَّ سَفِينَةٍ غَصْبًۭا» —… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غصص ghss What sticks in the throat: a food that does not go down, and that chokes instead of nourishing. Uses 1. غُصَّةٍ → "that chokes" : qualifies a food that cannot be swallowe… Read the entry → Sealed24 occurrences غضب ghdb Anger: the sharp response that a transgression arouses; it is said of God and of the human. Uses 1. غَضَب → "anger" : the anger that falls upon those who have transgresse… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences غضض ghdd To lower of one's own accord what might rise or impose itself: the gaze, the voice; a restraint one chooses. Uses 1. يَغُضُّوا۟, يَغْضُضْنَ + مِنْ أَبْصَٰر → "to cast dow… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غطش ghtsh To darken: to plunge into darkness, by an act, and not to let night fall of itself. Uses 1. أَغْطَشَ → "to darken" : God makes the night of the sky, as He brings forth it… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غطو ghtw The veil: what covers an organ of the senses and keeps it away from what it should grasp, and which can be removed. Uses 1. غِطَاء → "a veil", "your veil" : laid on the e… Read the entry → Sealed234 occurrences غفر ghfr To cover the fault so that it ceases to weigh: to forgive. God forgives, His forgiveness is asked, and the human forgives in turn. Uses 1. غَفَرَ, يَغْفِرُ, ٱغْفِرْ → "to… Read the entry → Sealed35 occurrences غفل ghfl Heedlessness: not paying attention to what should be present to the mind. Uses 1. غَافِل (God, negated) → "is not heedless of" : the formula stating that nothing people d… Read the entry → Sealed31 occurrences غلب ghlb To get the better of the other in a confrontation: to overcome, or to be overcome. Uses 1. غَلَبَ, يَغْلِبُ → "to overcome", "to win out" : to have the upper hand over an… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences غلظ ghlz The thickness that makes hard: what does not bend, whether a plant growing stout, an engagement, an attitude or a punishment. Uses 1. ٱسْتَغْلَظَ → "to thicken" : the sta… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غلف ghlf The wrapping: what covers and keeps closed, so that nothing gets in. Uses 1. غُلْف → "wrapped up" : the cores their bearers say are closed to what is announced to them. «… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غلق ghlq To close completely: to bolt an access so that no one may enter or leave. Uses 1. غَلَّقَتِ → "to bolt" : form II, on a plural: all the doors, one after another. «وَغَلَّ… Read the entry → Sealed16 occurrences غلل ghll To bind and hold back: the shackle that holds the neck and the hand, the rancor that stays knotted in the chest, the good held back by embezzlement. Uses 1. ٱلْأَغْلَٰل →… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences غلم ghlm The boy: the male child, from the announcement of his birth to his youth. Uses 1. غُلَام (the announcement) → "a boy" : the announced child, often where everything seemed… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غلو ghlw To go beyond the right measure: to exaggerate, overstepping the truth. Uses 1. لَا تَغْلُوا۟ → "Do not exaggerate" : the call addressed to the people of the Scripture, tw… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غلى ghla To boil: the agitation of a liquid set on the fire. Uses 1. يَغْلِى, غَلْى → "to boil" : the verb and the verbal noun, side by side in one comparison. «يَغْلِى فِى ٱلْبُط… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences غمر ghmr Immersion: what covers entirely, like deep water, the one plunged in it, down to his awareness. Uses 1. غَمَرَات ٱلْمَوْت → "the throes of death" : the moment when death… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غمز ghmz To signal to one another with the eye, covertly and in mockery. Uses 1. يَتَغَامَزُونَ → "to wink at one another" : form VI, reciprocal: those who cut themselves off, amo… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غمض ghmd To close one's eyes to a thing so as to accept it without looking: to consent to what one would not take willingly. Uses 1. تُغْمِضُوا۟ → "to close one's eyes (to it)" :… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences غمم ghmm To cover and darken: the cloud that veils the sky, the anguish that weighs on the one it covers, the matter that stays in shadow. Uses 1. ٱلْغَمَام → "the cloud", "the cl… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences غنم ghnm The goods one takes and keeps: spoils, and small livestock, the first of riches. Uses 1. غَنِمْتُم → "to take as spoils" : to acquire goods from the adversary; always pla… Read the entry → Sealed73 occurrences غنى ghna To be self-sufficient: to need nothing else. Said of God, it is His quality; said of what a person possesses, it is what, at the moment one would need it, avails nothing.… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences غوث ghwth To call for rescue in distress, and the rescue that answers that call; hence the rain that draws the land out of drought. Uses 1. ٱسْتَغَاثَ → "to call for rescue" : the… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences غور ghwr To sink into the depth and vanish there: water lost underground, the hollow one enters, the assault that plunges. Uses 1. غَوْرًا → "to sink" : water that goes down under… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غوص ghws To dive beneath the surface of the water. Uses 1. يَغُوصُونَ, غَوَّاص → "to dive", "diver" : the task that some of the Diverters perform for Sulayman. «وَمِنَ ٱلشَّيَٰطِي… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غوط ghwt The hollow of the ground where one withdraws; hence the act one performs there: relieving oneself. Uses 1. ٱلْغَائِط → "relieving oneself" : the Arabic says "coming from… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غول ghwl The harm that seizes without showing itself: what a drink leaves behind, and what the cup of the Garden does not carry. Uses 1. غَوْلٌ → "headache" : the dull harm that f… Read the entry → Sealed22 occurrences غوى ghwa To err: to go adrift far from the way, through seduction or through one's own conduct, or to draw another into it. It is the opposite of rectitude. Uses 1. ٱلْغَىّ, غَيًّ… Read the entry → Sealed60 occurrences غيب ghyb To be absent: what is not present to the senses, and the one who is not there. The word names a limit of presence, not a separate realm. Uses 1. ٱلْغَيْب, غَيْب → "what e… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غيض ghyd To fall below the full: water receding after the flood, the womb holding less than it might. Uses 1. غِيضَ → "to subside" : the ebbing of the waters, from their highest l… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences غيظ ghyz The rage that rises and is held back: contained anger, which gnaws at the one who bears it, or which one provokes in another. Uses 1. ٱلْغَيْظ → "rage" : anger held withi… Read the entry → 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 → Sealed1 occurrences قبح qbh To strike with ugliness and rejection: the condition of those whom a sentence sets aside and disgraces. Uses 1. ٱلْمَقْبُوحِين → "the disfigured" : those whom the judgmen… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences قبر qbr The grave: the place where the dead are laid down, and from which they will be raised. Uses 1. ٱلْقُبُور, ٱلْمَقَابِر → "the graves" : the place of the dead, which the te… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences قبس qbs To take from a fire or a light a small part that one carries off, without touching the source: the firebrand, the light one draws. Uses 1. قَبَس → "a firebrand" : the emb… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences قبض qbd To close the hand on what one holds: to seize, to withhold, or to draw back to oneself what was spread out. Uses 1. قَبَضَ, يَقْبِضُ → "to tighten", "to close", "to draw… Read the entry → Sealed294 occurrences قبل qbl To face: what stands before one; hence what came before, the point one turns toward, and the welcome given to what presents itself. Uses 1. قَبْلَ, مِن قَبْلُ → "before"… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences قتر qtr To tighten and darken: the dark dust that veils a face, and the restraint that tightens spending to the point of stinginess. Uses 1. قَتَر, قَتَرَة → "dark dust" : the da… Read the entry → Sealed170 occurrences قتل qtl To end a life by a direct act: to kill; in the forms of exchange, the clash in which each seeks the other's death, to fight. Uses 1. قَتَلَ, يَقْتُلُ, قُتِلَ → "to kill",… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قثء qth' The cucumber: one of the five plants of the earth that the sons of Israel demand of Moussa, weary of a single food. Uses 1. قِثَّآء → "cucumbers" : a cultivated plant, na… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences قحم qhm To throw oneself in one rush into what is rough and hard to reach. Uses 1. مُّقْتَحِم → "to rush in" : the crowd pouring in with one rush. «هَٰذَا فَوْجٌۭ مُّقْتَحِمٌۭ مَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قدح qdh To strike so as to draw fire: the brief clash that brings out the spark. Uses 1. قَدْحًا → "that strike the spark through their clashes" : the clash, in the charge, that… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences قدد qdd To split a whole into separate parts: to tear a cloth from top to bottom, or a group divided into distinct ways. Uses 1. قَدَّ, قُدَّ → "to tear" : to split the fabric in… Read the entry → Sealed132 occurrences قدر qdr To set the exact measure of a thing: its quantity, its term, or what one can accomplish. The One who holds the measure of all things is also the One who can do all things… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences قدس qds To set apart from all defilement: the holiness proclaimed for God, the place He has sanctified, and the sacred Influx that fortifies and brings down. Uses 1. نُقَدِّسُ لَ… Read the entry → Sealed48 occurrences قدم qdm To place forward, in space or in time: to advance, to prepare in advance what one will find again, and the foot that carries the step. Uses 1. قَدَّمَتْ أَيْدِيهِمْ → "wh… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences قدو qdw To set one's course by another's: to take as a model and conform to it. The word does not judge the model; everything depends on the one followed. Uses 1. ٱقْتَدِهْ → "to… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences قذف qdhf To throw with force, in a single movement, so that the thing goes far or strikes: a child into the deep, terror into the cores, truth against falsehood. Uses 1. قَذَفَ فِ… Read the entry → Sealed88 occurrences قرء qr' To read: to speak a text by following it from end to end, and to count by following a sequence. The text names itself by this act: "the Recitation". Uses 1. قَرَأَ, ٱقْرَ… Read the entry → Sealed96 occurrences قرب qrb To be near: distance reduced, in space, in time, or in kinship. Uses 1. قَرِيب, أَقْرَب → "near", "closer" : what is at little distance: God to the one who calls Him, hel… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences قرح qrh The wound: the blow received in battle, which touches some as it has touched others. Uses 1. قَرْح → "a wound", "the wound" : the wound of battle, which one endures and w… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences قرد qrd The ape: the form a sentence imposes on those who crossed the limit. Uses 1. قِرَدَة → "apes" : the noun appears only in the sentence that strikes the transgressors. «كُو… Read the entry → Sealed38 occurrences قرر qrr To settle and move no more: the place where one stops, the gaze that finds rest, the acknowledged word that no longer varies. Uses 1. مُسْتَقَرّ, قَرَار → "haven", "stabl… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences قرض qrd Two uses: the loan made to God, which returns doubled to the one who makes it; and the sun passing along the cave with a graze, without entering it. Uses 1. أَقْرَضَ, قَر… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences قرطس qrts Parchment: the sheet that bears the writing, which one may touch, show, or hide. Uses 1. قِرْطَاس, قَرَاطِيس → "parchment", "parchments" : the material support of writing… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences قرع qr' To strike with a sharp and sudden blow, without warning: the shock that bursts out and resounds. Uses 1. قَارِعَة → "a sudden crash" : the blow that strikes, or lands clo… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences قرف qrf To procure by one's own deed: to commit an act, to acquire a good. The word does not state the value of what is acquired; it says that it returns to its author. Uses 1. ٱ… Read the entry → Sealed33 occurrences قرن qrn To join one to another: what goes together in one time (the generation), at someone's side (the acolyte), or bound together (those in chains). Uses 1. قَرْن, قُرُون → "ge… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences قرنين qrnyn The two ends of one and the same thing, like the two horns of a single head: in the dual, in the name ذُو ٱلْقَرْنَيْنِ, the one of the two ends, or of the two eras. The… Read the entry → Sealed57 occurrences قرى qra The city: a community settled in a place, which the text judges as one body. Uses 1. ٱلْقَرْيَة, قَرْيَة → "the city", "a city" : the community and its place; at times th… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قريش qrysh Proper noun of a group: those whom the text names by the harmony of their journeys of winter and summer. The translation writes "the Quraysh". Uses 1. قُرَيْش → "the Qura… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قسر qsr The lion: the wild beast before which wild donkeys flee, an image of those who turn away from the reminder. Uses 1. قَسْوَرَة → "a lion" : the predator whose mere presenc… Read the entry → Sealed27 occurrences قسط qst Just measure, that of exact weighing: giving each his due to the last grain. The simple form says the opposite: to depart from the measure. Uses 1. ٱلْقِسْط, بِٱلْقِسْطِ… Read the entry → Sealed33 occurrences قسم qsm To share out, to assign each one his part; and to swear, to pledge one's word as a part given in surety. Uses 1. قَسَمَ, قِسْمَة, مَقْسُوم, ٱلْمُقْتَسِمِين → "to apportio… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences قسو qsw To harden and lose all suppleness: the core that becomes like stone, always after a failing. Uses 1. قَسَا → "to harden" : to become hard, with time or after a fault. «ثُ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قسيسين qsysyn Priests: those who hold the charge of worship within a community. Uses 1. قِسِّيسِين → "priests" : named with the monks, among those who say: "We are indeed the Helpers".… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قشعر qsh'r To shiver: the skin that bristles under fear, before growing calm. Uses 1. تَقْشَعِرُّ → "to shiver" : the body's first seizing before the word that descends. «تَقْشَعِرُ… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences قصد qsd To go straight to the goal by the right measure, without excess or detour: the way that goes straight, the moderate pace, the journey without length. Uses 1. قَصْد ٱلسَّب… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences قصر qsr To circumscribe an extent: to enclose it (the palace), to shorten it (the Contact, the hair), to hold it back (the reserved gaze). Uses 1. قَصْر, قُصُور → "palaces", "pal… Read the entry → Sealed30 occurrences قصص qss To follow a trace without straying from it: to retrace exactly the path of a fact, on foot, by narrative or by investigation. Uses 1. قَصَّ (the trace) → "to follow the t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قصف qsf To break clean, with a violent blow: the wind that snaps what it strikes. Uses 1. قَاصِفًا مِّنَ ٱلرِّيحِ → "a shattering wind" : a wind whose violence breaks and drowns.… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قصم qsm To shatter outright: to break what held, beyond return, like a wrongdoing city whose course is cut short. Uses 1. قَصَمْنَا → "have We shattered" : the city broken in its… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences قصو qsw The extremity: the farthest point one reaches in a direction, or the place that stands apart. Uses 1. ٱلْأَقْصَا, ٱلْقُصْوَىٰ → "the farthest", "the farther" : the end of… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قضب qdb To cut a tender shoot; hence the plant that is cut and grows back, fodder. Uses 1. قَضْبًا → "fodder" : the greenery mown as fast as it grows back. «وَعِنَبًۭا وَقَضْبًۭا… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قضض qdd To come apart until it falls: the structure that loses its cohesion and is about to collapse. Uses 1. يَنقَضّ → "to topple" : the state of what threatens to collapse of i… Read the entry → Sealed63 occurrences قضى qda To bring a thing to its term, so that it is settled with no return: to decree, to decide, to conclude, to put an end. Uses 1. قَضَىٰٓ أَمْرًا, قَضَىٰ رَبُّكَ, قَضَىٰٓ أَج… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences قطر qtr What flows from the earth and what marks its edges: the black liquid that wells up from a spring, naphtha or tar; and, in the plural أَقْطَار, the sides of a space out to… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قطط qtt The portion cut off that falls to each. Uses 1. قِطّ → "our share" : the share demanded in defiance, before its term. «رَبَّنَا عَجِّل لَّنَا قِطَّنَا قَبْلَ يَوْمِ ٱلْحِ… Read the entry → Sealed36 occurrences قطع qt' To separate what held together: to sever a link, to interrupt a course, to detach a part from its whole. Uses 1. قَطَعَ, يَقْطَعُ → "to cut off", "to interrupt", "to issu… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences قطف qtf What one picks: the fruit that hangs within the hand's reach. Uses 1. قُطُوف → "clusters" : fruit to be picked, always said to be near. «قُطُوفُهَا دَانِيَةٌۭ» — "whose c… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قطمر qtmr The thin skin that wraps the date-stone: the smallest thing one could possess. Uses 1. قِطْمِير → "the skin of a date-stone" : a measure of the minute, under a negation.… Read the entry → Sealed31 occurrences قعد q'd To be seated: to stay in place when others rise or leave; hence the post where one settles, the seat where one dwells, and the foundations on which a building sits. Uses… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قعر q'r The bottom of a thing; to be torn out to the bottom, uprooted with one's base. Uses 1. مُّنقَعِر → "uprooted" : the trunk torn out with its roots. «كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قفل qfl The bolt: what closes an access. Uses 1. أَقْفَال → "locks" : the closure set upon the core, which bars its entrance. «أَمْ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبٍ أَقْفَالُهَآ» — "or are there l… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences قفو qfw To go at the nape of another, in his wake: to bring one after the other, or to set out behind a trace. Uses 1. قَفَّيْنَا → "to make follow" : to send a messenger in the… Read the entry → Sealed168 occurrences قلب qlb To turn over: to make a thing pass from one side to the other. The قَلْب, "the core", is the centre of the person, where one turns toward meaning or closes oneself to it;… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences قلد qld To place on the neck: to attach to someone a charge he must discharge — the vow with which the offered animal is marked, the charges of the heavens and the earth. Uses 1.… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قلع ql' To stop short what one was doing: the sky holding back the water it was pouring. Uses 1. أَقْلِعِى → "hold back" : the command to halt a movement under way. «وَيَٰسَمَآءُ… Read the entry → Sealed76 occurrences قلل qll To be few or little: small quantity, small number, slight measure; in the comparative, to be less; in form IV, to lift what one carries as a light thing. Uses 1. قَلِيلًا… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences قلم qlm The cut reed: the instrument that traces writing, and that is also cast to decide between people. Uses 1. ٱلْقَلَم, أَقْلَٰم → "the pen", "pens" : the instrument of writi… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences قلى qla To reject with loathing: to loathe a conduct, or to loathe someone. Uses 1. ٱلْقَالِين → "those who loathe" : those who reject a conduct with disgust. «مِّنَ ٱلْقَالِينَ»… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قمح qmh To have the head forced up: the posture the shackle imposes when it rises to the chin. Uses 1. مُّقْمَحُون → "their heads are held back" : the head held high by what grip… Read the entry → Sealed27 occurrences قمر qmr The moon: the body of the night, named with the sun as a sign, as a measure of time, and as a thing subjected. Uses 1. ٱلْقَمَر → "the moon" : the body itself, almost alw… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences قمص qms The tunic: the garment worn on the body, whose state, in the account of Youssof, serves as proof. Uses 1. قَمِيص → "his shirt", "shirt of mine" : Youssof's garment, three… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قمطر qmtr To tighten, to contract harshly: what is dreadfully hard to live through. Uses 1. قَمْطَرِير → "dreadful" : the day whose rigor tightens and oppresses. «يَوْمًا عَبُوسًۭا… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قمع qm' To strike so as to hold in: the instrument that strikes and keeps one within the penalty. Uses 1. مَقَٰمِع → "maces" : the iron instrument by which the penalty is carried… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قمل qml Lice: one of the detailed signs sent upon the people of Fir'awn. Uses 1. ٱلْقُمَّل → "the lice" : named among five scourges that follow one another. «فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْ… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences قنت qnt To abide in devotion: a lasting disposition toward God, not the act of a moment. Uses 1. قَٰنِت, قَٰنِتُونَ, قَٰنِتَٰت → "devoted" : the one, man or woman, who abides in… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences قنط qnt To lose heart: to stop awaiting benevolence, to the point of collapsing before the ill that touches one. Uses 1. قَنَطَ, يَقْنَطُ, ٱلْقَٰنِطِين → "to lose heart", "those… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences قنطر qntr The quintal: a large quantity of goods, whose matter the text states only when it names gold and silver. Uses 1. قِنطَار → "a quintal" : a mass of goods: a deposit entrus… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences قنع qn' The root carries two uses that the text keeps apart: ٱلْقَانِع, the one who is content without asking; مُقْنِعِى رُءُوسِهِمْ, the lifted heads of those who rush forward o… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قنو qnw The bunch: the cluster of dates hanging from the spathe of the palm. Uses 1. قِنْوَان → "bunches" : the bunches coming out of the spathe, within reach. «وَمِنَ ٱلنَّخْلِ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قنى qna To make one acquire a good that remains: to grant lasting possession, following enrichment. Uses 1. أَقْنَىٰ → "to grant lasting possession" : the second moment of the pa… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences قهر qhr To hold the other under one's force, to have the upper hand over him for good. Said of God, it is the dominion of the One, which nothing contests. Uses 1. ٱلْقَهَّار → "t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قوب qwb The measure of a gap: the distance of two bows, then nearer still. Uses 1. قَاب → "the distance of" : a precise length, set as a unit. «فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences قوت qwt The ration that keeps alive: what is measured and apportioned for sustenance, and the One who guarantees it. Uses 1. أَقْوَٰت → "its rations" : the resources God has meas… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences قوس qws The bow, and its length taken as a measure of distance. Uses 1. قَوْسَيْنِ → "two bow-lengths" : two lengths of a bow: the measure of a very great nearness. «فَكَانَ قَاب… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences قوع qw' The bare plain: a flat expanse, without relief or shelter. Uses 1. قَاع → "a level plain" : what remains of the scattered mountains. «فَيَذَرُهَا قَاعًۭا صَفْصَفًۭا» — "l… Read the entry → Sealed1722 occurrences قول qwl To say: to produce speech and make it heard; speech so said is the saying. In form V, to fabricate a saying and attribute it to another. Uses 1. قَالَ, يَقُولُ, قُلْ → "t… Read the entry → Sealed660 occurrences قوم qwm To stand: to rise, to keep a thing standing so that it lasts, to stand straight; and the people, those who stand together. Uses 1. قَوْم, يَٰقَوْمِ → "people", "O my peop… Read the entry → Sealed42 occurrences قوى qwa Strength: what allows one to hold and to act by oneself. In the participle ٱلْمُقْوِين, those who halt in the empty expanse and have nothing to hold on with but what they… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences قيض qyd To place beside someone what answers to him and no longer leaves him: to assign a companion, as the outcome of what he himself chose. Uses 1. قَيَّضْنَا, نُقَيِّضْ → "to… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences قيل qyl The midday rest: the siesta, and the place where it is taken. Uses 1. قَآئِلُون → "taking a midday rest" : the moment of the noonday rest. «بَيَٰتًا أَوْ هُمْ قَآئِلُونَ»… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences كئس k's The cup: the vessel of a served drink, always named with what it holds. Uses 1. كَأْس → "cup" : the cup passed around or served; the text specifies its mixture or its sou… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences كافور kafwr Camphor: the aromatic substance that gives a cup its mixture. Uses 1. كَافُورًا → "camphor" : the ingredient of the mixture, named once. «كَانَ مِزَاجُهَا كَافُورًا» — "w… Read the entry → Sealed23 occurrences كان kan To introduce a striking comparison, set out as a hypothesis: "it is as if". Joined to the interjection وَيْ, the comparison becomes the sudden recognition of an overlooke… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences كبب kbb To overturn face to the ground: a forced fall, head first, opposed to walking upright. Uses 1. فَكُبَّتْ → "toppled" : faces thrown forward into the Fire, unable to hold… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences كبت kbt To bring low with humiliation: an inflicted defeat that leaves the adversary on the ground, deprived of what he aimed at. Uses 1. يَكْبِتَهُمْ → "lay them low" : one of t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences كبد kbd Toilsome effort: the condition of difficulty in which the human being is created. Uses 1. كَبَد → "hardship" : the condition of effort in which the human being is placed… Read the entry → Sealed161 occurrences كبر kbr To be great: greatness, acknowledged to God or usurped by the creature, and the weight of what is great. Uses 1. ٱسْتَكْبَرَ, يَسْتَكْبِرُ, مُسْتَكْبِر, ٱسْتِكْبَار → "to… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences كبكب kbkb To make a mass topple over, head first, in a reduplicated movement. Uses 1. فَكُبْكِبُوا۟ → "flung" : the reduplicated passive: a crowd thrown over, body after body. «فَك… Read the entry → Sealed319 occurrences كتب ktb To write so as to fix and bind: the writing that records, prescribes or binds the one it concerns. Uses 1. ٱلْكِتَٰب → "the Scripture" : the writing given to a messenger;… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences كتم ktm To withhold: to keep back what one knows and is bound to say or show. Uses 1. تَكْتُمُوا۟, يَكْتُمُونَ, كَتَمَ → "withhold" : to withhold the truth one knows, or the test… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences كثب kthb Sand heaped into a dune: a mass that has lost all cohesion. Uses 1. كَثِيبًۭا → "a heap of sand" : what the mountains become, with مَهِيل, "poured-out". «وَكَانَتِ ٱلْجِب… Read the entry → Sealed167 occurrences كثر kthr Multitude, abundance: a large quantity, often set against the small number. Uses 1. كَثِير, كَثِيرَة → "many", "abundant" : a large quantity, said of people or of goods.… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences كدح kdh To make one's laborious way toward an end: a continuous spending of oneself, with a direction. Uses 1. كَادِحٌ · كَدْحًۭا → "You are indeed making your laborious way" : t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences كدر kdr To lose brightness while scattering: stars that dim and come apart. Uses 1. ٱنكَدَرَتْ → "disperse" : the stars coming apart, at the start of the series of signs. «وَإِذَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences كدى kda To stop short: to break off, of one's own accord, an endowment once begun. Uses 1. أَكْدَىٰ → "to stop short" : to cease endowing after having endowed little. «وَأَعْطَىٰ… Read the entry → Sealed282 occurrences كذب kdhb To say the opposite of what is true, or to hold as false what is true. Uses 1. كَذَبَ, كَٰذِب → "to lie", "liar" : to say what is false, knowingly. «وَإِنَّهُمْ لَكَٰذِبُ… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences كرب krb Extreme distress, the kind that presses from every side; the text names it at the moment God rescues from it. Uses 1. كَرْبٍۢ · ٱلْكَرْبِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ → "distress", "the im… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences كرر krr To come back over what has already happened: a return, or the repeating of a gesture. Uses 1. كَرَّةًۭ · كَرَّةٌ → "a return" : the return to the life of this world, wish… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences كرس krs The seat: that on which the one who holds authority sits. Uses 1. كُرْسِيُّهُ → "His Seat" : God's Seat, extending over the heavens and the earth. «وَسِعَ كُرْسِيُّهُ ٱلس… Read the entry → Sealed47 occurrences كرم krm Nobility shown through giving: to be noble, to be generous, to honor. Uses 1. كَرِيم → "generous" : what is given beyond what is due: provision, reward. «لَهُم مَّغْفِرَة… Read the entry → Sealed41 occurrences كره krh To recoil from what is repugnant, or to impose on another what is repugnant to him. Uses 1. كَرِهَ, كَٰرِه, كُرْه → "to be averse to", "to have an aversion to", "to disli… Read the entry → Sealed67 occurrences كسب ksb To acquire by one's own doing: what one gains by one's acts, for good or ill, and which comes back to oneself. Uses 1. كَسَبْتُمْ · كَسَبَتْ → "to earn", "what it earned"… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences كسد ksd The decline of a trade: goods that no longer sell, exchange that comes to a halt. Uses 1. كَسَادَهَا → "decline" : what one dreads for a trade. «وَتِجَٰرَةٌۭ تَخْشَوْنَ ك… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences كسف ksf The detached fragment: a part torn from a whole, said of the sky and the clouds. Uses 1. كِسَف, كِسْف → "a fragment", "fragments", "in pieces" : what comes loose from the… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences كسل ksl To act without drive: the slowness of one who performs an act without adhering to it. Uses 1. كُسَالَىٰ → "lazily" : the state of those who go to the Contact without adhe… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences كسو ksw To clothe: to lay on a body what covers it, garment or flesh. Uses 1. كِسْوَة, ٱكْسُوهُمْ → "clothing", "to clothe" : the garment owed to those in one's charge. «وَعَلَى… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences كشط ksht To detach at a stroke what covers, as one strips off a skin. Uses 1. كُشِطَتْ → "is stripped away" : the sky removed like a skin. «وَإِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ كُشِطَتْ» — "and whe… Read the entry → Sealed20 occurrences كشف kshf To remove what covers: to remove a harm that weighs, to bare what was veiled, to uncover what is kept hidden. Uses 1. كَشَفَ عَن, يَكْشِفُ, ٱكْشِفْ → "to remove" : to tak… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences كظم kzm To hold a strong emotion within without letting it out, by mastery or under oppression. Uses 1. ٱلْكَٰظِمِينَ ٱلْغَيْظَ → "restrain their rage" : chosen mastery, counted… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences كعب k'b The point of articulation where two segments of the body meet and take their movement. Uses 1. ٱلْكَعْبَيْن → "knees" : the joint that bounds the washing of the legs. «وَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences كفت kft To contain in one place what is scattered: the earth that holds within it the living and the dead. Uses 1. كِفَات → "a receptacle" : the earth as the place that contains… Read the entry → Sealed524 occurrences كفر kfr To cover; hence to disown: to cover over an acknowledged blessing or truth so as to refuse to acknowledge it. Uses 1. كَفَرَ, كَفَرُوا۟, يَكْفُرُونَ → "disown" : to refus… Read the entry → Sealed15 occurrences كفف kff To close the hand: to hold back a gesture, or to hold a whole set with nothing left out. Uses 1. كَفَّ, كُفُّوٓا۟, يَكُفُّونَ → "to hold back" : to hold back hands, viole… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences كفل kfl To have a person or a commitment under one's responsibility: to have custody of it, to stand guarantor for it. Uses 1. كَفَّلَ, يَكْفُلُ → "custody" : to have a child in… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences كفو kfw The counterpart: what would counterbalance another, at the same rank. Uses 1. كُفُوًا → "counterpart" : denying that any counterpart of God exists. «وَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُۥ ك… Read the entry → Sealed33 occurrences كفى kfa To suffice: to be by itself what one needs, without other recourse. Uses 1. وَكَفَىٰ بِٱللَّهِ → "God suffices as …" : the formula that sets God as sole recourse. «وَكَفَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences كلء kl' To keep watch without respite, by night as by day. Uses 1. يَكْلَؤُكُم → "watches over" : continuous guard, which none can provide against God. «مَن يَكْلَؤُكُم بِٱلَّيْل… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences كلب klb The dog, and the training of the hunting dog. Uses 1. ٱلْكَلْب, كَلْبُهُم → "the dog" : the animal, in an image or in an account. «فَمَثَلُهُۥ كَمَثَلِ ٱلْكَلْبِ» — "His… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences كلح klh To grimace, lips drawn back: the face contracted by burning. Uses 1. كَٰلِحُونَ → "they will grimace therein, lips drawn back" : the effect, on the face, of the Fire that… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences كلف klf To impose a charge, always measured by the capacity of the one who receives it. Uses 1. كَلَّفَ, يُكَلِّفُ, نُكَلِّفُ, تُكَلَّفُ → "to impose", "to be charged" : to assig… Read the entry → Sealed328 occurrences كلل kll The kalala: the estate of one who leaves neither ascendant nor descendant. The same letters give the word كُلّ, the whole or each of its members. Uses 1. كَلَٰلَة → "in t… Read the entry → Sealed75 occurrences كلم klm To speak: to say an articulated word, and the word thus said. Uses 1. كَلَّمَ, يُكَلِّمُ, تَكَلَّمَ → "to speak" : to address speech. «وَكَلَّمَ ٱللَّهُ مُوسَىٰ تَكْلِيمً… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences كلو klw The dual of totality: "each of the two", said of a pair taken whole. Uses 1. كِلْتَا → "each of the two" : feminine dual, agreeing with "the two gardens". «كِلْتَا ٱلْجَن… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences كمل kml An attained fullness: what is brought to its full, with nothing lacking or remaining. Uses 1. أَكْمَلْتُ, لِتُكْمِلُوا۟ → "perfect", "make full" : to bring a Law or a cou… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences كمم kmm The sheath that holds the fruit before it comes out. Uses 1. أَكْمَامِهَا → "its sheath" : the sheath from which every fruit comes out. «وَمَا تَخْرُجُ مِن ثَمَرَٰتٍۢ مِّ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences كمه kmh Blindness from birth. Uses 1. ٱلْأَكْمَه → "the born-blind" : the one who has never seen, named first among those Issa restores. «وَأُبْرِئُ ٱلْأَكْمَهَ وَٱلْأَبْرَصَ» —… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences كند knd Obstinate ingratitude: refusing the favour received while knowing it. Uses 1. لَكَنُودٌۭ → "rebelliously ungrateful" : a lasting disposition of the human being toward his… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences كنز knz Treasure amassed and kept; the verb says accumulation that withholds instead of spending. Uses 1. كَنز, كُنُوز → "treasure", "treasures" : wealth amassed, neutral in itse… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences كنس kns To disappear by going back into shelter, as stars returning to their lair. Uses 1. ٱلْكُنَّس → "that hide" : the stars at the end of their course. «بِٱلْخُنَّسِ ٱلْجَوَار… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences كنن knn To envelop so as to keep sheltered: what one holds within, what obstructs, what is preserved. Uses 1. أَكْنَنتُمْ, تُكِنُّ → "to shelter", "to conceal within oneself" : t… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences كهف khf The cave: a hollow in the mountain where one withdraws into shelter. Uses 1. ٱلْكَهْف, كَهْفِهِمْ → "the Cave", "their cave" : the refuge of the young people. «إِذْ أَوَى… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences كهل khl The prime: the full maturity of a lifetime, set opposite the cradle. Uses 1. كَهْل → "in his prime" : the second term of the pair cradle / prime. «وَيُكَلِّمُ ٱلنَّاسَ فِ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences كهن khn The soothsayer: one who claims to tell the unknown by divination; the text refuses this name to the messenger. Uses 1. كَاهِن → "soothsayer" : always denied, paired with… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences كوب kwb The goblet: a drinking vessel without a handle. Uses 1. أَكْوَاب → "goblets" : the goblets passed around or set down. «بِصِحَافٍۢ مِّن ذَهَبٍۢ وَأَكْوَابٍۢ» — "Trays of g… Read the entry → Sealed24 occurrences كود kwd To be on the verge of: the event that draws near without coming to pass. Uses 1. كَادَ, كِدتَّ → "nearly", "had almost" : in the past, the approach of a fact that did not… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences كور kwr To wrap: to fold one thing over another in a circular movement. Uses 1. يُكَوِّرُ → "to wrap" : the reciprocal movement of night and day. «يُكَوِّرُ ٱلَّيْلَ عَلَى ٱلنَّه… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences كوكب kwkb The heavenly body: a luminous celestial body, distinct from the star. Uses 1. كَوْكَب, ٱلْكَوَاكِب → "heavenly body" : the body seen, the body that adorns, the body used… Read the entry → Sealed1390 occurrences كون kwn To be: existence that holds, that comes to be, and the place where it holds. Uses 1. كَانَ · كَانَتِ → "to be", "to become" : the state held or reached. «وَكَانَتِ ٱلْجِب… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences كوى kwa To mark by fire: to imprint a burn by means of heated matter. Uses 1. تُكْوَىٰ → "to sear" : the mark left on the body by the heated metal. «فَتُكْوَىٰ بِهَا جِبَاهُهُمْ… Read the entry → Sealed35 occurrences كيد kyd To devise a scheme: a skillful plan carried out against someone, under cover. Uses 1. كَيْد → "scheme", "scheming" : the plan devised against someone; that of the adversa… Read the entry → Sealed83 occurrences كيف kyf How: a question or exclamation about the manner in which something happens or happened. Uses 1. كَيْفَ → "how" : a question about manner, or a reproach of an incoherence.… Read the entry → Sealed16 occurrences كيل kyl To measure a volume, chiefly of foodstuffs; the measure so given. Uses 1. ٱلْكَيْل, ٱلْمِكْيَال → "the measure" : the measure given in exchange, paired with the balance.… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences كين kyn To give way through weakness: to bend, because one can hold out no longer. Uses 1. ٱسْتَكَانُوا۟ → "to bend" : always denied: those who do not bend before the adversary,… Read the entry → Sealed16 occurrences لبب lbb Intelligence: the finest part of understanding, the one that receives a sign, remembers it and responds to it. Uses 1. أُولُو ٱلْأَلْبَٰب, أُولِى ٱلْأَلْبَٰب → "the posse… Read the entry → Sealed31 occurrences لبث lbth To remain for a time in a place or a state: a time measured afterwards, which those who remained almost always judge too short. Uses 1. لَبِثَ, لَبِثْتُمْ, يَلْبَثُوا۟, ل… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences لبد lbd What is pressed into a compact mass, where the elements can no longer be told apart. Uses 1. لِبَدًا → "in dense multitude" : people pressed into a single mass. «كَادُوا۟… Read the entry → Sealed23 occurrences لبس lbs To cover one thing with another: the body with a garment, and, by the same image, one reality with another that hides or blurs it. Uses 1. لِبَاس → "garment" : what cover… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences لبن lbn Milk: the drink that livestock give, and that the Garden promises unspoiled. Uses 1. لَّبَنًا, لَّبَنٍۢ → "milk" : milk drawn from between chyme and blood; the milk of th… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences لجء lj' The place one runs to for shelter when a peril presses. Uses 1. مَلْجَأ → "sanctuary" : the place one flees to under threat; the text says there is none against God, exce… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences لجج ljj To sink in without return: into water without bottom, or into a conduct one no longer comes out of. Uses 1. لَجُّوا۟, لَّلَجُّوا۟ → "be mired" : to sink into a conduct wi… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences لحد lhd To depart from the straight line toward one side: to turn a meaning off its course, to lean toward someone, or to withdraw apart for shelter. Uses 1. يُلْحِدُونَ فِى, إِل… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences لحف lhf To press a request until one imposes on the person solicited. Uses 1. إِلْحَافًا → "insistently" : the manner of asking that clings and forces attention. «لَا يَسْـَٔلُون… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences لحق lhq To join, or to cause to join: to come after those who went ahead and be joined to them. Uses 1. يَلْحَقُوا۟ → "to join" : to come after those who went ahead. «بِٱلَّذِينَ… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences لحم lhm Flesh: the matter of the body, of beast or man, that is eaten or that clothes the bones. Uses 1. وَلَحْمَ, لَحْمًۭا, لَحْمَ → "flesh" : flesh that is eaten, permitted or… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences لحن lhn The inflection of speech: the manner of saying, which lets show what the words do not say. Uses 1. لَحْنِ ٱلْقَوْلِ → "the tone of their saying" : the tone, which betrays… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences لحى lha The beard. Uses 1. بِلِحْيَتِى → "by the beard" : the beard by which someone is seized. «لَا تَأْخُذْ بِلِحْيَتِى وَلَا بِرَأْسِىٓ» — "do not seize me by the beard nor by… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences لدد ldd Fierceness in dispute: to oppose without ever yielding. Uses 1. أَلَدُّ, لُّدًّۭا → "fierce" : the one who contends fiercely; a whole people so disposed. «وَهُوَ أَلَدُّ… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences لذذ ldhdh What is delicious: the pleasure one tastes, in drinking or in seeing. Uses 1. لَذَّةٍۢ, لَّذَّةٍۢ → "delightful", "delicious" : the drink of the Garden, delicious for who… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences لزب lzb To hold and stick: the quality of a substance that adheres and keeps the shape given to it. Uses 1. لَازِب → "clinging" : qualifies the clay from which humans are created… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences لزم lzm To attach to someone a thing that no longer comes off: to impose it, bind it to him, make it inevitable. Uses 1. أَنُلْزِمُكُمُوهَا, وَأَلْزَمَهُمْ → "to impose", "to bin… Read the entry → Sealed25 occurrences لسن lsn The tongue: the organ that speaks, and the speech of a people that it carries. Uses 1. لِسَان (organ) → "tongue" : the organ of speech. «وَٱحْلُلْ عُقْدَةًۭ مِّن لِّسَانِ… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences لطف ltf To act with a finesse that is not seen, and that still reaches its aim exactly. Uses 1. ٱللَّطِيف → "the Subtle" : divine name, almost always joined to the knowledge that… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences لظى lza The flame that burns with ardour: the name of a fire, and the verb of the fire that flares up. Uses 1. لَظَىٰ → "the ardent Flame" : name of the fire that calls the one w… Read the entry → Sealed20 occurrences لعب l'b To play: to act without serious purpose, for nothing that lasts. Uses 1. لَعِب, لَعِبًۭا → "play" : what is done without import: the present life, or the Law turned into… Read the entry → Sealed41 occurrences لعن l'n To curse: to pronounce against someone a sentence that removes him from benevolence, for a stated cause. Uses 1. لَعَنَ, يَلْعَنُ → "curse" : God's act, or that of people… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences لغب lghb The exhaustion that follows prolonged effort; the text names it only to deny it. Uses 1. لُغُوب → "weariness" : exhaustion after effort, always negated. «وَلَا يَمَسُّنَا… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences لغو lghw Idle talk: speech without weight, let slip without commitment. Uses 1. ٱللَّغْوِ, ٱللَّغْوَ → "idle talk" : the vain speech from which believers turn away. «وَٱلَّذِينَ ه… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences لفت lft To turn: to turn the head toward what one leaves, or to turn someone away from the path he follows. Uses 1. يَلْتَفِتْ → "to turn around" : to turn the head back, at the… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences لفح lfh To strike head-on, by fire: the burn that hits the face. Uses 1. تَلْفَحُ → "scorch" : the fire striking the face. «تَلْفَحُ وُجُوهَهُمُ ٱلنَّارُ» — "the Fire will scorch… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences لفظ lfz To bring out of the mouth: to utter a word. Uses 1. يَلْفِظُ → "to utter" : the emission of speech, at once recorded. «مَّا يَلْفِظُ مِن قَوْلٍ إِلَّا لَدَيْهِ رَقِيبٌ عَ… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences لفف lff To press one against another by winding: to intertwine. Uses 1. لَفِيف → "intertwined" : people brought back together, pressed to one another. «جِئْنَا بِكُمْ لَفِيفًۭا»… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences لقب lqb The nickname applied to someone to belittle him. Uses 1. ٱلْأَلْقَٰب → "nicknames" : names given to wound, exchanged in addressing one another. «وَلَا تَنَابَزُوا۟ بِٱلْأ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences لقح lqh To fecundate: to carry and pass on what makes a production possible. Uses 1. لَوَٰقِح → "fecundating" : qualifies the winds, first link of the rain that gives drink. «وَأ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences لقط lqt To pick up what one finds on one's way; in the text, a child taken in. Uses 1. يَلْتَقِطْهُ, فَٱلْتَقَطَهُۥٓ → "pick up" : to find a child without seeking him, and take h… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences لقف lqf To snap up at a stroke: to seize and make vanish what lies before one. Uses 1. تَلْقَفُ, تَلْقَفْ → "snap up" : Moussa's staff making the illusion vanish. «فَإِذَا هِىَ ت… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences لقم lqm To swallow in one gulp, whole. Uses 1. فَٱلْتَقَمَهُ → "to swallow" : the fish that swallows Younes. «فَٱلْتَقَمَهُ ٱلْحُوتُ وَهُوَ مُلِيمٌۭ» — "then the fish swallowed h… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences لقمان lqman Proper name: Luqman, to whom God gave wisdom and who exhorts his son. Uses 1. لُقْمَٰنَ, لُقْمَٰنُ → "Luqman" : the sage who receives wisdom and passes it on to his son.… Read the entry → Sealed146 occurrences لقى lqa To set face to face: to be in front of someone (to meet), to welcome what comes toward one (to receive), or to put a thing before one (to throw, offer, address). Uses 1.… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences لمح lmh The glance that passes in an instant: the blink of an eye, measure of the shortest time. Uses 1. كَلَمْحِ ٱلْبَصَرِ → "like the blink of an eye" : the speed of the divine… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences لمز lmz To disparage by insinuation: to hit someone with veiled words, without attacking him openly. Uses 1. يَلْمِزُكَ, يَلْمِزُونَ, تَلْمِزُوٓا۟ → "disparage by insinuation" :… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences لمس lms To touch: to lay one's hand on a thing; and from there, to grope for what is out of reach. Uses 1. فَلَمَسُوهُ, لَمَسْنَا → "to touch" : direct contact, by the hand or by… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences لمم lmm To draw to oneself in a brief gesture: to touch in passing without staying, to call to come, to gather up the whole. Uses 1. ٱللَّمَم → "slight lapses" : what one only br… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences لهب lhb Flame: the vivid fire that rises and is seen. Uses 1. لَهَب → "flame" : the rising fire, against which nothing protects. «وَلَا يُغْنِى مِنَ ٱللَّهَبِ» — "nor availing ag… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences لهث lhth To pant: the short breath that does not stop, whatever is done. Uses 1. يَلْهَث → "it pants" : the state of the dog, whether burdened or left alone. «إِن تَحْمِلْ عَلَيْه… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences لهم lhm To inspire: to place directly within a being what it knows, without intermediate teaching. Uses 1. أَلْهَمَ → "inspire" : to place within the Self, from its shaping, the… Read the entry → Sealed16 occurrences لهو lhw To distract: to occupy attention to the point of turning it away from the essential. Uses 1. لَهْو → "distraction" : what occupies without leading anywhere; paired with p… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences لوح lwh The surface exposed to sight: the board one presents and reads, and what changes the look of what it exposes. Uses 1. ٱلْأَلْوَاح, لَوْح → "the Tablets", "a Tablet" : the… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences لوذ lwdh To take cover behind another so as to withdraw unseen. Uses 1. لِوَاذًۭا → "furtively" : the manner of leaving the assembly, under cover of the others. «ٱلَّذِينَ يَتَسَل… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences لولو lwlw The pearl: the jewel drawn from the sea, image of what is precious and kept intact. Uses 1. لُؤْلُؤ (adornment) → "pearls" : adornment joined to gold in the gardens. «مِن… Read the entry → Sealed14 occurrences لوم lwm To censure: to lay on someone, by speech, the fault of an act. Uses 1. لُمْتُنَّنِى, تَلُومُونِى, لُومُوٓا۟ → "censure" : to address censure to someone, or to oneself. «ف… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences لون lwn Color, most often named in its variety, as a sign of created diversity. Uses 1. لَوْن → "color" : the color of a thing, asked for in order to recognize it. «يُبَيِّن لَّن… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences لوى lwa To twist: to bend out of its line what should go straight, the tongue, the word or the head. Uses 1. يَلْوُۥنَ, لَيًّۢا → "twist" : to twist the tongue so as to pass off… Read the entry → Sealed92 occurrences ليل lyl Night: the time of darkness that alternates with day. Uses 1. ٱلَّيْل → "night" : the time that returns with day, and that God governs. «وَلَهُ ٱخْتِلَٰفُ ٱلَّيْلِ وَٱلنَ… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences لين lyn To become supple, to make supple: what was hard gives way and lets itself be worked. Uses 1. لِنتَ, لَيِّن → "to be gentle", "gently" : gentleness toward others, in condu… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences مؤتفكة m'tfkh That which has been overturned, turned upside down: the text thus designates cities by the fate they suffered. Uses 1. ٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَٰت → "the overturned cities" : the plu… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences مئى m'a The number one hundred: an exact count, applied to durations, quantities and numbers of men. Uses 1. مِا۟ئَة → "hundred" : the cardinal, alone or in a compound (three hun… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ماجوج majwj A proper name, always joined to Yajuj: the second term of a pair the text never names separately. Uses 1. مَأْجُوج → "Majuj" : the name is kept as it is, always after Yaj… Read the entry → Sealed70 occurrences متع mt' To draw from a thing a benefit that lasts for a time: enjoyment; and, concretely, the use one draws from a thing, the item one possesses, the baggage one carries along. U… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences متن mtn What holds under strain and does not give way: the solidity of God's scheme, and God Himself, the Unshakeable. Uses 1. مَتِينٌ → "solid" : qualifies the scheme God sets a… Read the entry → Sealed169 occurrences مثل mthl What stands for another thing by resemblance: the example that illustrates and demonstrates, the like that equals; in Form V, taking the form of another. Uses 1. مَثَل, م… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences مجد mjd Generous, noble glory: a greatness that spreads in benefits. Uses 1. ٱلْمَجِيد → "the Glorious" : a name of God, within a series of names of goodness. «ٱلْمَجِيدُ فَعَّال… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences مجوس mjws Name of a religious group, the Magians, cited once among other communities. Uses 1. ٱلْمَجُوس → "the Magians" : a group named in the list of communities God will judge be… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences محص mhs To purify through trial: to put through a test so as to set apart what is pure from what is not. Uses 1. وَلِيُمَحِّصَ → "purify" : the purpose given to the trial of batt… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences محق mhq To bring to naught: to strip a thing of all its substance, until nothing of it remains. Uses 1. يَمْحَقُ, وَيَمْحَقَ → "to bring to naught" : God is the subject; the obje… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences محل mhl The force that does not yield: the power to seize and to carry through what is willed, with nothing able to resist it. Uses 1. شَدِيدُ ٱلْمِحَالِ → "of a formidable vigor… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences محن mhn To examine: to verify by a targeted test what lies within. Uses 1. ٱمْتَحَنَ → "to examine" : God examines the cores to find guardedness in them. «ٱلَّذِينَ ٱمْتَحَنَ ٱلل… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences محو mhw To blot out one thing so that another may stand in its place: the text always joins to the blotting out what is established. Uses 1. يَمْحُو, مَحَوْنَا, يَمْحُ → "to blot… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences مخر mkhr To cleave the water while advancing: the movement of the ship that opens the waves before it. Uses 1. مَوَاخِر → "cleaving through" : the plural participle, said of vesse… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences مخض mkhd The pangs of childbirth: the stirring that precedes delivery. Uses 1. ٱلْمَخَاض → "the pangs of childbirth" : what drives Maryam toward the palm tree. «فَأَجَآءَهَا ٱلْمَ… Read the entry → Sealed32 occurrences مدد mdd To lengthen what is already there: to extend in space, to prolong in time, to add a supply to what exists. Uses 1. مَدَّ, مَدَدْنَٰهَا → "extend", "spread out" : to lengt… Read the entry → Sealed27 occurrences مدن mdn Two uses of one root: the proper name Madyan, Shu'ayb's people and land, and the city where a power sits, "the Capital". Uses 1. مَدْيَن → "Madyan" : the name of the peop… Read the entry → Sealed38 occurrences مرء mr' The human person taken one by one: ٱمْرُؤ the man, ٱمْرَأَة the woman, often named by the bond that ties her to another. Uses 1. ٱمْرَأَة, ٱمْرَأَتُ → "the wife" : the wo… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences مرج mrj To let two things go freely toward each other: seas that flow together without merging; without a limit, this movement becomes the confused affair. Uses 1. مَرَجَ → "made… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences مرح mrh To strut: pride passing into the gait and putting itself on display. Uses 1. مَرَحًا → "strutting" : a manner of walking, forbidden by a repeated injunction. «وَلَا تَمْش… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences مرد mrd Two uses that the text does not link: to harden in refusal to the point of rebellion; to make a surface smooth and polished. Uses 1. مَرِيد, مَارِد → "rebellious" : the c… Read the entry → Sealed34 occurrences مرر mrr To pass: to cross a point and go beyond it; hence the time, each passage that is counted, and what goes on without stopping. Uses 1. مَرَّة, مَرَّتَيْن → "time", "twice"… Read the entry → Sealed24 occurrences مرض mrd A disorder that strikes the body or the core: sickness. Uses 1. مَرَض → "sickness" : the disorder of the core, which can grow. «فِى قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌۭ» — "There is, in t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences مروه mrwh Place name: Marwa, one of the two markers named together with Safa. Uses 1. ٱلْمَرْوَة → "Marwa" : the second term of the pair Safa and Marwa. «إِنَّ ٱلصَّفَا وَٱلْمَرْوَ… Read the entry → Sealed20 occurrences مرى mra To enter into contention: to contest what is given, and to dispute over what one refuses to hold as certain. Uses 1. مِرْيَة, ٱلْمُمْتَرِينَ → "contention", "those who co… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences مزج mzj What is added to a drink to compose it: the blend of a cup, named each time. Uses 1. مِزَاجُهَا, مِزَاجُهُۥ → "blend" : the named element that composes the cup: camphor,… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences مزق mzq To shred until the dispersal is complete: a body undone, a people scattered. Uses 1. مُزِّقْتُمْ, مَزَّقْنَٰهُمْ, كُلَّ مُمَزَّقٍ → "utterly disintegrated", "We disintegr… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences مزن mzn The rain-laden clouds, from which comes down the water one drinks. Uses 1. ٱلْمُزْن → "the clouds" : the source of fresh water, in a question that asks who brings it. «ءَ… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences مسح msh To pass the hand over a surface: over the face, the hands or the head in the rite, over the legs and necks of horses. Uses 1. فَٱمْسَحُوا۟, وَٱمْسَحُوا۟ → "wipe" : the ge… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences مسخ mskh To fix in place, to take away all movement; the verse itself gives the measure: neither going forward nor returning. Uses 1. مَسَخْنَٰهُمْ → "freeze" : to immobilize wher… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences مسد msd A plant fibre twisted into rope: the raw material of a cord. Uses 1. مَسَد → "twisted fiber" : the material of the rope. «فِى جِيدِهَا حَبْلٌۭ مِّن مَّسَدٍۭ» — "a rope of… Read the entry → Sealed61 occurrences مسس mss To touch: to come into direct contact with someone, through the body or through what befalls him. Uses 1. مَسَّ, يَمَسُّ, يَمْسَسْ → "to touch" : a good, an evil, a punis… Read the entry → Sealed27 occurrences مسك msk To hold without letting go: to keep by oneself, to hold in place what would fall, or to hold oneself fast to what holds. Uses 1. أَمْسِكُوهُنَّ, أَمْسِكْ, إِمْسَاك → "ret… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences مسو msw To enter the evening: one of the two bounds of the day, joined to the morning. Uses 1. تُمْسُونَ → "you enter the evening" : the evening when God is glorified, facing the… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences مشج mshj What is made of several elements joined into one: the conjoined drop from which the human being is created. Uses 1. أَمْشَاجٍۢ → "conjoined" : a plural qualifying the dro… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences مشعر msh'r The place where God is remembered on the return from Arafat: a marker given to be sensed, from the root ش ع ر. Uses 1. ٱلْمَشْعَرِ ٱلْحَرَامِ → "the Inviolable Perceptibl… Read the entry → Sealed23 occurrences مشى msha To walk: to move on one's feet; the manner of walking says what the walker is. Uses 1. يَمْشِى, يَمْشُونَ → "to walk" : movement, literal and figurative. «فَمِنْهُم مَّن… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences مصر msr Name of a country: Egypt, the setting of the accounts of Youssof and of Moussa. Uses 1. مِصْر, مِّصْرَ, بِمِصْرَ → "Egypt" : the country where Youssof is sold and then es… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences مضغ mdgh The chewed morsel: the stage in the forming of the human being that follows the clinging form and precedes the bones. Uses 1. مُضْغَة → "a lump" : the third stage of crea… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences مضى mda To go forward without return: to pursue one's way, or to pass once and for all. Uses 1. ٱمْضُوا۟, أَمْضِىَ, مُضِيًّا → "go", "journey", "go forward" : the way pursued tow… Read the entry → Sealed15 occurrences مطر mtr Rain, and to make it rain: what falls from the sky upon a place, most often as a punishment. Uses 1. أَمْطَرْنَا, فَأَمْطِرْ, أُمْطِرَتْ → "to rain down", "to fall" : the… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences مطو mtw To walk stretching oneself: the proud gait of one who thinks himself above others, a bodily gesture that shows an inner posture. Uses 1. يَتَمَطَّىٰ → "walking in vain pr… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences معز m'z The goat: the caprine species, named in the inventory of livestock by pairs. Uses 1. ٱلْمَعْزِ → "goats" : the second species of the list, after rams and ewes. «وَمِنَ ٱل… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences معن m'n The simplest aid owed between those who live near: the last degree of what one can refuse another. Uses 1. ٱلْمَاعُون → "assistance" : the minimal aid, withheld at the en… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences معى m'a The entrails, the organ that receives drink and food. Uses 1. أَمْعَآءَهُمْ → "entrails" : what the boiling water cuts to pieces. «وَسُقُوا۟ مَآءً حَمِيمًۭا فَقَطَّعَ أَم… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences مقت mqt The rejection that condemns: the loathing one bears, and the act that deserves it, the abomination. Uses 1. مَقْت → "loathing" : the rejection borne by God, or by man aga… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences مكث mkth To stay in place for a time, brief or without term: the word says remaining in place, the context says for how long. Uses 1. ٱمْكُثُوٓا۟, مَكَثَ → "to stay" : to wait in… Read the entry → Sealed43 occurrences مكر mkr To plot: to devise in secret a plan against someone; the human plot turns back on its authors, and God plots in return. Uses 1. مَكَرَ, يَمْكُرُ → "to plot" : the hidden… Read the entry → Sealed18 occurrences مكن mkn To establish: to give someone a firm place, with the means to act in it. Uses 1. مَكَّنَّا, مَّكَّنَّٰهُمْ, نُمَكِّن, مَكَّنِّى → "to establish" : giving a footing on the… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences مكو mkw Tumult: agitation taking the place of recollection. Uses 1. مُكَآءًۭ → "a tumult" : the Contact turned into agitation near the House. «إِلَّا مُكَآءًۭ وَتَصْدِيَةًۭ» — "w… Read the entry → Sealed40 occurrences ملء ml' To fill until the whole space is occupied; hence the court, those who occupy the visible place around power. Uses 1. لَأَمْلَأَنَّ, ٱمْتَلَأَ, مُلِئَ → "to fill", "to be… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ملح mlh Salt: salty water, set against sweet water in the pair of the two seas. Uses 1. مِلْحٌ → "salty" : a quality of one of the two waters, always followed by أُجَاج, "bitter"… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ملق mlq Want of means: the lack of resources that makes one fear no longer being able to feed one's own. Uses 1. إِمْلَٰق → "penury" : the want already present (6:151) or dreaded… Read the entry → Sealed118 occurrences ملك mlk To hold authority over a domain: the dominion that governs, the power to dispose of a thing, and the bond a pledge engages. Uses 1. ٱلْمُلْك, مُلْك → "dominion" : the dom… Read the entry → Sealed19 occurrences ملل mll The way a group follows and hands on: the doctrine; in Form IV, to dictate what is to be written. Uses 1. مِلَّة, مِلَّتِنَا, ٱلْمِلَّةِ → "the doctrine" : the way follow… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences ملو mlw To let go on in time: to grant a delay, a long duration; with the Diverter as subject, to dictate. Uses 1. نُمْلِى, أُمْلِى, أَمْلَيْتُ → "grant a delay" : the time left… Read the entry → Sealed17 occurrences منع mn' To set an obstacle: to prevent a thing from being done, or a good from reaching the one who awaits it. Uses 1. مَنَعَ, مَنَعَكَ → "to prevent" : an obstacle to an act: be… Read the entry → Sealed27 occurrences منن mnn To grace: to grant a benefit and let it be known, as one says "this is what I did for you". From God, it is the grace that decides a fate; from man, it is the gift he hol… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences منى mna To reach toward what one does not yet have: the wish toward its object, the poured-out seed toward the life it carries. Uses 1. تَمَنَّىٰ, يَتَمَنَّوْنَ → "to wish" : to… Read the entry → Sealed16 occurrences مهد mhd To arrange an expanse for what is to rest there: the cradle, the bed, the earth laid out for man. Uses 1. ٱلْمَهْد → "the cradle" : the place prepared for the infant. «وَ… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences مهل mhl Two uses that the text does not link: to leave someone a short, counted time, the respite; molten metal. Uses 1. مَهِّلْ, أَمْهِلْ → "grant a respite" : a short, counted… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences مهما mhma Conditional particle of universal scope: "whatever", which opens the condition to every possible case. Uses 1. مَهْمَا → "whatever" : introduces the condition, specified… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences مهن mhn Of little worth: what is held as nothing, whether the word recalls man's origin or serves to belittle an opponent. Uses 1. مَّآءٍ مَّهِين → "a despised water" : man's ori… Read the entry → Sealed165 occurrences موت mwt The cessation of life, for a being or for the earth: death, to die, to cause to die. Uses 1. ٱلْمَوْت, مَوْتِهَا → "death" : the hour when life ceases. «حَذَرَ ٱلْمَوْتِ»… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences موج mwj The movement of water that rises and envelops: the swell, the wave, and whatever surges like it. Uses 1. مَوْج, ٱلْمَوْجُ, مَّوْجٌۭ → "waves", "a wave", "the swell" : wat… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences مور mwr To be stirred by a movement that comes and goes, for what ordinarily stays in place: the sky, the earth. Uses 1. تَمُورُ, مَوْرًا → "be shaken with turbulence", "sway" :… Read the entry → Sealed86 occurrences مول mwl What one possesses, goods: most often named by the use made of them, spent or devoured. Uses 1. أَمْوَٰل → "goods" : what one possesses, spent or devoured. «وَلَا تَأْكُل… Read the entry → Sealed63 occurrences موه mwh Water: what comes down from the sky, gives life back to the earth, and from which every living thing is made. Uses 1. مَآء → "water" : water sent down from the sky, which… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences ميد myd To sway: the movement of the earth that the firm anchors prevent. A homonymous form, مَآئِدَة, names the table sent down from the sky. Uses 1. تَمِيدَ → "to sway" : alway… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences مير myr To victual: to carry provisions to those who lack them. Uses 1. وَنَمِيرُ → "we shall victual" : the brothers, in a time of dearth, for their family. «وَنَمِيرُ أَهْلَنَا… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences ميز myz To separate into distinct parts: to sort the vile from the good, to stand apart, to split. Uses 1. يَمِيزَ, لِيَمِيزَ → "to distinguish" : God separates the vile from the… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ميكال mykal A proper name of an Agent, named only once, beside Jibril. Uses 1. مِيكَىٰل → "Mikal" : the name is kept as it is. «وَجِبْرِيلَ وَمِيكَىٰلَ» — "Jibril, and Mikal" (2:98)… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences ميل myl To lean: to leave the balance on one side, out of desire, out of partiality, or to swoop down on someone. Uses 1. تَمِيلُوا۟, مَيْلًا, ٱلْمَيْلِ → "to lean", "a leaning"… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences نئى n'a To draw away, to move off from what calls: from the acknowledgment owed for a favor, or from what one forbids to others. Uses 1. نَـَٔا → "draw away" : the human being, f… Read the entry → Sealed80 occurrences نبء nb' To pass on to someone the knowledge of a fact: the verb names the act of informing, the noun what is thus reported. Uses 1. أَنۢبِئْهُم, أَنۢبَأَهُم, فَيُنَبِّئُكُم → "in… Read the entry → Sealed26 occurrences نبت nbt To sprout, come out of the earth and grow; in the causative, to make grow. The text makes it the image of every growth God grants. Uses 1. أَنۢبَتَ, يُنۢبِتُ → "make grow… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences نبذ nbdh To throw away from oneself what one no longer wants to keep: a pact, a Scripture, a person; in the reflexive form, to set oneself apart. Uses 1. نَبَذَ → "cast aside", "c… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نبز nbz To call one another by nicknames: to name another by a name one inflicts on him, in an exchange that repeats. Uses 1. تَنَابَزُوا۟ → "call each other by nicknames" : reci… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نبط nbt To bring out what lies hidden at the bottom, as one makes water rise from a well: to draw out the substance of a piece of information. Uses 1. يَسْتَنۢبِطُونَهُۥ → "seek… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences نبع nb' Water welling from the earth: the spring, demanded as a sign or given along the course of the rain. Uses 1. يَنۢبُوع, يَنَٰبِيع → "a spring", "springs" : water gushing fr… Read the entry → Sealed80 occurrences نبو nbw The one who carries the information. The word is read on the root of information: the informant receives information from God and carries it to people, as the messenger c… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نتق ntq To tear a mass away from its base and hold it suspended. Uses 1. نَتَقْنَا → "We tore out" : the mountain torn out and held above them. «وَإِذْ نَتَقْنَا ٱلْجَبَلَ فَوْقَ… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences نثر nthr To scatter: to spread out into separate elements what formed, or could form, a whole; the gesture takes its value from the context. Uses 1. مَنثُور → "scattered" : partic… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نجد njd The high, open way; in the dual, the two ways that open before man. Uses 1. ٱلنَّجْدَيْن → "the two paths" : the dual: two directions given together, between which man ch… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نجس njs The impurity that keeps one away from a consecrated place: a judgment from which a rule of distancing follows. Uses 1. نَجَسٌ → "impurity" : predicate noun: the associato… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences نجم njm What appears and serves as a landmark: the star of the night; once, the plant that grows close to the ground. Uses 1. ٱلنُّجُومَ, وَبِٱلنَّجْمِ, وَٱلنَّجْمِ → "the stars"… Read the entry → Sealed84 occurrences نجو njw To draw apart from a danger or from a group: to be saved, or to talk apart. Uses 1. نَجَّىٰ, أَنجَىٰ → "to save" : to pull someone out of a peril, setting him apart from… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نحب nhb The term one has committed oneself to reach: a commitment carried through to its fulfillment. Uses 1. نَحْبَهُۥ → "their commitment" : what the believers true to the pact… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences نحت nht To carve a hard material to draw a form out of it: the mountain to make houses, the stone to make an idol. Uses 1. وَتَنْحِتُونَ, يَنْحِتُونَ → "carve" : to hollow the mo… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نحر nhr To stand facing a thing and carry it through to its end, without turning away from it. Uses 1. وَٱنْحَرْ → "fulfil it completely" : the imperative without complement: the… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences نحس nhs What strikes with misfortune: the ill-omened days of the icy wind, and the molten copper sent with the sheaf of fire. Uses 1. نَّحِسَاتٍۢ, نَحْسٍۢ → "ill-omened", "misfor… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences نحل nhl The attribution remitted as a matter of right, without its beneficiary having to claim it; the same radical names the bee. Uses 1. نِحْلَة → "attribution of full right" :… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نخر nkhr Eaten away, hollowed from within until it crumbles: decayed bone. Uses 1. نَّخِرَةًۭ → "decayed" : bones emptied by decomposition. «أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَٰمًۭا نَّخِرَةًۭ» —… Read the entry → Sealed20 occurrences نخل nkhl The palm tree, tree of the garden and of provision. Uses 1. ٱلنَّخْلِ, نَّخِيلٍۢ → "palm tree", "palm trees" : the tree named among the crops that water brings forth. «وَ… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences ندد ndd The equal set at God's rank: one assigns to it the place and the love that belong to God. Uses 1. أَندَادًۭا → "equals" : always plural, object of جَعَلَ لِ or of ٱتَّخَذ… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences ندم ndm Regret that comes after the act, when it can no longer be undone. Uses 1. ٱلنَّٰدِمِينَ, نَٰدِمِينَ → "those who regret", "full of regret" : the state of one who finds hi… Read the entry → Sealed53 occurrences ندو ndw To call out aloud, across a distance; hence the circle where people gather and hail one another. Uses 1. نَادَىٰ, يُنَادِى → "call out to", "call" : the call sent toward… Read the entry → Sealed130 occurrences نذر ndhr To make known a word that binds: to warn others of what is coming, or to bind oneself by a vow. Uses 1. أَنذَرَ → "to warn" : to make known what is coming, so that whoeve… Read the entry → Sealed20 occurrences نزع nz' To pull towards oneself so as to tear out: to remove what held fast, or, among several, each pulling the matter his own way. Uses 1. وَتَنزِعُ, يَنزِعُ, لَنَنزِعَنَّ → "s… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences نزغ nzgh To prick so as to make one start, or to sow discord: the brief goad of the Diverter, which separates those who were close. Uses 1. يَنزَغَنَّكَ, نَزْغٌۭ → "to goad", "a g… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences نزف nzf To be drained of one's reason, as by drunkenness: what the cup of the garden does not do. Uses 1. يُنزَفُونَ, يُنزِفُونَ → "intoxication", "be intoxicated" : always denie… Read the entry → Sealed293 occurrences نزل nzl To descend: the movement from above to below, down to the halt and the welcome given to the one who arrives. Uses 1. أَنزَلَ, نَزَّلَ, وَنَزَّلْنَٰهُ → "send down" : reve… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences نسء ns' To defer, to set outside the count; in another use with no established link, the staff (مِنسَأَة). Uses 1. ٱلنَّسِىٓءُ → "the postponement" : the time left outside the co… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences نسب nsb The bond of filiation that ties one person to another by birth. Uses 1. نَسَب → "lineage" : the bond of birth, instituted by God among humans, and wrongly attributed to G… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences نسخ nskh To copy, to transcribe content from one medium onto another; the text never uses it for abrogating. Uses 1. نَنسَخْ, فَيَنسَخُ → "copy", "transcribe" : to reproduce a sig… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نسر nsr Proper name of an idol, the last of the five that the people of Nuh refuse to abandon. Uses 1. وَنَسْرًۭا → "Nasr" : the name kept as it is, at the end of the list. «وَلَ… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences نسف nsf To scatter a solid mass entirely, until no form of it remains. Uses 1. نَسَفَ, نَسْف → "scatter utterly" : to reduce a thing to scattered dust, the idol as the mountain.… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences نسك nsk To purify so as to make useful: the regulated practice of beneficence and sharing, which each community receives in its own form. Uses 1. مَنَاسِك → "beneficent practices… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences نسل nsl Two uses: offspring, the engendered lineage; and the rush of a crowd swarming out of a place. Uses 1. نَسْل → "offspring", "progeny" : what is engendered and continues, n… Read the entry → Sealed59 occurrences نسو nsw Women, named together; the word has no singular from its own root. Uses 1. ٱلنِّسَآءَ, ٱلنِّسَآءِ, نِسَآئِهِم, نِسَآئِكُم → "women", "their women", "your women" : women i… Read the entry → Sealed45 occurrences نسى nsa To forget: to let something leave one's memory, or to cease taking account of what one was warned of; said of God, to give the forgetful back the forgetting he chose. Use… Read the entry → Sealed28 occurrences نشء nsh' To bring into existence what was not: an act the text ascribes to God, marking the passage to constituted being. Uses 1. أَنشَأَ, يُنشِئُ → "bring into being" : to bring… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences نشر nshr To deploy: to extend what was folded, closed or gathered. Uses 1. مَنشُورًا, نُشِرَتْ → "deployed" : the writing opened before the one it concerns. «كِتَٰبًۭا يَلْقَىٰهُ… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences نشز nshz To rise up, to stand above one's place: bones that rise, an assembly that stands up, a spouse who rises against the other. Uses 1. نُشُوز → "unilateral breach", "persiste… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences نشط nsht To release with a brisk but measured gesture, halfway between wrenching and free gliding. Uses 1. ٱلنَّٰشِطَٰت, نَشْطًا → "those who release gently" : agents who release… Read the entry → Sealed14 occurrences نصارى nsara The name of a group, drawn from the root of helping: those who call themselves God's helpers. Uses 1. وَٱلنَّصَٰرَىٰ, ٱلنَّصَٰرَى, نَصَٰرَىٰ → "the Helpers" : the name th… Read the entry → Sealed33 occurrences نصب nsb To fix in place: the portion assigned to each, the marker or mountain set up, the fatigue that settles in the body. Uses 1. نَصِيب → "portion" : what is assigned and fixe… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences نصت nst To fall silent in order to listen: to suspend all speech so as to receive the word being spoken. Uses 1. وَأَنصِتُوا۟, أَنصِتُوا۟ → "be silent" : the silence asked for wh… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences نصح nsh To wish someone well and tell him so without ulterior motive: to advise sincerely, to be sincere toward. Uses 1. وَأَنصَحُ, وَنَصَحْتُ → "advise sincerely", "advise" : th… Read the entry → Sealed143 occurrences نصر nsr To help: to bring someone the aid that gets him through, when no other recourse suffices. Uses 1. نَصَرَ, يُنصَرُونَ → "to help", "to be helped" : to bring the aid that g… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نصرانى nsrana A name of belonging: one who belongs to the community of the Helpers. Uses 1. نَصْرَانِيًّا → "a Helper" : the member of the community named ٱلنَّصَٰرَىٰ. «مَا كَانَ إِبْ… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences نصف nsf Half: a whole divided into two equal parts, for inheritance, obligation, penalty or the night. Uses 1. نِصْف → "half" : the part equal to the other, in a whole divided in… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences نصو nsw The forelock, the lock of the brow: the point by which a whole being is seized. Uses 1. نَاصِيَة, ٱلنَّوَٰصِى → "the forelock" : to seize by the forelock is to hold the w… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نضج ndj To reach the end of the fire's action: to be consumed. Uses 1. نَضِجَتْ → "are consumed" : the completed state of the skin under the fire, which calls for its replacement… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نضخ ndkh To gush forth with force and abundance, like a spring under pressure. Uses 1. نَضَّاخَتَانِ → "gushing" : intensive form in the dual: the two springs never cease gushing.… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences نضد ndd To set things one upon another, in close order. Uses 1. مَنضُود, نَضِيد → "layered", "clustered" : similar elements laid in regular layers: stones, spathes, bunches. «حِج… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences نضر ndr The fresh brightness that appears on the face and makes the favour received visible. Uses 1. نَّاضِرَةٌ → "radiant" : the face that shines, on that Day. «وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نطح nth To strike with the horn: the death received from a blow of the horn. Uses 1. ٱلنَّطِيحَة → "the animal dead from a blow of the horn" : the beast killed by another's horn.… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences نطف ntf The drop, a minute quantity from which the text starts the forming of the human being. Uses 1. نُّطْفَةٍۢ, نُطْفَةًۭ → "drop" : the starting point of the creation of the… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences نطق ntq To articulate speech: the faculty of uttering, granted or withheld, always significant in the text. Uses 1. يَنطِقُونَ, يَنطِقُ → "utter" : to produce speech; often denie… Read the entry → Sealed129 occurrences نظر nzr To direct one's gaze at a thing; hence waiting, the gaze turned toward what is coming, and the delay granted for that wait. Uses 1. تَنظُرُونَ, فَيَنظُرُوا۟, يَنظُرُ, يَن… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences نعج n'j The ewe, a good of the flock, the measure of a claim in the dispute brought before Dawud. Uses 1. نَعْجَةًۭ, نَعْجَتِكَ, نِعَاجِهِۦ → "ewe" : the unit of the flock, count… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences نعس n's Drowsiness: a light sleep God sends as relief in the heart of the trial. Uses 1. نُعَاس → "drowsiness" : light sleep received from God, which envelops and soothes. «أَمَن… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نعق n'q To cry out toward what hears only the noise of the call, without receiving its meaning. Uses 1. يَنْعِقُ → "cry out" : one who cries out toward what receives only the sou… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نعل n'l The sandal, taken off at the order received in the sanctified valley. Uses 1. نَعْلَيْكَ → "your sandals" : the sandals Moussa must take off. «فَٱخْلَعْ نَعْلَيْكَ» — "Ta… Read the entry → Sealed144 occurrences نعم n'm Two branches under one radical: the favour bestowed, always tied back to its giver, and cattle; to them are joined well-being نَعْمَة, the praise نِعْمَ and the assent نَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نغض nghd To shake the head with a repeated movement, as a sign of doubt or mockery. Uses 1. فَسَيُنْغِضُونَ → "they will shake their heads" : the gesture that accompanies the incr… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نفث nfth To blow in short puffs from the lips; the intensive form says a breath that returns and insists. Uses 1. ٱلنَّفَّٰثَٰت → "those who blow and blow again" : the intensive p… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نفح nfh A whiff, a light touch: the faintest touch of a punishment, enough to draw a confession. Uses 1. نَفْحَةٌۭ → "a whiff" : the slightest touch of the punishment. «وَلَئِن م… Read the entry → Sealed20 occurrences نفخ nfkh To blow, to project a breath into a thing: into the Horn that opens the Day, into the human to give him life, into the fire to stoke it. Uses 1. نُفِخَ فِى → "be blown" :… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences نفد nfd To be exhausted: to reach the end of what one has, until nothing is left. Uses 1. نَفِدَ, يَنفَدُ → "be exhausted" : what is exhausted is finite; the negation is reserved… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences نفذ nfdh To pass right through: to cross a limit by piercing it rather than going around it. Uses 1. نَفَذَ مِن → "bore through" : to cross the confines of the heavens and the ear… Read the entry → Sealed18 occurrences نفر nfr To throw oneself in a rush, toward a thing or away from it: to mobilize, or to recoil; and the group that sets out together. Uses 1. ٱنفِرُوا۟, نَفَرَ → "mobilize" : to s… Read the entry → Sealed298 occurrences نفس nfs One's own breath, hence the being itself, that by which it designates itself: the Self; from the same breath come breathing and competing. Uses 1. نَفْس, أَنفُس → "the Se… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences نفش nfsh To spread in disorder until what was compact comes apart: the flock in the tilth, carded wool. Uses 1. نَفَشَتْ → "had trespassed" : the sheep that entered the tilth by n… Read the entry → Sealed50 occurrences نفع nf' To benefit: to bring someone a real good; the text almost always sets it against harm. Uses 1. نَفَعَ, يَنفَعُ → "benefit" : what truly serves, or does not serve, the one… Read the entry → Sealed111 occurrences نفق nfq To make a good leave one's possession toward a use or a recipient: to spend. From the same root, the tunnel, a way out under the earth, and the hypocrite, who shows a fai… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences نفل nfl What is given beyond what is due: the surplus, the addition. Uses 1. ٱلْأَنفَال → "the surpluses" : what exceeds the ordinary sharing, whose allocation belongs to God and… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نفى nfa To expel from the territory: exile as a sanction. Uses 1. يُنفَوْا۟ → "be exiled" : the last of the listed sanctions, which removes belonging to the territory. «أَوْ يُنف… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences نقب nqb To pierce a passage through what stands in the way; to travel through a land from end to end; the نَقِيب is the one placed at the head of a group. Uses 1. نَقْبًۭا → "pie… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences نقذ nqdh To pull someone out of a peril that holds him: to save, or to take back what was snatched. Uses 1. أَنقَذَ, يُنقِذُ → "to save" : to pull out of a real peril, or to say t… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences نقر nqr The brief, sharp strike: the small groove of the date-stone, measure of the minute, and the struck sound of the trumpet. Uses 1. نَقِيرًا, نَقِيرًۭا → "the groove of a da… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences نقص nqs To diminish: to take away from an expected quantity or measure, so that it falls short. Uses 1. نَقَصَ, يَنقُصُ → "diminish" : to make a thing lose part of its measure: t… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences نقض nqd To undo what had been tied: to break a concluded pact or oath, to undo a spun thread; figuratively, the weight that breaks the back. Uses 1. يَنقُضُونَ, تَنقُضُوا۟, نَقْض… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نقع nq' The dust raised in a cloud. Uses 1. نَقْعًۭا → "the dust" : the cloud raised by the charge, object of أَثَرْنَ. «فَأَثَرْنَ بِهِۦ نَقْعًۭا» — "stirring up the dust" (100:… Read the entry → Sealed17 occurrences نقم nqm To resent someone, to hold a grievance against him; in form VIII, to take vengeance: to have the sentence of that grievance carried out against him. Uses 1. تَنقِمُونَ, ت… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences نكب nkb The flank, the side: to swerve to the side of a path, and the flanks of the earth that one walks. Uses 1. نَاكِب عَن → "deviate from" : to leave the path by the side. «عَ… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences نكث nkth To undo what had been tied: to violate an oath or an engagement, as one unravels a firmly spun thread. Uses 1. نَكَثَ, يَنكُثُ → "violate" : to break oaths or an allegian… Read the entry → Sealed23 occurrences نكح nkh To conclude marriage: the act that unites by contract, always set within a framework of rules. Uses 1. تَنكِحُوا۟, تَنكِحَ, فَٱنكِحُوهُنَّ → "marry" : the simple verb: to… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نكد nkd To yield scantily: a meagre output, obtained with great difficulty. Uses 1. نَكِدًا → "scantily" : in adverbial use: what the vile land yields. «وَٱلَّذِى خَبُثَ لَا يَخْ… Read the entry → Sealed37 occurrences نكر nkr Not to recognize: what one cannot identify, or what one disavows. Uses 1. نَكِرَ, مُنكِرُون, مُنكَرُون → "find strange", "not recognize" : not to identify a person before… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences نكس nks To turn a thing against the direction of its course: the head that falls back, age that leads backward. Uses 1. نُكِسُوا۟, نَاكِسُو → "turned back upon their heads", "hea… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences نكص nks To step back on one's heels: to withdraw with a backward movement, from fear or from refusal. Uses 1. نَكَصَ عَلَىٰ عَقِبَيْهِ → "step back on one's heels" : the body's r… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences نكف nkf To disdain out of pride what nonetheless befits one's place. Uses 1. يَسْتَنكِفُ, ٱسْتَنكَفُوا۟ → "disdain" : to refuse to obey out of pride; the verb goes with ٱسْتَكْبَ… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences نكل nkl To stop by example: the sentence given as an example to deter others, and the heavy chains that bind. Uses 1. نَكَال → "exemplary deterrent" : the sentence that strikes a… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نمرق nmrq The cushion, laid out in a row. Uses 1. نَمَارِق → "cushions lined up" : the seating of the Garden, set in a line. «وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌۭ» — "and cushions lined up" (8… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences نمل nml The ant; a distinct use of the same radical names the fingertips. Uses 1. نَمْلَة, ٱلنَّمْل → "ant", "ants" : the insect, which speaks and warns its own. «عَلَىٰ وَادِ ٱل… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نمم nmm To spread slander: to carry from place to place a word that harms and sows discord. Uses 1. نَمِيم → "spreader of slander" : مَشَّآءٍۭ بِنَمِيمٍ: one who goes about carry… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نهج nhj The traced and followed way: the path of conduct given to each together with his law. Uses 1. وَمِنْهَاجًۭا → "a way" : the path assigned with the law. «لِكُلٍّۢ جَعَلْنَ… Read the entry → Sealed113 occurrences نهر nhr What flows abundantly and without cease: the river, a flow of water, and the day, a flow of brightness; the verb says the rough word that drives away. Uses 1. نَهَر, أَنْ… Read the entry → Sealed56 occurrences نهى nha To stop: to cease, to forbid, and the point where every thing stops. Uses 1. ٱنتَهَوْا۟, ٱنتَهُوا۟, يَنتَهُونَ → "cease" : to stop acting oneself. «فَإِنِ ٱنتَهَوْا۟ فَإِ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نوء nw' To weigh heavily on those who carry, so as to make them bend. Uses 1. لَتَنُوٓأُ بِـ → "weigh heavily on" : a load that exceeds the very strength of those who possess it.… Read the entry → Sealed18 occurrences نوب nwb To turn to God so as to have recourse to Him, again and again: a recourse that renews itself and becomes a disposition. Uses 1. أَنَابَ, أُنِيبُ → "to have recourse to Hi… Read the entry → Sealed194 occurrences نور nwr What gleams and radiates: the light that illuminates and orients, and the fire that gleams and burns. Uses 1. نُور → "light", "Light" : the brightness that makes one see,… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نوش nwsh To reach, to grasp what one wants to take; in its only use, a grasping that has become impossible. Uses 1. ٱلتَّنَاوُشُ → "how could they reach" : the grasping, sought to… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نوص nws The possibility of getting free from a peril; the text names it only to say it has gone by. Uses 1. مَنَاص → "a way out" : the moment when one could still get free, negat… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences نوق nwq The she-camel: the animal given as a sign to a people, and on which that people fails. Uses 1. نَاقَة → "she-camel" : the she-camel of God, sign and trial for the Thamud.… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences نوم nwm Sleep: consciousness suspended; a granted rest, a moment of vulnerability, and a state from which God is free. Uses 1. نَوْم → "sleep" : the state of the one who sleeps;… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نون nwn The fish, in the name given to Younes: Dhu'n-Nun, "the one of the fish". Uses 1. وَذَا ٱلنُّونِ → "Dhu'n-Nun" : Younes, named by the fish that swallowed him. «وَذَا ٱلنُّ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences نوى nwa The kernel: the hard, closed part of the fruit, from which life comes out when it is split. Uses 1. ٱلنَّوَىٰ → "the kernel" : joined to the seed, under the verb that spl… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences نيل nyl To accrue to: to come in fact to someone, whether one goes toward the thing or it comes toward him: virtue, God, anger. Uses 1. تَنَالُوا۟, يَنَالُهُ, سَيَنَالُهُمْ, يَنَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences هاء ha' Interjection that presents a thing and invites others to take it, spoken with eagerness. Uses 1. هَآؤُمُ → "Here" : the offer made to those present, followed by an impera… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences هبط hbt To descend from a high place to a lower one: to leave a height, an abode or a rank. Uses 1. ٱهْبِطُوا۟, ٱهْبِطْ, ٱهْبِطَا → "to descend" : the command to leave one place… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences هبو hbw The impalpable dust into which a thing that seemed solid comes apart. Uses 1. هَبَآءً → "dust" : what remains of a deed or a mountain reduced to nothing. «فَجَعَلْنَٰهُ ه… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences هجد hjd To keep vigil at night, by choice, beyond what is due. Uses 1. فَتَهَجَّدْ → "keep vigil" : imperative: the vigil is given as an addition, for part of the night. «وَمِنَ… Read the entry → Sealed31 occurrences هجر hjr To part of one's own will from a place, a person or a thing: to emigrate, to keep away. Uses 1. هَاجَرَ, يُهَاجِرُ, مُهَاجِر → "emigrate" : to leave one's land in the way… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences هجع hj' To yield to slumber; the single use shows it reduced to little of the night. Uses 1. يَهْجَعُونَ → "yield to slumber" : the sleep one consents to, measured by the restric… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences هدد hdd The collapse of a mass into debris: what the mountains become when they give way. Uses 1. هَدًّا → "in rubble" : the way the mountains fall, reduced to scattered stones.… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences هدم hdm To demolish: to pull down what has been built. Uses 1. لَّهُدِّمَتْ → "would have been demolished" : the passive of the intensive form: the places of worship that would b… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences هدهد hdhd The hoopoe, a bird of Sulayman's host, noticed by its absence. Uses 1. ٱلْهُدْهُدَ → "the hoopoe" : the bird Sulayman looks for while reviewing the birds. «مَا لِىَ لَآ أ… Read the entry → Sealed316 occurrences هدى hda To lead to the goal: to guide a being along a way to its end, or to convey a good to the one who is to receive it. Uses 1. هَدَىٰ, يَهْدِى, ٱهْدِنَا → "to guide" : to lea… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences هرب hrb To flee in order to get out of a power's reach. Uses 1. هَرَبًا → "by fleeing" : verbal noun as a complement of manner: flight as a means. «وَلَن نُّعْجِزَهُۥ هَرَبًۭا» —… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences هرع hr' To rush in a crowd toward a goal, with a drive that carries away more than it reflects. Uses 1. يُهْرَعُونَ → "rushing", "rushed headlong" : the passive says a drive that… Read the entry → Sealed34 occurrences هزء hz' To mock: to take in mockery what calls to be taken seriously. Uses 1. ٱسْتَهْزَأَ, يَسْتَهْزِئُ, ٱسْتُهْزِئَ → "mock" : mockery aimed at the signs and the messengers, whi… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences هزز hzz A sudden movement that shakes and makes visible a life or a force: the earth quivering under the water, the staff vibrating, the trunk being shaken. Uses 1. ٱهْتَزَّتْ →… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences هزل hzl Frivolity: speech without weight, which commits to nothing. Uses 1. بِٱلْهَزْلِ → "frivolity" : what the revealed word is not. «إِنَّهُۥ لَقَوْلٌۭ فَصْلٌۭ وَمَا هُوَ بِٱل… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences هزم hzm To rout: to break a troop and put it to flight. Uses 1. فَهَزَمُوهُم → "rout" : one troop's victory over another, obtained with God's permission. «فَهَزَمُوهُم بِإِذْنِ ٱ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences هشش hshsh To beat branches with a staff so as to bring the leaves down, a shepherd's gesture. Uses 1. وَأَهُشُّ → "I beat down leaves" : the gesture made with the staff, to feed th… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences هشم hshm Dried and broken plant matter that the wind scatters: the end of greenery. Uses 1. هَشِيمًا → "chaff" : what the vegetation of the present life becomes. «فَأَصْبَحَ هَشِي… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences هضم hdm To make give way what should have held: the right of which someone is despoiled, the spathe that melts under the tooth. Uses 1. هَضْمًا → "spoliation" : the right of whic… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences هطع ht' To rush in haste, head raised and gaze fixed, toward what calls. Uses 1. مُهْطِعِينَ → "rush" ("hastening", 70:36) : participle of state: the running of those who are sum… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences هلع hl' A fundamental anxiety, which panics in ill and withholds in good. Uses 1. هَلُوعًا → "anxious" : a state given at creation, which the text at once defines by its two face… Read the entry → Sealed66 occurrences هلك hlk To perish, to annihilate: the end without remainder of an existence, that of a being or that of a city. Uses 1. أَهْلَكَ, يُهْلِكُ, نُهْلِكِ → "annihilate" : God puts an… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences هلل hll To proclaim: to make heard publicly. Uses 1. ٱلْأَهِلَّة → "public announcements" : events proclaimed on a known date, which the verse calls appointed times. «يَسْـَٔلُون… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences همد hmd To be without movement or visible life, as if extinguished, before water revives. Uses 1. هَامِدَة → "lifeless" : state of the earth before the rain. «وَتَرَى ٱلْأَرْضَ ه… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences همر hmr To pour out in abundance and without interruption. Uses 1. مُّنْهَمِرٍ → "pouring" : the water that comes down through the opened gates of heaven. «فَفَتَحْنَآ أَبْوَٰبَ… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences همز hmz To prick, to push with a point, of the finger or of speech: the incitement that goads, the slander that wounds to the face. Uses 1. هَمَزَات → "the incitements" : the pri… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences همس hms The faintest sound that can be heard: a rustle. Uses 1. هَمْسًا → "rustle" : what remains of sound when the voices have become humble. «فَلَا تَسْمَعُ إِلَّا هَمْسًۭا» —… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences همم hmm To form the intention of an act, without its going as far as the act. Uses 1. هَمَّتْ, وَهَمَّ, وَهَمُّوا۟ → "have an intention", "be minded to" : the formed intention, w… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences همن hmn To prevail over what one keeps: a preponderance that confirms and protects. Uses 1. مُهَيْمِنًا عَلَىٰ → "prevailing over" : said of the Scripture with regard to the one… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences هنء hn' What is consumed or received with pleasure, without harmful aftermath. Uses 1. هَنِيٓـًٔا → "pleasantly" : manner of eating and drinking what is granted as recompense. «ه… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences هور hwr To cave in: undermined ground that gives way and carries off what was built upon it. Uses 1. هَارٍ → "about to cave in" : the edge already undermined, before the fall. «ع… Read the entry → Sealed26 occurrences هون hwn Slight weight: what weighs little to carry is easy, what weighs little in worth is vile; inflicted on someone, it is degradation. Uses 1. مُّهِين → "degrading" : the puni… Read the entry → Sealed38 occurrences هوى hwa To lean and be drawn downward: in the body, the fall; in judgment, the emotion that carries one away from knowledge. Uses 1. ٱلْهَوَىٰ, أَهْوَآء → "emotion" : what one le… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences هىء ha' To give matter or a situation the disposition suited to its end. Uses 1. كَهَيْـَٔةِ → "the form of" : the configuration given to the clay, before the breath. «مِّنَ ٱلطِ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences هيت hyt Interjection of pressing call, inviting someone to come. Uses 1. هَيْتَ لَكَ → "Come here" : the call made to Youssof, followed by لَكَ. «وَقَالَتْ هَيْتَ لَكَ» — "Come h… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences هيج hyj To dry up after growing: vegetation that passes, yellows, then turns to debris. Uses 1. يَهِيجُ → "wither", "dry up" : the stage where the plant, having grown, loses its… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences هيل hyl What flows and no longer holds: sand pouring away. Uses 1. مَّهِيلًا → "poured-out" : the state of the mountains on the Day: a heap of sand without cohesion. «وَكَانَتِ ٱ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences هيم hym To go without aim or landmark: in speech, rambling; in the body, a thirst that nothing quenches. Uses 1. يَهِيمُونَ → "to ramble on" : speech that passes from one subject… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences هيهات hyhat Exclamation that rejects a thing as out of reach: "far off!". Uses 1. هَيْهَاتَ هَيْهَاتَ لِ → "Far, far indeed" : the doubled refusal of what is announced, followed by ل… Read the entry → 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 from which Fir'awn draws his power. Uses 1. أَوْتَادًۭا → "pegs" : the… 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 → Sealed13 occurrences يئس y's To cease expecting what one hoped for, until the thing is held to be out of reach; toward God and His benevolence, this loss of hope is the mark of those who disown. Uses… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences ياجوج yajwj Proper name of a people, always named with Majuj: a pair that sows corruption on the earth and that, one day, is opened. Uses 1. يَأْجُوجَ, يَأْجُوجُ → "Yajuj" : the name… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ياقوت yaqwt The ruby, a precious stone, term of a comparison that speaks of the brilliance and worth of the beings described. Uses 1. ٱلْيَاقُوتُ → "rubies" : the red, precious stone… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences يبس ybs To be dry, deprived of all moisture: the withered plant, the sea floor laid dry. Uses 1. يَابِسٍ → "dry" : the adjective, paired with رَطْب, the moist: all matter. «وَلَا… Read the entry → Sealed23 occurrences يتم ytm To be deprived, before coming of age, of the parent who protects: the orphan, whose goods, sustenance and dignity are entrusted to others. Uses 1. ٱلْيَتَٰمَىٰ, يَتَٰمَى… Read the entry → Sealed120 occurrences يدى yda The hand: what grasps, gives and acts; hence what it has accomplished, the power it holds, and the space stretching before it. Uses 1. يَد, أَيْدِى → "hand", "hands" : th… Read the entry → Sealed44 occurrences يسر ysr To make a thing easy, without toil or obstacle: ease granted, means regained, and gain that comes without effort. Uses 1. يَسِير, مَّيْسُور → "easy", "an easy thing" : wh… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences يعوق y'wq Proper name of a deity, the fourth of the five names people are urged not to forsake in 71:23. Uses 1. وَيَعُوقَ → "Ya'uq" : the name is kept as it is, within a closed en… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences يغوث yghwth Proper name of a deity, one of the five the text cites as those people refuse to leave. Uses 1. يَغُوثَ → "Yaghuth" : third name of a closed list of five deities. «وَلَا… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences يقطن yqtn A plant God causes to grow over Younes, cast onto bare ground: a soft plant, akin to cotton, that covers and shelters. Uses 1. يَقْطِينٍۢ → "a soft, cotton-like plant" :… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences يقظ yqz To be awake: the waking state, opposed to sleep. Uses 1. أَيْقَاظًۭا → "awake" : the appearance of wakefulness in those who sleep. «وَتَحْسَبُهُمْ أَيْقَاظًۭا وَهُمْ رُقُ… Read the entry → Sealed28 occurrences يقن yqn To hold a thing as established, with no room for doubt: certainty. Uses 1. يُوقِنُونَ, ٱلْمُوقِنِينَ → "possess certainty", "have certainty" : the state of those for whom… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences يمم ymm Two uses whose link is not established: to head for a thing with intent; and ٱلْيَمّ, the deep that carries Moussa as a child and engulfs Fir'awn. Uses 1. تَيَمَّمُوا۟, ف… Read the entry → Sealed71 occurrences يمن ymn The right: the side of the right hand and the hand that pledges; hence the oath, the commitment one takes, and the bond it creates. Uses 1. أَيْمَٰن → "oaths" : the commi… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences ينع yn' To ripen: the state of fruit that has reached its term. Uses 1. وَيَنْعِهِۦٓ → "its ripening" : the second moment of the fruit, after its appearing. «ٱنظُرُوٓا۟ إِلَىٰ ثَ… Read the entry → Sealed475 occurrences يوم ywm The day: a bounded span, a day counted among others or the Day when all is rendered; what qualifies it says which. Uses 1. يَوْم, يَوْمًا → "day", "the day" : a day among… Read the entry →