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قنطر

q-n-ṭ-r

The root قنطر (qnTr) refers to a large, unspecified quantity of wealth, often gold or silver. It can denote a significant weight, like a hundredweight, or a specific sum, such as 4000 dinars.

Root

ق-ن-ط-ر

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Total uses

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Surahs

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Forms

Root

ق-ن-ط-ر

Root Meaning

The root قنطر (qnTr) refers to a large, unspecified quantity of wealth, often gold or silver. It can denote a significant weight, like a hundredweight, or a specific sum, such as 4000 dinars.

Derived forms

وَٱلۡقَنَٰطِيرِ1ٱلۡمُقَنطَرَةِ1بِقِنطَارࣲ1قِنطَارࣰ1

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📖 Ayaths where this word appears (3)

Aal-Imran 3:14

وَٱلْقَنَٰطِيرِMeaning here: The root قنطر (qnTr) refers to a large, unspecified quantity of wealth, often gold or silver. It can denote a significant weight, like a hundredweight, or a specific sum, such as 4000 dinars.

Beautified for mankind is love of the joys (that come) from women and offspring; and stored-up heaps of gold and silver, and horses branded (with their mark), and cattle and land. That is comfort of the life of the world. Allah! With Him is a more excellent abode

Aal-Imran 3:75

بِقِنطَارٍMeaning here: The root قنطر (qnTr) refers to a large, unspecified quantity of wealth, often gold or silver. It can denote a significant weight, like a hundredweight, or a specific sum, such as 4000 dinars.

Among the People of the Scripture there is he who, if thou trust him with a weight of treasure, will return it to thee. And among them there is he who, if thou trust him with a piece of gold, will not return it to thee unless thou keep standing over him. That is because they say: We have no duty to the Gentiles. They speak a lie concerning Allah knowingly

An-Nisa 4:20

قِنطَارًاMeaning here: The root قنطر (qnTr) refers to a large, unspecified quantity of wealth, often gold or silver. It can denote a significant weight, like a hundredweight, or a specific sum, such as 4000 dinars.

And if ye wish to exchange one wife for another and ye have given unto one of them a sum of money (however great), take nothing from it. Would ye take it by the way of calumny and open wrong