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Quran Dictionary
Look up Quranic words — their root letters, root meanings, and every ayath where they appear.
1,671 words
دأب
d-ā-b
The root دأب (daʾab) refers to a subterranean structure, often for cooling, like a cellar or vault. It's an arabicized word from Persian, meaning "cold water." The plural is sarādīb.
Root: د-أ-ب6 occurrences
دعو
d-ʿ-w
The root دعو (daʿaw) primarily means to call, invite, or summon. It also encompasses praying or supplicating to God, whether for good or against someone.
Root: د-ع-و10 occurrences
دعع
d-ʿ-ʿ
The root دعع (daʿʿa) primarily means to push or repel with force, often with a shove or thrust. It implies a strong, sometimes violent, expulsion or driving away.
Root: د-ع-ع2 occurrences
دحر
d-ḥ-r
The root دحر (daḥara) means to drive away, expel, or banish someone with roughness or violence. It implies pushing someone away, often with ignominy. This term is used to describe God expelling Satan.
Root: د-ح-ر4 occurrences
دحو
d-ḥ-w
The root دحو (daḥw) primarily means to spread out or expand, often referring to God spreading the earth. It also describes an ostrich preparing its nest or a man throwing a stone.
Root: د-ح-و1 occurrences
دحض
d-ḥ-ḍ
The root دحض (dHD) primarily means to slip, like a foot or the sun declining. It also metaphorically describes an argument becoming null or void, as if it slipped away from validity.
Root: د-ح-ض4 occurrences
فدي
f-d-y
The root فدي (fdy) primarily means to ransom or redeem someone, often by giving something in exchange to free them from captivity, punishment, or a difficult situation.
Root: ف-د-ي10 occurrences
فهم
f-h-m
The root فَهِمَ (fahima) means to understand or apprehend something with the mind. It implies grasping the meaning of something, similar to knowing or perceiving with the heart.
Root: ف-ه-م1 occurrences
فجج
f-j-j
The root فجج (fajj) primarily describes a wide opening or space, like a broad road or a valley. It implies something being split open or having a large, expansive gap.
Root: ف-ج-ج3 occurrences
فجر
f-j-r
The root فجر primarily means to cleave or cut open, like breaking a dam for water to flow. This extends to opening a path for water or blood.
Root: ف-ج-ر10 occurrences
فجو
f-j-w
The root فجو (fjw) primarily means to open or widen. It describes opening a door, widening the space between legs, or the string of a bow being raised.
Root: ف-ج-و1 occurrences
فكه
f-k-h
The root فكه (fkh) primarily relates to eating fruit, enjoying it, or even abstaining from it. In the Quran, it can imply irony, wondering, or repenting.
Root: ف-ك-ه10 occurrences
فخر
f-k-h-r
The root فخر (fkhr) primarily means to glory, boast, or praise oneself, often by recounting noble deeds or ancestry. It can also imply contending for superiority or disdaining others.
Root: ف-خ-ر6 occurrences
فكك
f-k-k
The root فكك primarily means to separate, loosen, or disjoin something that was bound or joined. It can refer to freeing a captive, disentangling, or solving a problem.
Root: ف-ك-ك2 occurrences
فكر
f-k-r
The root F-K-R refers to deep thought, contemplation, or mental examination. It involves using the mind to understand something clearly, often by arranging known ideas to discover new insights.
Root: ف-ك-ر10 occurrences
فلك
f-l-k
The root فلك (flk) primarily refers to the celestial sphere or orbit of stars, often imagined as a material vault.
Root: ف-ل-ك10 occurrences
فلن
f-l-n
The root فُلَانٌ (fulān) refers to "such a one" or "so-and-so," used as a placeholder for a person's name, typically male. فُلَانَةٌ (fulānah) is its female equivalent.
Root: ف-ل-ن1 occurrences
فلق
f-l-q
The root فلق (flq) primarily refers to the breaking forth of light, especially daybreak or dawn.
Root: ف-ل-ق4 occurrences
فلح
f-l-ḥ
The root فلح (f-l-ḥ) primarily means to cleave or split, like iron or a head. It also refers to tilling land.
Root: ف-ل-ح10 occurrences
فند
f-n-d
The root فند (fnd) primarily refers to a large, prominent mountain or a distinct part of it, like a peak. It can also describe a group of people, often scattered or in separate companies.
Root: ف-ن-د1 occurrences
فنن
f-n-n
The root فَنَن primarily refers to a branch, especially one that is soft, tender, and fresh. It can also denote a state of being fresh, soft, or in the prime of life, like a young branch.
Root: ف-ن-ن1 occurrences
فني
f-n-y
The root فني (fny) primarily signifies passing away, perishing, or coming to an end.
Root: ف-ن-ي1 occurrences
فقد
f-q-d
The root فَقَدَ (faqada) means to lose, miss, or not find something. It implies absence from perception, where the item's location is unknown.
Root: ف-ق-د3 occurrences
فقه
f-q-h
The root فقه (fqh) primarily means to understand, comprehend, and know, especially in matters of religious law.
Root: ف-ق-ه10 occurrences
فقر
f-q-r
The root فقر (fqr) primarily relates to a hollow or well, often for planting or water. It also describes a person with a broken or diseased spine.
Root: ف-ق-ر10 occurrences
فقع
f-q-ʿ
The root فقع (fqE) primarily describes intense whiteness or yellowness. It also refers to a type of truffle, often considered inferior, that grows easily visible above ground.
Root: ف-ق-ع1 occurrences
فرد
f-r-d
The root فَرْدَ (fard) signifies being single, sole, or alone, without equal or companion. It describes something unique, individual, or separate from others.
Root: ف-ر-د5 occurrences
فرغ
f-r-gh
The root فرغ primarily means to be empty or vacant. It extends to being free from work, finishing a task, or even dying (as the body becomes empty of the soul).
Root: ف-ر-غ6 occurrences
فره
f-r-h
The root فره (frh) describes skill, briskness, and beauty. A "fārih" person is skillful, while a "fārih" animal (like a mule or ass) is lively and strong.
Root: ف-ر-ه1 occurrences
فرج
f-r-j
The root فرج (frj) primarily means to open or make a space between two things, like parting legs or opening a door. It also refers to God removing grief or sorrow.
Root: ف-ر-ج9 occurrences
فرق
f-r-q
The root فَرَقَ (faraqa) means to separate, distinguish, or divide.
Root: ف-ر-ق10 occurrences
فرر
f-r-r
The root فَرَر (f-r-r) primarily signifies fleeing, running away, or escaping from something. It implies a rapid movement to get away, often due to fear or to avoid an undesirable situation.
Root: ف-ر-ر10 occurrences
فرش
f-r-s-h
The root فرش (frsh) primarily means to spread or expand something, like spreading a bed or a carpet. It can also metaphorically mean to make an affair ample or to lay oneself open for others.
Root: ف-ر-ش6 occurrences
فرت
f-r-t
The root فُرَاتٌ (furāt) primarily describes water that is very sweet and quenches thirst. It is also the name of the Euphrates River, a major river flowing through Iraq.
Root: ف-ر-ت3 occurrences
فرث
f-r-t-h
The root فَرَثَ (faratha) primarily means to scatter or disperse, often referring to the contents of a stomach or a container.
Root: ف-ر-ث1 occurrences
فري
f-r-y
The root فري (fry) describes a lamb or its skin, or a kid's skin, being roasted until its upper parts become dried up. This term is found in Q. 3.
Root: ف-ر-ي10 occurrences
فرع
f-r-ʿ
The root فرع (frE) primarily relates to beginning or initiating something, like a journey or discourse.
Root: ف-ر-ع1 occurrences
فرض
f-r-ḍ
The root "frD" primarily refers to a mark or incision, like a notch in a bow for the string. It also signifies something made obligatory or binding by God, for which one is punished if neglected.
Root: ف-ر-ض10 occurrences
فرح
f-r-ḥ
The root فَرِح (frH) describes being joyful, glad, or happy. It can also mean well-pleased or content.
Root: ف-ر-ح10 occurrences
فرط
f-r-ṭ
The root فرط (frT) primarily conveys meanings of preceding, sending forth, or neglecting.
Root: ف-ر-ط8 occurrences
فسد
f-s-d
The root FSD means to make something bad, corrupt, or unsound.
Root: ف-س-د10 occurrences
فشل
f-s-h-l
The root فشل (fashala) primarily means to be cowardly, weak, or flagging. It describes a state of timidity or lack of resolve.
Root: ف-ش-ل4 occurrences
فسق
f-s-q
The root ف س ق (fsq) primarily means to go forth from something in a bad or corrupt manner, like a date coming out of its skin.
Root: ف-س-ق10 occurrences
فسر
f-s-r
The root فسر (fasara) means to discover, reveal, or make clear something concealed or obscure, especially a meaning. The more common form, تفسير (tafsīr), often implies a more intensive explanation.
Root: ف-س-ر1 occurrences
فسح
f-s-ḥ
The root فسح (fsH) primarily describes a place becoming spacious or wide. It also means to make room for someone, especially in an assembly.
Root: ف-س-ح1 occurrences
فتل
f-t-l
The root فتل (ftl) primarily means "to twist." It describes the twisting of threads, ropes, or even the compact structure of muscle.
Root: ف-ت-ل3 occurrences
فتن
f-t-n
The root فتن (ftn) primarily means to burn or melt something, like gold, to purify or test it.
Root: ف-ت-ن10 occurrences
فتق
f-t-q
The root فتق (f-t-q) means to slit, rend, or disjoin something, the opposite of joining it. It can also refer to causing disunion or war among people, or dissolving a compact.
Root: ف-ت-ق1 occurrences
فتر
f-t-r
The root فتر (ftr) describes something that remits, flags, or becomes gentle after being intense or vigorous. It can refer to heat, cold, water, or a person's effort or body becoming languid.
Root: ف-ت-ر3 occurrences
فتي
f-t-y
The root فتي primarily denotes youthfulness, being a young man or woman, or a youth. It also carries meanings of being new, fresh, or recently made.
Root: ف-ت-ي10 occurrences
فتأ
f-t-ā
The root فتأ (ftA) in its fourth form (أَفْتَاَ) refers back to earlier definitions. It implies a sense of weakness, languor, or becoming feeble, often in health or spirit.
Root: ف-ت-أ1 occurrences
فتح
f-t-ḥ
The root فَتَحَ (fataḥa) primarily means "to open" something, like a door or a conduit. It extends to "conquer" a land, "explain" a problem, or "reveal" a secret.
Root: ف-ت-ح10 occurrences
فوه
f-w-h
The root فوه (fwh) primarily refers to the mouth (فَمٌ). Its plural is أَفْوَاهٌ. The word فَمٌ is considered a transformation of فوه, where the ه was replaced by م.
Root: ف-و-ه10 occurrences
فوج
f-w-j
The root فَوْجٌ (fawj) refers to a company, group, or party of people, often a dense crowd or multitude. It can also denote followers or dependants of leaders.
Root: ف-و-ج5 occurrences
فوم
f-w-m
The word "fūm" in the Quran (2:58) is debated. It's often linked to "thūm" (garlic), possibly a dialectal variant.
Root: ف-و-م1 occurrences
فوق
f-w-q
The root "fwq" primarily means to be above, excel, or surpass. It also describes the rising of wind from the chest (hiccuping) or a gasping at death.
Root: ف-و-ق10 occurrences
فور
f-w-r
The root فَوْر (fawr) primarily describes boiling or effervescence, like water boiling or anger flaring up. It also refers to things gushing forth, such as water from the earth or blood from a vein.
Root: ف-و-ر4 occurrences
فوت
f-w-t
The root فوت (fwt) primarily conveys the idea of something passing or escaping.
Root: ف-و-ت5 occurrences
فوز
f-w-z
The root فوز (fwz) primarily means to attain good fortune, succeed, or win. It also conveys the sense of escaping harm or becoming safe.
Root: ف-و-ز10 occurrences
فوض
f-w-ḍ
The root فوض (fwD) describes a state of equality, dispersion, or mixture, often implying a lack of leadership or order.
Root: ف-و-ض1 occurrences