sorry
Feminine form: 'āsifatun' (آسِفَةٌ). Used for apologies.
Alif-Sin-Fa
2 words from this root family
Alif-Sin-Fa (ا-س-ف) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: āsifun (sorry), li-l-asaf (unfortunately).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 5 times in 5 verses, across 5 of the 114 suras. The first is in 7:150.
Themes: Greetings, Basics, Advanced Expressions
| Word | Meaning | Type | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|
آسِفٌ āsifun | sorry | adjective, A1 | More Greetings & Courtesies |
لِلأَسَفِ li-l-asaf | unfortunately | phrase, B2 | Rhetorical Devices |
وَتَوَلَّىٰ عَنْهُمْ وَقَالَ يَـٰٓأَسَفَىٰ عَلَىٰ يُوسُفَ وَٱبْيَضَّتْ عَيْنَاهُ مِنَ ٱلْحُزْنِ فَهُوَ كَظِيمٌAnd he turned away from them and said: Alas, my grief for Joseph! And his eyes were whitened with the sorrow that he was suppressing.
فَرَجَعَ مُوسَىٰٓ إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦ غَضْبَـٰنَ أَسِفًا ۚ قَالَ يَـٰقَوْمِ أَلَمْ يَعِدْكُمْ رَبُّكُمْ وَعْدًا حَسَنًا ۚ أَفَطَالَ عَلَيْكُمُ ٱلْعَهْدُ أَمْ أَرَدتُّمْ أَن يَحِلَّ عَلَيْكُمْ غَضَبٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ فَأَخْلَفْتُم مَّوْعِدِىThen Moses went back unto his folk, angry and sad. He said: O my people! Hath not your Lord promised you a fair promise? Did the time appointed then appear too long for you, or did ye wish that wrath from your Lord should come upon you, that ye broke tryst with me?
فَلَمَّآ ءَاسَفُونَا ٱنتَقَمْنَا مِنْهُمْ فَأَغْرَقْنَـٰهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَSo, when they angered Us, We punished them and drowned them every one.
Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).
Feminine form: 'āsifatun' (آسِفَةٌ). Used for apologies.