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ع-ص-ف

Ayn-Sad-Fa

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Ayn-Sad-Fa (ع-ص-ف) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: ʿāṣifa (storm).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 7 times in 6 verses, across 6 of the 114 suras. The first is in 10:22. The form عَاصِفَة (storm) accounts for 2 of them.

Themes: Nature Weather

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
عَاصِفَة
ʿāṣifa
stormnoun, B12×Natural Elements

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

مَّثَلُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِرَبِّهِمْ ۖ أَعْمَـٰلُهُمْ كَرَمَادٍ ٱشْتَدَّتْ بِهِ ٱلرِّيحُ فِى يَوْمٍ عَاصِفٍ ۖ لَّا يَقْدِرُونَ مِمَّا كَسَبُوا۟ عَلَىٰ شَىْءٍ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ هُوَ ٱلضَّلَـٰلُ ٱلْبَعِيدُ

A similitude of those who disbelieve in their Lord: Their works are as ashes which the wind bloweth hard upon a stormy day. They have no control of aught that they have earned. That is the extreme failure.

Quran 14:18
وَلِسُلَيْمَـٰنَ ٱلرِّيحَ عَاصِفَةً تَجْرِى بِأَمْرِهِۦٓ إِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِى بَـٰرَكْنَا فِيهَا ۚ وَكُنَّا بِكُلِّ شَىْءٍ عَـٰلِمِينَ

And unto Solomon (We subdued) the wind in its raging. It set by his command toward the land which We had blessed. And of everything We are Aware.

Quran 21:81
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ

And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)?

Quran 105:5

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).

Word cards with examples

B1noun
عَاصِفَة
ʿāṣifa

storm

Example
ضَرَبَت عاصِفَةٌ قَوِيَّةٌ المَدينَة.
ḍarabat ʿāṣifatun qawiyyatun al-madīna.
A strong storm hit the city.

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