Arabic root

ض-ع-ف

Dad-Ayn-Fa

3 words from this root family

About this root

Dad-Ayn-Fa (ض-ع-ف) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: ḍaʿīf (weak), ḍaʿf (weakness), ḍiʿf (double / twice).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 52 times in 45 verses, across 21 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:245. The form ضِعْف (double / twice) accounts for 11 of them.

Themes: Adjectives, Physical, Abstract Concepts, Numbers, Numbers Practical

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
ضَعيف ḍaʿīf	weak	adjective, A1		Adjectives - Speed, Temperature & Quantity
ضَعْف ḍaʿf	weakness	noun, B1	4×	Emotions & Feelings
ضِعْف ḍiʿf	double / twice	noun, A2	11×	Practical Number Words

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

In the Quran

مَّن ذَا ٱلَّذِى يُقْرِضُ ٱللَّهَ قَرْضًا حَسَنًا فَيُضَـٰعِفَهُۥ لَهُۥٓ أَضْعَافًا كَثِيرَةً ۚ وَٱللَّهُ يَقْبِضُ وَيَبْصُۜطُ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ

Who is it that will lend unto Allah a goodly loan, so that He may give it increase manifold? Allah straiteneth and enlargeth. Unto Him ye will return.

Quran 2:245

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَا تَأْكُلُوا۟ ٱلرِّبَوٰٓا۟ أَضْعَـٰفًا مُّضَـٰعَفَةً ۖ وَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ

O ye who believe! Devour not usury, doubling and quadrupling (the sum lent). Observe your duty to Allah, that ye may be successful.

Quran 3:130

ٱلْـَٔـٰنَ خَفَّفَ ٱللَّهُ عَنكُمْ وَعَلِمَ أَنَّ فِيكُمْ ضَعْفًا ۚ فَإِن يَكُن مِّنكُم مِّا۟ئَةٌ صَابِرَةٌ يَغْلِبُوا۟ مِا۟ئَتَيْنِ ۚ وَإِن يَكُن مِّنكُمْ أَلْفٌ يَغْلِبُوٓا۟ أَلْفَيْنِ بِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ مَعَ ٱلصَّـٰبِرِينَ

Now hath Allah lightened your burden, for He knoweth that there is weakness in you. So if there be of you a steadfast hundred they shall overcome two hundred, and if there be of you a thousand (steadfast) they shall overcome two thousand by permission of Allah. Allah is with the steadfast.

Quran 8:66

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).