Arabic root

ض-ح-ك

Dad-Ha-Kaf

1 word from this root family

About this root

Dad-Ha-Kaf (ض-ح-ك) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: ḍaḥika (to laugh).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 10 times in 10 verses, across 8 of the 114 suras. The first is in 9:82.

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
ضَحِكَ ḍaḥika	to laugh	verb, A1	Action Verbs - Thinking & Feeling

In the Quran

فَلْيَضْحَكُوا۟ قَلِيلًا وَلْيَبْكُوا۟ كَثِيرًا جَزَآءًۢ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَكْسِبُونَ

Then let them laugh a little: they will weep much, as the reward of what they used to earn.

Quran 9:82

فَتَبَسَّمَ ضَاحِكًا مِّن قَوْلِهَا وَقَالَ رَبِّ أَوْزِعْنِىٓ أَنْ أَشْكُرَ نِعْمَتَكَ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَىَّ وَعَلَىٰ وَٰلِدَىَّ وَأَنْ أَعْمَلَ صَـٰلِحًا تَرْضَىٰهُ وَأَدْخِلْنِى بِرَحْمَتِكَ فِى عِبَادِكَ ٱلصَّـٰلِحِينَ

And (Solomon) smiled, laughing at her speech, and said: My Lord, arouse me to be thankful for Thy favour wherewith Thou hast favoured me and my parents, and to do good that shall be pleasing unto Thee, and include me in (the number of) Thy righteous slaves.

Quran 27:19

وَأَنَّهُۥ هُوَ أَضْحَكَ وَأَبْكَىٰ

And that He it is who maketh laugh, and maketh weep,

Quran 53:43

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).