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Arabic root

د-ف-ا

Dal-Fa-Alif

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About this root

Dal-Fa-Alif (د-ف-ا) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: dāfiʾ (warm).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 1 time in 1 verse, across 1 of the 114 suras. The first is in 16:5.

Themes: Adjectives

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
دافِئ
dāfiʾ
warmadjective, A1Adjectives - Emotions & Feelings

In the Quran

وَٱلْأَنْعَـٰمَ خَلَقَهَا ۗ لَكُمْ فِيهَا دِفْءٌ وَمَنَـٰفِعُ وَمِنْهَا تَأْكُلُونَ

And the cattle hath He created, whence ye have warm clothing and uses, and whereof ye eat;

Quran 16:5

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

A1adjective
دافِئ
dāfiʾ

warm

Example
الجَوُّ دافِئ
al-jawwu dāfiʾ
The weather is warm
Grammar

Feminine form: dāfiʾa (دافِئة). Between bārid (cold) and ḥārr (hot).

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