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Arabic root

ف-ع-ل

Fa-Ayn-Lam

3 words from this root family

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Fa-Ayn-Lam (ف-ع-ل) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: yafʿalu (he does / he makes), faʿala (to do / to make), tafāʿul kīmiyāʾiyy (chemical reaction).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 108 times in 102 verses, across 44 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:24. The form فَعَلَ (to do / to make) accounts for 88 of them.

Themes: Verbs, Basics, Science Medicine

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
يَفْعَلُ
yafʿalu
he does / he makesverb, A1Essential Verbs
فَعَلَ
faʿala
to do / to makeverb, A188×Action Verbs - Thinking & Feeling
تَفَاعُل كِيمِيَائِيّ
tafāʿul kīmiyāʾiyy
chemical reactionnoun, B2Cells & Biology

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

In the Quran

فَإِن لَّمْ تَفْعَلُوا۟ وَلَن تَفْعَلُوا۟ فَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱلنَّارَ ٱلَّتِى وَقُودُهَا ٱلنَّاسُ وَٱلْحِجَارَةُ ۖ أُعِدَّتْ لِلْكَـٰفِرِينَ

And if ye do it not- and ye can never do it - then guard yourselves against the Fire prepared for disbelievers, whose fuel is of men and stones.

Quran 2:24
يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ ءَامِنُوا۟ بِمَا نَزَّلْنَا مُصَدِّقًا لِّمَا مَعَكُم مِّن قَبْلِ أَن نَّطْمِسَ وُجُوهًا فَنَرُدَّهَا عَلَىٰٓ أَدْبَارِهَآ أَوْ نَلْعَنَهُمْ كَمَا لَعَنَّآ أَصْحَـٰبَ ٱلسَّبْتِ ۚ وَكَانَ أَمْرُ ٱللَّهِ مَفْعُولًا

O ye unto whom the Scripture hath been given! Believe in what We have revealed confirming that which ye possess, before We destroy countenances so as to confound them, or curse them as We cursed the Sabbath-breakers (of old time). The commandment of Allah is always executed.

Quran 4:47
خَـٰلِدِينَ فِيهَا مَا دَامَتِ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتُ وَٱلْأَرْضُ إِلَّا مَا شَآءَ رَبُّكَ ۚ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ فَعَّالٌ لِّمَا يُرِيدُ

Abiding there so long as the heavens and the earth endure save for that which thy Lord willeth. Lo! thy Lord is Doer of what He will.

Quran 11:107

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

A1verb
يَفْعَلُ
yafʿalu

he does / he makes

Example
مَاذَا يَفْعَلُ الْآنَ؟
mādhā yafʿalu al-āna?
What is he doing now?
Grammar

Form I verb. The root f-ʿ-l is used as the template pattern for all Arabic verb forms.

A1verb
فَعَلَ
faʿala

to do / to make

Example
ماذا فعلتَ اليومَ؟
mādhā faʿalta al-yawma?
What did you do today?
Grammar

Form I verb. Past: fa'ala, Present: yaf'alu. The root ف-ع-ل is used as the template for all verb forms.

B2noun
تَفَاعُل كِيمِيَائِيّ
tafāʿul kīmiyāʾiyy

chemical reaction

Example
يُنتِجُ التَّفاعُلُ الكيميائِيُّ مَوادَّ جَديدَة.
yuntiqu t-tafāʿulu l-kīmiyāʾiyyu mawādda jadīda.
A chemical reaction produces new substances.

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