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Arabic root

ف-ق-د

Fa-Qaf-Dal

1 word from this root family

About this root

Fa-Qaf-Dal (ف-ق-د) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: faqada (to lose).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 3 times in 3 verses, across 2 of the 114 suras. The first is in 12:71.

Themes: Verbs, Possession

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
فَقَدَ
faqada
to loseverb, A1Action Verbs - Thinking & Feeling

In the Quran

قَالُوا۟ وَأَقْبَلُوا۟ عَلَيْهِم مَّاذَا تَفْقِدُونَ

They cried, coming toward them: What is it ye have lost?

Quran 12:71
قَالُوا۟ نَفْقِدُ صُوَاعَ ٱلْمَلِكِ وَلِمَن جَآءَ بِهِۦ حِمْلُ بَعِيرٍ وَأَنَا۠ بِهِۦ زَعِيمٌ

They said: We have lost the king's cup, and he who bringeth it shall have a camel-load, and I (said Joseph) am answerable for it.

Quran 12:72
وَتَفَقَّدَ ٱلطَّيْرَ فَقَالَ مَا لِىَ لَآ أَرَى ٱلْهُدْهُدَ أَمْ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْغَآئِبِينَ

And he sought among the birds and said: How is it that I see not the hoopoe, or is he among the absent?

Quran 27:20

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
فَقَدَ
faqada

to lose

Example
فقدتُ محفظتي في السوقِ
faqadtu miḥfaẓatī fī as-sūqi
I lost my wallet in the market
Grammar

Form I verb. Past: faqada, Present: yafqidu.

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