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Arabic root

ف-ق-ر

Fa-Qaf-Ra

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About this root

Fa-Qaf-Ra (ف-ق-ر) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: faqīr (poor).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 14 times in 14 verses, across 11 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:268.

Themes: Adjectives, Basics

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
فَقير
faqīr
pooradjective, A1Adjectives - Materials & Textures

In the Quran

ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُ يَعِدُكُمُ ٱلْفَقْرَ وَيَأْمُرُكُم بِٱلْفَحْشَآءِ ۖ وَٱللَّهُ يَعِدُكُم مَّغْفِرَةً مِّنْهُ وَفَضْلًا ۗ وَٱللَّهُ وَٰسِعٌ عَلِيمٌ

The devil promiseth you destitution and enjoineth on you lewdness. But Allah promiseth you forgiveness from Himself with bounty. Allah is All-Embracing, All-Knowing.

Quran 2:268
إِن تُبْدُوا۟ ٱلصَّدَقَـٰتِ فَنِعِمَّا هِىَ ۖ وَإِن تُخْفُوهَا وَتُؤْتُوهَا ٱلْفُقَرَآءَ فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ ۚ وَيُكَفِّرُ عَنكُم مِّن سَيِّـَٔاتِكُمْ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرٌ

If ye publish your almsgiving, it is well, but if ye hide it and give it to the poor, it will be better for you, and will atone for some of your ill-deeds. Allah is Informed of what ye do.

Quran 2:271
تَظُنُّ أَن يُفْعَلَ بِهَا فَاقِرَةٌ

Thou wilt know that some great disaster is about to fall on them.

Quran 75:25

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
فَقير
faqīr

poor

Example
هُناكَ أُناسٌ فُقَراء
hunāka unāsun fuqarāʾ
There are poor people
Grammar

Feminine form: faqīra (فَقيرة). Plural: fuqarāʾ (فُقَراء). Opposite of ghanī (غَنِيّ).

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