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Arabic root

ف-ر-ض

Fa-Ra-Dad

2 words from this root family

About this root

Fa-Ra-Dad (ف-ر-ض) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: farḍ (obligation / religious duty), faraḍiyya (hypothesis).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 18 times in 14 verses, across 7 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:68.

Themes: Quranic, Academic Formal

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
فَرْضٌ
farḍ
obligation / religious dutynoun, B1Lawful, Forbidden, and Duty
فَرَضِيَّة
faraḍiyya
hypothesisnoun, B2Academic Writing

In the Quran

قَالُوا۟ ٱدْعُ لَنَا رَبَّكَ يُبَيِّن لَّنَا مَا هِىَ ۚ قَالَ إِنَّهُۥ يَقُولُ إِنَّهَا بَقَرَةٌ لَّا فَارِضٌ وَلَا بِكْرٌ عَوَانٌۢ بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ ۖ فَٱفْعَلُوا۟ مَا تُؤْمَرُونَ

They said: Pray for us unto thy Lord that He make clear to us what (cow) she is. (Moses) answered: Lo! He saith, Verily she is a cow neither with calf nor immature; (she is) between the two conditions; so do that which ye are commanded.

Quran 2:68
لَّا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ إِن طَلَّقْتُمُ ٱلنِّسَآءَ مَا لَمْ تَمَسُّوهُنَّ أَوْ تَفْرِضُوا۟ لَهُنَّ فَرِيضَةً ۚ وَمَتِّعُوهُنَّ عَلَى ٱلْمُوسِعِ قَدَرُهُۥ وَعَلَى ٱلْمُقْتِرِ قَدَرُهُۥ مَتَـٰعًۢا بِٱلْمَعْرُوفِ ۖ حَقًّا عَلَى ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ

It is no sin for you if ye divorce women while yet ye have not touched them, nor appointed unto them a portion. Provide for them, the rich according to his means, and the straitened according to his means, a fair provision. (This is) a bounden duty for those who do good.

Quran 2:236
لِّلرِّجَالِ نَصِيبٌ مِّمَّا تَرَكَ ٱلْوَٰلِدَانِ وَٱلْأَقْرَبُونَ وَلِلنِّسَآءِ نَصِيبٌ مِّمَّا تَرَكَ ٱلْوَٰلِدَانِ وَٱلْأَقْرَبُونَ مِمَّا قَلَّ مِنْهُ أَوْ كَثُرَ ۚ نَصِيبًا مَّفْرُوضًا

Unto the men (of a family) belongeth a share of that which parents and near kindred leave, and unto the women a share of that which parents and near kindred leave, whether it be little or much - a legal share.

Quran 4:7

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

B1noun
فَرْضٌ
farḍ

obligation / religious duty

Example
سُورَةٌ أَنْزَلْنَاهَا وَفَرَضْنَاهَا
sūratun anzalnāhā wa-faraḍnāhā
A surah which We have sent down and made obligatory (24:1)
Grammar

Masculine noun. Verb: فَرَضَ (to make obligatory). Plural: فُرُوضٌ (obligations). In fiqh, denotes the highest level of obligation.

Culture

In Islamic jurisprudence, farḍ is the highest category of obligation - actions whose performance is rewarded and whose neglect is sinful.

B2noun
فَرَضِيَّة
faraḍiyya

hypothesis

Example
أَثبَتَتِ التَّجرِبَةُ صِحَّةَ الفَرَضِيَّة.
athbatati t-tajribatu ṣiḥḥata l-faraḍiyya.
The experiment proved the hypothesis correct.

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