Arabic root

ف-ر-ق

Fa-Ra-Qaf

2 words from this root family

About this root

Fa-Ra-Qaf (ف-ر-ق) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: furqān (criterion / distinction (between truth and falsehood)), farīq (team).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 72 times in 66 verses, across 30 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:50. The form فُرْقَانٌ (criterion / distinction (between truth and falsehood)) accounts for 7 of them.

Themes: Quranic, Work

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
فُرْقَانٌ furqān	criterion / distinction (between truth and falsehood)	noun, A2	7×	Faith, Monotheism, and Hypocrisy
فَريق farīq	team	noun, A2		Professional Life

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

In the Quran

وَإِذْ فَرَقْنَا بِكُمُ ٱلْبَحْرَ فَأَنجَيْنَـٰكُمْ وَأَغْرَقْنَآ ءَالَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَأَنتُمْ تَنظُرُونَ

And when We brought you through the sea and rescued you, and drowned the folk of Pharaoh in your sight.

Quran 2:50

وَإِذْ ءَاتَيْنَا مُوسَى ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ وَٱلْفُرْقَانَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ

And when We gave unto Moses the Scripture and the criterion (of right and wrong), that ye might be led aright.

Quran 2:53

۞ أَفَتَطْمَعُونَ أَن يُؤْمِنُوا۟ لَكُمْ وَقَدْ كَانَ فَرِيقٌ مِّنْهُمْ يَسْمَعُونَ كَلَـٰمَ ٱللَّهِ ثُمَّ يُحَرِّفُونَهُۥ مِنۢ بَعْدِ مَا عَقَلُوهُ وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ

Have ye any hope that they will be true to you when a party of them used to listen to the word of Allah, then used to change it, after they had understood it, knowingly?

Quran 2:75

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).