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ف-س-ر

Fa-Sin-Ra

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About this root

Fa-Sin-Ra (ف-س-ر) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: tafsīr (interpretation / exegesis / explanation).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 1 time in 1 verse, across 1 of the 114 suras. The first is in 25:33. The form تَفْسِيرٌ (interpretation / exegesis / explanation) accounts for all of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
تَفْسِيرٌ
tafsīr
interpretation / exegesis / explanationnoun, B21×Advanced Quranic & Islamic Terminology

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

In the Quran

وَلَا يَأْتُونَكَ بِمَثَلٍ إِلَّا جِئْنَـٰكَ بِٱلْحَقِّ وَأَحْسَنَ تَفْسِيرًا

And they bring thee no similitude but We bring thee the Truth (as against it), and better (than their similitude) as argument.

Quran 25:33

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

B2noun
تَفْسِيرٌ
tafsīr

interpretation / exegesis / explanation

Example
وَلَا يَأْتُونَكَ بِمَثَلٍ إِلَّا جِئْنَاكَ بِالْحَقِّ وَأَحْسَنَ تَفْسِيرًا
wa-lā yaʾtūnaka bi-mathalin illā jiʾnāka bil-ḥaqqi wa-aḥsana tafsīrā
They do not come to you with an argument except that We bring you the truth and a better explanation (25:33)
Grammar

Form II maṣdar (تَفْعِيل). Verb: فَسَّرَ (to explain/interpret). The academic discipline of Quranic interpretation is called ʿilm at-tafsīr.

Culture

Tafsīr is one of the most important Islamic sciences. Famous works include Tafsīr aṭ-Ṭabarī, Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr, and Tafsīr al-Jalālayn.

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