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Arabic root

خ-ف-ف

Kha-Fa-Fa

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About this root

Kha-Fa-Fa (خ-ف-ف) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: khafīf (light (weight)).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 17 times in 17 verses, across 13 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:86.

Themes: Adjectives, Physical

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
خَفيف
khafīf
light (weight)adjective, A1Adjectives - Speed, Temperature & Quantity

In the Quran

أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱشْتَرَوُا۟ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا بِٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ ۖ فَلَا يُخَفَّفُ عَنْهُمُ ٱلْعَذَابُ وَلَا هُمْ يُنصَرُونَ

Such are those who buy the life of the world at the price of the Hereafter. Their punishment will not be lightened, neither will they have support.

Quran 2:86
وَمَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ فَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ خَسِرُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُم بِمَا كَانُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا يَظْلِمُونَ

And as for those whose scale is light: those are they who lose their souls because they used to wrong Our revelations.

Quran 7:9
ٱنفِرُوا۟ خِفَافًا وَثِقَالًا وَجَـٰهِدُوا۟ بِأَمْوَٰلِكُمْ وَأَنفُسِكُمْ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ ذَٰلِكُمْ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

Go forth, light-armed and heavy-armed, and strive with your wealth and your lives in the way of Allah! That is best for you if ye but knew.

Quran 9:41

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
خَفيف
khafīf

light (weight)

Example
هٰذا صُندوقٌ خَفيف
hādhā ṣundūqun khafīf
This is a light box
Grammar

Feminine form: khafīfa (خَفيفة). Opposite of thaqīl (ثَقيل). Also means 'gentle' or 'mild'.

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