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Arabic root

ل-ف-ف

Lam-Fa-Fa

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About this root

Lam-Fa-Fa (ل-ف-ف) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: milaff (file / folder).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 3 times in 3 verses, across 3 of the 114 suras. The first is in 17:104.

Themes: Work, Items, Technology Media

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
مِلَفّ
milaff
file / foldernoun, A2Finance & Salary

In the Quran

وَقُلْنَا مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ لِبَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ ٱسْكُنُوا۟ ٱلْأَرْضَ فَإِذَا جَآءَ وَعْدُ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ جِئْنَا بِكُمْ لَفِيفًا

And We said unto the Children of Israel after him: Dwell in the land; but when the promise of the Hereafter cometh to pass We shall bring you as a crowd gathered out of various nations.

Quran 17:104

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

A2noun
مِلَفّ
milaff

file / folder

Example
ضَع الوَثائِق في المِلَفّ.
ḍaʿ al-wathāʾiq fī al-milaff.
Put the documents in the file.

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