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Arabic root

ل-و-ح

Lam-Waw-Ha

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About this root

Lam-Waw-Ha (ل-و-ح) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: lawḥa (painting / artwork).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 6 times in 6 verses, across 4 of the 114 suras. The first is in 7:145.

Themes: Hobbies, Art

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
لَوْحة
lawḥa
painting / artworknoun, A2Cooking & Food Hobbies

In the Quran

وَكَتَبْنَا لَهُۥ فِى ٱلْأَلْوَاحِ مِن كُلِّ شَىْءٍ مَّوْعِظَةً وَتَفْصِيلًا لِّكُلِّ شَىْءٍ فَخُذْهَا بِقُوَّةٍ وَأْمُرْ قَوْمَكَ يَأْخُذُوا۟ بِأَحْسَنِهَا ۚ سَأُو۟رِيكُمْ دَارَ ٱلْفَـٰسِقِينَ

And We wrote for him, upon the tablets, the lesson to be drawn from all things and the explanation of all things, then (bade him): Hold it fast; and command thy people (saying): Take the better (course made clear) therein. I shall show thee the abode of evil-livers.

Quran 7:145
وَلَمَّا سَكَتَ عَن مُّوسَى ٱلْغَضَبُ أَخَذَ ٱلْأَلْوَاحَ ۖ وَفِى نُسْخَتِهَا هُدًى وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِرَبِّهِمْ يَرْهَبُونَ

Then, when the anger of Moses abated, he took up the tablets, and in their inscription there was guidance and mercy for all those who fear their Lord.

Quran 7:154
وَحَمَلْنَـٰهُ عَلَىٰ ذَاتِ أَلْوَٰحٍ وَدُسُرٍ

And We carried him upon a thing of planks and nails,

Quran 54:13

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
لَوْحة
lawḥa

painting / artwork

Example
رَسَمَ لَوْحة بِالأَلْوان المائِيّة.
rasama lawḥa bil-alwān al-māʾiyya.
He painted a watercolor painting.

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