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م-و-ل

Mim-Waw-Lam

2 words from this root family

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Mim-Waw-Lam (م-و-ل) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: māl (money / wealth), tamwīl (funding / financing).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 86 times in 80 verses, across 38 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:155. The form مَال (money / wealth) accounts for all of them.

Themes: Shopping, Basics, Academic Formal

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
مَال
māl
money / wealthnoun, A286×At the Market
تَمْوِيل
tamwīl
funding / financingnoun, B2Scholarly Discussion

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

In the Quran

وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُم بِشَىْءٍ مِّنَ ٱلْخَوْفِ وَٱلْجُوعِ وَنَقْصٍ مِّنَ ٱلْأَمْوَٰلِ وَٱلْأَنفُسِ وَٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ ۗ وَبَشِّرِ ٱلصَّـٰبِرِينَ

And surely We shall try you with something of fear and hunger, and loss of wealth and lives and crops; but give glad tidings to the steadfast,

Quran 2:155
وَلَا تَأْكُلُوٓا۟ أَمْوَٰلَكُم بَيْنَكُم بِٱلْبَـٰطِلِ وَتُدْلُوا۟ بِهَآ إِلَى ٱلْحُكَّامِ لِتَأْكُلُوا۟ فَرِيقًا مِّنْ أَمْوَٰلِ ٱلنَّاسِ بِٱلْإِثْمِ وَأَنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

And eat not up your property among yourselves in vanity, nor seek by it to gain the hearing of the judges that ye may knowingly devour a portion of the property of others wrongfully.

Quran 2:188
مَّثَلُ ٱلَّذِينَ يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَٰلَهُمْ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ كَمَثَلِ حَبَّةٍ أَنۢبَتَتْ سَبْعَ سَنَابِلَ فِى كُلِّ سُنۢبُلَةٍ مِّا۟ئَةُ حَبَّةٍ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ يُضَـٰعِفُ لِمَن يَشَآءُ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ وَٰسِعٌ عَلِيمٌ

The likeness of those who spend their wealth in Allah's way is as the likeness of a grain which groweth seven ears, in every ear a hundred grains. Allah giveth increase manifold to whom He will. Allah is All-Embracing, All-Knowing.

Quran 2:261

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
مَال
māl

money / wealth

Example
لَيْسَ مَعي مال كَثير.
laysa maʿī māl kathīr.
I don't have much money.
B2noun
تَمْوِيل
tamwīl

funding / financing

Example
يَحتاجُ المَشروعُ إلى تَمويلٍ إضافِيّ.
yaḥtāju l-mashrūʿu ilā tamwīlin iḍāfiyy.
The project needs additional funding.

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