A1noun
نِصْف
niṣf
half
Example
السَّاعَةُ الثَّالِثَةُ وَالنِّصْفُ
as-sāʿatu ath-thālithatu wa-an-niṣfu
It is half past three
Nun-Sad-Fa
1 word from this root family
Nun-Sad-Fa (ن-ص-ف) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: niṣf (half).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 7 times in 7 verses, across 3 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:237. The form نِصْف (half) accounts for all of them.
Themes: Time, Numbers, Numbers Practical
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
نِصْف niṣf | half | noun, A1 | 7× | Telling Time |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
نِّصْفَهُۥٓ أَوِ ٱنقُصْ مِنْهُ قَلِيلًاA half thereof, or abate a little thereof
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).