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ن-ص-ف

Nun-Sad-Fa

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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

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
نِصْف
niṣf
halfnoun, A17×Telling Time

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In the Quran

نِّصْفَهُۥٓ أَوِ ٱنقُصْ مِنْهُ قَلِيلًا

A half thereof, or abate a little thereof

Quran 73:3

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).

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