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Arabic root

ن-ش-ط

Nun-Shin-Tah

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About this root

Nun-Shin-Tah (ن-ش-ط) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: nashīṭ (active / energetic).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 2 times in 1 verse, across 1 of the 114 suras. The first is in 79:2.

Themes: Adjectives, Character

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
نَشيط
nashīṭ
active / energeticadjective, A1Adjectives - Degree & Intensity

In the Quran

وَٱلنَّـٰشِطَـٰتِ نَشْطًا

By the meteors rushing,

Quran 79:2
وَٱلنَّـٰشِطَـٰتِ نَشْطًا

By the meteors rushing,

Quran 79:2

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

A1adjective
نَشيط
nashīṭ

active / energetic

Example
الطِّفلُ نَشيط
aṭ-ṭiflu nashīṭ
The child is active
Grammar

Feminine form: nashīṭa (نَشيطة). Opposite of kasūl (كَسول).

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