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Arabic root

ق-ف-و

Qaf-Fa-Waw

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About this root

Qaf-Fa-Waw (ق-ف-و) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: qāfiya (rhyme).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 5 times in 4 verses, across 4 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:87.

Themes: Literature Arts

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
قَافِيَة
qāfiya
rhymenoun, B2Poetry & Prose

In the Quran

وَلَا تَقْفُ مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ بِهِۦ عِلْمٌ ۚ إِنَّ ٱلسَّمْعَ وَٱلْبَصَرَ وَٱلْفُؤَادَ كُلُّ أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ كَانَ عَنْهُ مَسْـُٔولًا

(O man), follow not that whereof thou hast no knowledge. Lo! the hearing and the sight and the heart - of each of these it will be asked.

Quran 17:36

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

B2noun
قَافِيَة
qāfiya

rhyme

Example
اِلتَزَمَ الشّاعِرُ بِالقافِيَةِ المُوَحَّدَة.
iltazama sh-shāʿiru bi-l-qāfiyati l-muwaḥḥada.
The poet adhered to a unified rhyme.

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