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ق-ص-ص

Qaf-Sad-Sad

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About this root

Qaf-Sad-Sad (ق-ص-ص) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: qiṣṣa (story).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 30 times in 25 verses, across 14 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:178.

Themes: Hobbies, Entertainment

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
قِصّة
qiṣṣa
storynoun, A2Movies & Television

In the Quran

وَلَكُمْ فِى ٱلْقِصَاصِ حَيَوٰةٌ يَـٰٓأُو۟لِى ٱلْأَلْبَـٰبِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ

And there is life for you in retaliation, O men of understanding, that ye may ward off (evil).

Quran 2:179
إِنَّ هَـٰذَا لَهُوَ ٱلْقَصَصُ ٱلْحَقُّ ۚ وَمَا مِنْ إِلَـٰهٍ إِلَّا ٱللَّهُ ۚ وَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَهُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ

Lo! This verily is the true narrative. There is no God save Allah, and lo! Allah, He verily is, is the Mighty, the Wise.

Quran 3:62
وَرُسُلًا قَدْ قَصَصْنَـٰهُمْ عَلَيْكَ مِن قَبْلُ وَرُسُلًا لَّمْ نَقْصُصْهُمْ عَلَيْكَ ۚ وَكَلَّمَ ٱللَّهُ مُوسَىٰ تَكْلِيمًا

And messengers We have mentioned unto thee before and messengers We have not mentioned unto thee; and Allah spake directly unto Moses;

Quran 4:164

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
قِصّة
qiṣṣa

story

Example
أَحْكي لِلأَطْفال قِصّة قَبْلَ النَوْم.
aḥkī lil-aṭfāl qiṣṣa qabla an-nawm.
I tell the children a story before bed.

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