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Arabic root

ق-ط-ر

Qaf-Tah-Ra

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About this root

Qaf-Tah-Ra (ق-ط-ر) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: qiṭār (train).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 5 times in 5 verses, across 5 of the 114 suras. The first is in 14:50.

Themes: Travel, Transportation

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
قِطار
qiṭār
trainnoun, A2At the Airport

In the Quran

سَرَابِيلُهُم مِّن قَطِرَانٍ وَتَغْشَىٰ وُجُوهَهُمُ ٱلنَّارُ

Their raiment of pitch, and the Fire covering their faces,

Quran 14:50
ءَاتُونِى زُبَرَ ٱلْحَدِيدِ ۖ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا سَاوَىٰ بَيْنَ ٱلصَّدَفَيْنِ قَالَ ٱنفُخُوا۟ ۖ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا جَعَلَهُۥ نَارًا قَالَ ءَاتُونِىٓ أُفْرِغْ عَلَيْهِ قِطْرًا

Give me pieces of iron - till, when he had levelled up (the gap) between the cliffs, he said: Blow! - till, when he had made it a fire, he said: Bring me molten copper to pour thereon.

Quran 18:96
وَلَوْ دُخِلَتْ عَلَيْهِم مِّنْ أَقْطَارِهَا ثُمَّ سُئِلُوا۟ ٱلْفِتْنَةَ لَـَٔاتَوْهَا وَمَا تَلَبَّثُوا۟ بِهَآ إِلَّا يَسِيرًا

If the enemy had entered from all sides and they had been exhorted to treachery, they would have committed it, and would have hesitated thereupon but little.

Quran 33:14

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
قِطار
qiṭār

train

Example
سافَرْتُ بِالقِطار إلى القاهِرة.
sāfartu bil-qiṭār ilā al-qāhira.
I traveled by train to Cairo.

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