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Arabic root

ق-ط-ط

Qaf-Tah-Tah

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About this root

Qaf-Tah-Tah (ق-ط-ط) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: qiṭṭ (cat).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 1 time in 1 verse, across 1 of the 114 suras. The first is in 38:16. The form قِطّ (cat) accounts for all of them.

Themes: Nature Weather

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
قِطّ
qiṭṭ
catnoun, B11×Flora & Fauna

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

وَقَالُوا۟ رَبَّنَا عَجِّل لَّنَا قِطَّنَا قَبْلَ يَوْمِ ٱلْحِسَابِ

They say: Our Lord! Hasten on for us our fate before the Day of Reckoning.

Quran 38:16

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

B1noun
قِطّ
qiṭṭ

cat

Example
القِطُّ يَنامُ عَلى الأَريكَة.
al-qiṭṭu yanāmu ʿalā l-arīka.
The cat is sleeping on the sofa.

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