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Arabic root

ق-ي-ل

Qaf-Ya-Lam

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About this root

Qaf-Ya-Lam (ق-ي-ل) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: istaqāla (to resign).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 2 times in 2 verses, across 2 of the 114 suras. The first is in 7:4.

Themes: Work, Verbs

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
اِسْتَقالَ
istaqāla
to resignverb, A2Finance & Salary, Public Opinion & Propaganda

In the Quran

وَكَم مِّن قَرْيَةٍ أَهْلَكْنَـٰهَا فَجَآءَهَا بَأْسُنَا بَيَـٰتًا أَوْ هُمْ قَآئِلُونَ

How many a township have We destroyed! As a raid by night, or while they slept at noon, Our terror came unto them.

Quran 7:4
أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْجَنَّةِ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَيْرٌ مُّسْتَقَرًّا وَأَحْسَنُ مَقِيلًا

Those who have earned the Garden on that day will be better in their home and happier in their place of noonday rest;

Quran 25:24

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

A2verb
اِسْتَقالَ
istaqāla

to resign

Example
اِسْتَقالَ مِن وَظيفَتِه.
istaqāla min waẓīfatihi.
He resigned from his job.

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