Arabic root

ش-ك-ل

Shin-Kaf-Lam

2 words from this root family

About this root

Shin-Kaf-Lam (ش-ك-ل) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: mushkila (problem), tashkīliyy (fine (art) / visual).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 2 times in 2 verses, across 2 of the 114 suras. The first is in 17:84.

Themes: Work, Abstract Concepts, Literature Arts

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
مُشْكِلة mushkila	problem	noun, A2	Professional Life
تَشْكِيلِيّ tashkīliyy	fine (art) / visual	adjective, B2	Cultural Movements

In the Quran

قُلْ كُلٌّ يَعْمَلُ عَلَىٰ شَاكِلَتِهِۦ فَرَبُّكُمْ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنْ هُوَ أَهْدَىٰ سَبِيلًا

Say: Each one doth according to his rule of conduct, and thy Lord is Best Aware of him whose way is right.

Quran 17:84

وَءَاخَرُ مِن شَكْلِهِۦٓ أَزْوَٰجٌ

And other (torment) of the kind in pairs (the two extremes)!

Quran 38:58

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).