Arabic root

ش-و-ك

Shin-Waw-Kaf

1 word from this root family

About this root

Shin-Waw-Kaf (ش-و-ك) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: shawka (fork).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 1 time in 1 verse, across 1 of the 114 suras. The first is in 8:7. The form شَوْكَة (fork) accounts for all of them.

Themes: Dining, Home

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
شَوْكَة shawka	fork	noun, A1	1×	At the Restaurant - Part 2

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

In the Quran

وَإِذْ يَعِدُكُمُ ٱللَّهُ إِحْدَى ٱلطَّآئِفَتَيْنِ أَنَّهَا لَكُمْ وَتَوَدُّونَ أَنَّ غَيْرَ ذَاتِ ٱلشَّوْكَةِ تَكُونُ لَكُمْ وَيُرِيدُ ٱللَّهُ أَن يُحِقَّ ٱلْحَقَّ بِكَلِمَـٰتِهِۦ وَيَقْطَعَ دَابِرَ ٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَ

And when Allah promised you one of the two bands (of the enemy) that it should be yours, and ye longed that other than the armed one might be yours. And Allah willed that He should cause the Truth to triumph by His words, and cut the root of the disbelievers;

Quran 8:7

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).