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Arabic root

س-ع-ي

Sin-Ayn-Ya

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About this root

Sin-Ayn-Ya (س-ع-ي) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: saʿy (Sa'i (walking between Safa and Marwa)).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 30 times in 28 verses, across 20 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:114. The form سَعْيٌ (Sa'i (walking between Safa and Marwa)) accounts for 10 of them.

Themes: Travel Phrasebook, Hajj Umrah

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
سَعْيٌ
saʿy
Sa'i (walking between Safa and Marwa)noun, B110×Hajj & Umrah - Sacred Journey

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

In the Quran

وَإِذَا تَوَلَّىٰ سَعَىٰ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ لِيُفْسِدَ فِيهَا وَيُهْلِكَ ٱلْحَرْثَ وَٱلنَّسْلَ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ ٱلْفَسَادَ

And when he turneth away (from thee) his effort in the land is to make mischief therein and to destroy the crops and the cattle; and Allah loveth not mischief.

Quran 2:205
وَمَنْ أَرَادَ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةَ وَسَعَىٰ لَهَا سَعْيَهَا وَهُوَ مُؤْمِنٌ فَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ كَانَ سَعْيُهُم مَّشْكُورًا

And whoso desireth the Hereafter and striveth for it with the effort necessary, being a believer; for such, their effort findeth favour (with their Lord).

Quran 17:19
ٱلَّذِينَ ضَلَّ سَعْيُهُمْ فِى ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَهُمْ يَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُمْ يُحْسِنُونَ صُنْعًا

Those whose effort goeth astray in the life of the world, and yet they reckon that they do good work.

Quran 18:104

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
سَعْيٌ
saʿy

Sa'i (walking between Safa and Marwa)

Example
بَعْدَ الطَّوَافِ أَدَّيْتُ السَّعْيَ بَيْنَ الصَّفَا وَالْمَرْوَةِ.
baʿda aṭ-ṭawāfi addaytu as-saʿya bayna aṣ-ṣafā wal-marwa.
After the Tawaf, I performed the Sa'i between Safa and Marwa.

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