Arabic root

ط-ف-ل

Tah-Fa-Lam

2 words from this root family

About this root

Tah-Fa-Lam (ط-ف-ل) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: aṭfāl (children), ṭifl (child / baby).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 4 times in 4 verses, across 3 of the 114 suras. The first is in 22:5. The form طِفْل (child / baby) accounts for all of them.

Themes: Family, Basics

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
أَطفَال aṭfāl	children	noun, A1		Marriage & Relationships
طِفْل ṭifl	child / baby	noun, A1	4×	Marriage & Relationships

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

In the Quran

وَإِذَا بَلَغَ ٱلْأَطْفَـٰلُ مِنكُمُ ٱلْحُلُمَ فَلْيَسْتَـْٔذِنُوا۟ كَمَا ٱسْتَـْٔذَنَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمْ ءَايَـٰتِهِۦ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ

And when the children among you come to puberty then let them ask leave even as those before them used to ask it. Thus Allah maketh clear His revelations for you. Allah is Knower, Wise.

Quran 24:59

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).