Arabic root

ث-ق-ف

Tha-Qaf-Fa

1 word from this root family

About this root

Tha-Qaf-Fa (ث-ق-ف) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: thaqāfa (culture).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 6 times in 6 verses, across 6 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:191.

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
ثَقَافَة thaqāfa	culture	noun, B1	Ideas & Opinions

In the Quran

فَإِمَّا تَثْقَفَنَّهُمْ فِى ٱلْحَرْبِ فَشَرِّدْ بِهِم مَّنْ خَلْفَهُمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ

If thou comest on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember.

Quran 8:57

مَّلْعُونِينَ ۖ أَيْنَمَا ثُقِفُوٓا۟ أُخِذُوا۟ وَقُتِّلُوا۟ تَقْتِيلًا

Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter.

Quran 33:61

إِن يَثْقَفُوكُمْ يَكُونُوا۟ لَكُمْ أَعْدَآءً وَيَبْسُطُوٓا۟ إِلَيْكُمْ أَيْدِيَهُمْ وَأَلْسِنَتَهُم بِٱلسُّوٓءِ وَوَدُّوا۟ لَوْ تَكْفُرُونَ

If they have the upper hand of you, they will be your foes, and will stretch out their hands and their tongues toward you with evil (intent), and they long for you to disbelieve.

Quran 60:2

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).