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Arabic root

و-ع-ي

Waw-Ayn-Ya

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About this root

Waw-Ayn-Ya (و-ع-ي) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: waʿy (awareness / consciousness).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 7 times in 4 verses, across 4 of the 114 suras. The first is in 12:76.

Themes: Abstract Concepts

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
وَعْي
waʿy
awareness / consciousnessnoun, B1Values & Beliefs

In the Quran

لِنَجْعَلَهَا لَكُمْ تَذْكِرَةً وَتَعِيَهَآ أُذُنٌ وَٰعِيَةٌ

That We might make it a memorial for you, and that remembering ears (that heard the story) might remember.

Quran 69:12
وَٱللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يُوعُونَ

And Allah knoweth best what they are hiding.

Quran 84:23

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
وَعْي
waʿy

awareness / consciousness

Example
يَجِبُ نَشرُ الوَعيِ بَينَ النّاس.
yajibu nashru l-waʿyi bayna n-nās.
We must spread awareness among people.

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