Arabic root

و-ق-ف

Waw-Qaf-Fa

3 words from this root family

About this root

Waw-Qaf-Fa (و-ق-ف) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: waqafa (to stand / to stop), tawaqqafa (to stop), mawqif (parking / stop).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 4 times in 4 verses, across 3 of the 114 suras. The first is in 6:27.

Themes: Verbs, Daily, Actions, Travel, Places

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
وَقَفَ waqafa	to stand / to stop	verb, A1	Action Verbs - Daily Activities
تَوَقَّفَ tawaqqafa	to stop	verb, A1	Action Verbs - Social Interactions
مَوْقِف mawqif	parking / stop	noun, A2	City Transportation

In the Quran

وَلَوْ تَرَىٰٓ إِذْ وُقِفُوا۟ عَلَى ٱلنَّارِ فَقَالُوا۟ يَـٰلَيْتَنَا نُرَدُّ وَلَا نُكَذِّبَ بِـَٔايَـٰتِ رَبِّنَا وَنَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

If thou couldst see when they are set before the Fire and say: Oh, would that we might return! Then would we not deny the revelations of our Lord but we would be of the believers!

Quran 6:27

وَلَوْ تَرَىٰٓ إِذْ وُقِفُوا۟ عَلَىٰ رَبِّهِمْ ۚ قَالَ أَلَيْسَ هَـٰذَا بِٱلْحَقِّ ۚ قَالُوا۟ بَلَىٰ وَرَبِّنَا ۚ قَالَ فَذُوقُوا۟ ٱلْعَذَابَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْفُرُونَ

If thou couldst see when they are set before their Lord! He will say: Is not this real? They will say: Yea, verily, by our Lord! He will say: Taste now the retribution for that ye used to disbelieve.

Quran 6:30

وَقِفُوهُمْ ۖ إِنَّهُم مَّسْـُٔولُونَ

And stop them, for they must be questioned.

Quran 37:24

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).