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و-ق-ت

Waw-Qaf-Ta

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About this root

Waw-Qaf-Ta (و-ق-ت) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: waqt farāgh (free time / leisure).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 13 times in 13 verses, across 10 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:189.

Themes: Hobbies, Basics

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
وَقْت فَراغ
waqt farāgh
free time / leisurenoun, A2Social Activities & Gatherings

In the Quran

فَإِذَا قَضَيْتُمُ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ فَٱذْكُرُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ قِيَـٰمًا وَقُعُودًا وَعَلَىٰ جُنُوبِكُمْ ۚ فَإِذَا ٱطْمَأْنَنتُمْ فَأَقِيمُوا۟ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ ۚ إِنَّ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ كَانَتْ عَلَى ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ كِتَـٰبًا مَّوْقُوتًا

When ye have performed the act of worship, remember Allah, standing, sitting and reclining. And when ye are in safety, observe proper worship. Worship at fixed times hath been enjoined on the believers.

Quran 4:103
۞ وَوَٰعَدْنَا مُوسَىٰ ثَلَـٰثِينَ لَيْلَةً وَأَتْمَمْنَـٰهَا بِعَشْرٍ فَتَمَّ مِيقَـٰتُ رَبِّهِۦٓ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً ۚ وَقَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِأَخِيهِ هَـٰرُونَ ٱخْلُفْنِى فِى قَوْمِى وَأَصْلِحْ وَلَا تَتَّبِعْ سَبِيلَ ٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ

And when We did appoint for Moses thirty nights (of solitude), and added to them ten, and he completed the whole time appointed by his Lord of forty nights; and Moses said unto his brother, Aaron: Take my place among the people. Do right, and follow not the way of mischief-makers.

Quran 7:142
وَإِذَا ٱلرُّسُلُ أُقِّتَتْ

And when the messengers are brought unto their time appointed -

Quran 77:11

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

A2noun
وَقْت فَراغ
waqt farāgh

free time / leisure

Example
ماذا تَفْعَل في وَقْت الفَراغ؟
mādha tafʿal fī waqt al-farāgh?
What do you do in your free time?

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