Rizwan Zubair

Root ع و ق ʿ-w-q

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ع و قʿ-w-q

(ن) عَاقَ يَعُوْقُ عَوْقًاʿāqa yaʿūqu ʿawqan (original form: عَوَقَʿawaqa): to hinder, to hold back, to turn back. (this verb is not used in the Quran).

Form II (tafʿīl) عَوَّقَ يُعَوِّقُ تَعْوِيْقًاʿawwaqa yuʿawwiqu taʿwīqan: to hinder others and hold them back; مُعَوِّقmuʿawwiq pl. مُعَوِّقِيْنmuʿawwiqīn (active participle, ism fāʿil). Also "يَعُوْقyaʿūq", the name of an idol of the people of Nūḥ. Only once in the Quran (as a verb), in the description of the hypocrites: ﴿قَدْ يَعْلَمُ اللّٰهُ الْمُعَوِّقِيْنَ مِنْكُمْ﴾ (Al-Aḥzāb 33:18).

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