Rizwan Zubair

Root ف ک ھ f-k-h

Quranic citations in this entry: 2 · اردو

ف ک ھf-k-h

(س) فَكِهَ يَفْكَهُ فَكَاهَةًfakiha yafkahu fakāhatan: to be cheerful, to jest and joke. (This verb is not used in the Quran.)

فَاكِهَةfākihah pl. فَوَاكِهfawākih: fruit — especially fruit eaten for pleasure rather than for sustenance; hence the lexicographers distinguish between fākihah and ṭaʿām.

فَاكِهfākih pl. فَاكِهِيْنfākihīn / فَكِهfakih pl. فَكِهِيْنfakihīn: cheerful, enjoying oneself.

Form V (tafaʿʿul) تَفَكَّهَ يَتَفَكَّهُ تَفَكُّهًاtafakkaha yatafakkahu tafakkuhan: to wonder and regret (one of the words with opposite meanings: both to enjoy and to repent). 19 times in the Quran: ﴿فِيْهِمَا فَاكِهَةٌ وَّنَخْلٌ وَّرُمَّانٌ﴾ (Ar-Raḥmān 55:68) and ﴿فَظَلْتُمْ تَفَكَّهُوْنَ﴾ (Al-Wāqiʿah 56:65).

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