Rizwan Zubair

Root م ک و m-k-w

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م ک وm-k-w

(ن) مَكَا يَمْكُوْ مَكْوًا وَمُكَاءًmakā yamkū makwan wa-mukāʾan (original form: مَكَوَ يَمْكُوُmakawa yamkuwu): to whistle with the mouth. (This verb is not used in the Quran.)

مُكَاءٌmukāʾ (verbal noun, maṣdar; also a noun, ism dhāt): whistling. Only once in the Quran, in the account of the worship of the polytheists: ﴿وَمَا كَانَ صَلَاتُهُمْ عِنْدَ الْبَيْتِ اِلَّا مُكَآءً وَّتَصْدِيَةً﴾ (Al-Anfāl 8:35)

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