Rizwan Zubair

Root ق ع ر q-ʿ-r

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ق ع رq-ʿ-r

(ف) قَعَرَ يَقْعَرُ قَعْرًاqaʿara yaqʿaru qaʿran: to reach the bottom of a thing; to uproot. (This verb is not used in the Quran.)

قَعْرqaʿr: depth, bottom.

Form VII (infiʿāl) اِنْقَعَرَ يَنْقَعِرُ اِنْقِعَارًاinqaʿara yanqaʿiru inqiʿāran: to be uprooted; مُنْقَعِرmunqaʿir (active participle, ism fāʿil). Only once in the Quran, in the fate of the people of ʿĀd: ﴿تَنْزِعُ النَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُّنْقَعِرٍ﴾ (Al-Qamar 54:20) — that is, uprooted trunks of date-palms.

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