Rizwan Zubair

Root ق و ی q-w-y

Quranic citations in this entry: 3 · اردو

ق و یq-w-y

(س) قَوِيَ يَقْوَيٰ قُوَّةًqawiya yaqwā quwwatan: to be strong — the opposite of ضَعْفḍaʿf. (This verb is not used in the Quran.)

قُوَّةquwwah pl. قُويٰqūyā: strength, power.

قَوِيّqawiyy (pattern فَعِيْلfaʿīl): very strong — one of the names of Allah, and in the Quran it mostly occurs together with «الْعَزِيْزal-ʿazīz».

Form II (tafʿīl) قَوَّى يُقَوِّيْ تَقْوِيَةًqawwā yuqawwī taqwiyatan: to strengthen; to give power (this verb is not used in the Quran).

Form IV (ifʿāl) أَقْوَيٰaqwā: to alight in a desert; مُقْوٍmuqw pl. مُقْوِيْنmuqwīn (active participle, ism fāʿil): a traveller, one who camps in the desert. 42 times in the Quran: ﴿إِنَّ اللّٰهَ لَقَوِيٌّ عَزِيْزٌ﴾ (Al-Ḥajj 22:40), ﴿وَأَعِدُّوْا لَهُمْ مَّا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ مِّنْ قُوَّةٍ﴾ (Al-Anfāl 8:60), ﴿نَحْنُ جَعَلْنَاهَا تَذْكِرَةً وَّمَتَاعًا لِّلْمُقْوِيْنَ﴾ (Al-Wāqiʿah 56:73).

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