Quranic root
شفي
sh · f · y
The root centers on standing at or overlooking the limit of something; healing is understood as overcoming and prevailing over illness.
From the notion of being on a brink or overlooking something, the lexicon connects شفاء with prevailing over disease. Related developments include the edge or brink of a thing, seeking or providing healing, and lip- and mouth-related vocabulary.
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- Quran-attested forms
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
شَفَى
shafā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
شِفَاء
shifāʾ
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 4 occurrences
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 9:14وَيَشْفِand will heal
- 10:57وَشِفَآءٌۭand a healing
- 16:69شِفَآءٌۭ(is) a healing
- 17:82شِفَآءٌۭ(is) a healing
- 26:80يَشْفِينِcures me
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 10 Classical meanings
شِفَاء
Healing; overcoming illness and restoring health.
A noun associated with prevailing over disease.
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اِسْتَشْفَى
To seek healing or a cure.
Used for seeking a means of recovery from illness.
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شَفًا
The edge, extremity, or brink of a thing; a small remaining portion.
The same lexical branch can describe being at an edge or having only a little left.
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أَشْفَى
To provide someone with something by which healing is sought.
A causative construction taking the thing supplied as its object.
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أَشْفَى
To approach or be on the verge of something, especially death; to draw near an endpoint.
Used with a person near death and figuratively of the sun nearing sunset.
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شَفَة
The lip.
The entry also discusses related diminutive and plural forms.
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أَشْفَى
Having lips that do not close together.
An adjectival description of the condition of the lips.
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شُفَاهِيّ
Large-lipped.
A physical adjective formed from شَفَة.
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مُشَافَهَة
Face-to-face oral communication; speaking directly from mouth to mouth.
Used for direct spoken exchange rather than written or mediated communication.
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شَفَهَنِي
He distracted or preoccupied me from something.
An anomalous lexical use construed with عن and the matter from which someone is diverted.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The two Quran-attested form groups are retained, but no numbered Quranic senses are asserted: the packet supplies only contextual Quran Foundation glosses, no unique Mufradat entry, and no direct Lane lexical discussion for شفي.
The supplied Lane entry points to شفو, whose referenced lexical discussion is not included in the packet; that pointer cannot by itself establish a Quran-form sense.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The Quran Foundation occurrences gloss شِفَاء as healing and يَشْفِي as healing or curing, but those contextual glosses cannot independently create dictionary senses under the evidence rules.
The Lane pointer to شفو may contain relevant lexical evidence, but the target entry is absent from the supplied packet, so its possible form-level contribution remains unassigned.