Quranic root
فكك
f · k · k
The root centers on opening apart, loosening, and creating a gap between things joined or closed.
From this principle develop separation and dislocation, release and redemption, and the idiom لا ينفكّ, in which the subject and its action are not separated and therefore continue together.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
فَكّ
fakk
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Freeing a person from bondage; emancipation, especially the emancipation of a slave.
In فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ (90:13), the expression is interpreted as emancipating a slave.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 90:13word 1
“(It is) freeing”
Deliverance from divine punishment through faith, righteous action, and helping others attain the same.
A figurative interpretation of فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ in 90:13, extending release from bondage to release from subjection to God's punishment.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 90:13word 1
“(It is) freeing”
مُنْفَكّ
munfakk
- Part of speech
- Active participle · Form VII
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Desisting or ceasing from a state or course, especially from disbelief.
In the negated construction of 98:1, one interpretation takes مُنْفَكِّينَ as meaning that they did not cease from their disbelief until the clear evidence came.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 98:1word 9
“to be abandoned”
Being separated or dispersed from one another.
In 98:1, this reading is applied under negation: they were not separated into different parties, but remained united in error.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 98:1word 9
“to be abandoned”
Being released or finding rest from a thing.
A reported interpretation of مُنْفَكِّينَ in 98:1; the broader construction denotes release or relief from a condition.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 98:1word 9
“to be abandoned”
Quitting the present state of existence and sharing in perdition until the evidence arrives.
A reported interpretation specific to the reading of 98:1; it should not be generalized to every occurrence of انفكّ.
- Lane · entry 34752
Selected Quran examples
Quran 98:1word 9
“to be abandoned”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 30 Classical meanings
فَكَّ
To separate one thing from another, especially things joined or intricately intermixed; also to break open a seal.
The basic transitive Form I usage.
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فَكَّ
To dislocate a bone or put it out of joint.
A bodily application of separating or loosening.
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فَكَّ يَدَهُ
To open or unclose the hand from what it holds.
A conventional bodily construction.
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فَكَّ الرَّهْنَ
To redeem a pledge and recover it from the person to whom it was pledged.
A conventional Form I construction.
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فَكَّ
To loosen, set free, or let go; specifically, to liberate a captive or emancipate a slave.
This broader verbal branch includes release from physical or social bondage; the Quranic nounal use is listed separately above.
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يَفُكُّ المَشَاكِلَ
To solve or disentangle matters that are obscure, confused, or difficult.
A figurative extension of disentangling.
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فَكَّ
To become extremely old, weak, and flaccid.
A figurative Form I usage applied to a person.
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فَكَكْتُ الصَّبِيَّ
To put medicine into a young child's mouth by opening the jaws.
A specific transitive construction.
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فَكَّ
To become foolish or stupid, with softness, flaccidity, or languor.
A rare figurative Form I usage.
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أَفَكَّتْ / مُفِكَّةٌ
Of a she-camel near parturition: to become lax in the hindquarters, with the udder becoming large.
مُفِكَّةٌ is a participial designation for a she-camel in this condition.
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أَفَكَّتْ
Of a she-camel: to become intensely desirous of the stallion.
An alternative lexical explanation of the same camel-related construction.
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أَفَكَّ
Of a gazelle: to get loose from a snare.
A Form IV escape construction.
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تَفَكَّكَ
To become widely separated or unclosed; of a ship, to part asunder and come apart at its joined places.
A Form V intransitive or middle usage.
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تَفَكَّكَ
To act without self-restraint through stupidity or unsoundness of intellect, including looseness in gait, speech, or bodily movement.
A figurative Form V usage; looseness of the joints and gesturing are included in the described behavior.
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اِنْفَكَّ
To become separated from something or someone.
The ordinary intransitive Form VII separation construction.
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اِنْفَكَّ
Of a bone, foot, or finger: to become loosened, dislocated, or out of joint.
A bodily Form VII usage, with separation from the joint as its result.
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اِنْفَكَّتْ رَقَبَتُهُ مِنَ الرِّقِّ
To become free from slavery, literally with one's neck becoming loosened from bondage.
A reflexive or intransitive Form VII construction.
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اِنْفَكَّ عَنْ عَهْدِهِ
To become released from a compact, engagement, or promise.
A figurative Form VII construction with عَنْ.
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لَا يَنْفَكُّ عَنْ
To desist or cease from an action.
In لَا يَنْفَكُّ عَنْ قُبْحِ فِعْلِهِ, the construction means that someone does not desist from evil conduct.
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مَا اِنْفَكَّ
To continue to be or do something; to remain engaged in an action.
With ما and a following predicate, مَا اِنْفَكَّ is equivalent to ما زال. This is a conventional non-attributive use of Form VII.
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الفَكُّ
The jaw, especially either lateral portion of the lower jaw; also the meeting or commissure of the jaws.
A body-part noun, with plural فُكُوكٌ.
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الفَكَّةُ
A northern constellation of stars, identified with Corona Borealis and described as a circular group with a gap.
A proper astronomical noun, unrelated to the verbal-noun usage of فَكَّةٌ.
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فَكَكٌ / أَفَكُّ
An unknit or loosened bodily condition, especially separation of the shoulder from its joint; also dislocation of the foot and fracture or dislocation of the jaw.
فَكَكٌ names the condition; أَفَكُّ describes a person whose shoulder-bone has become unknit from weakness and flaccidity.
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فَكَاكُ الرَّهْنِ / فِكَاكُهُ
That by which a pledge is redeemed.
A noun for the means or payment used to release the pledge, distinct from the act of redeeming it.
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فَكَّاكٌ / فَاكٌّ
One who separates frequently or extensively; فَاكٌّ also means separating.
The intensive agent noun and the active participle express the same separating branch with different morphological force.
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فَكَّاكٌ
A foolish or stupid person whose words and their meanings are inconsistent.
A figurative agent-noun usage, including the expression فَكَّاكٌ هَكَّاكٌ.
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فَاكٌّ
Extremely old, weak, or disabled through leanness or emaciation.
Applied to a man or, in the cited usage, to a camel.
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فَاكٌّ
Foolish or stupid; especially one who speaks about what he knows and does not know, more often incorrectly than correctly.
A figurative adjective with plural forms فَكَكَةٌ and فِكَاكٌ.
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أَفَكُّ
A person whose jaw is broken.
A specialized bodily adjective, distinct from أَفَكُّ for a loosened shoulder.
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مُتَفَكِّكَةٌ
Of a mare: sexually receptive and desirous of the stallion, offering no opposition to him.
A specialized Form V feminine participial usage.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic form مُنْفَكِّينَ in 98:1 has several explicitly reported interpretations; these are kept as separate senses rather than collapsed into the contextual gloss alone.
The public headword مُنْفَكّ is the singular active-participle citation form corresponding to the Quranic plural مُنْفَكِّينَ.