Quranic root
فوض
f · w · ḍ
The root centers on referring an affair to another and relying on that party to handle or arbitrate it.
From this principle develop reciprocal arrangements in which parties share, equalize, exchange, mix, or leave matters without a single controlling authority.
- Maqāyīs · row 3673
- Mufradāt · row 1143
- Lane · entry 35221
- Lane · entry 35222
- Lane · entry 35225
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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.
فَوَّضَ
fawwaḍa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
- II
- 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.
To entrust or commit an affair to another, referring its handling or arbitration to that party.
Constructed with إِلَى and an object such as أَمْر; in the Quranic usage, the speaker refers his case to God as arbiter while abstaining from contention.
- Lane · entry 35221
- Mufradāt · row 1143
Selected Quran examples
Quran 40:44word 5
“and I entrust”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 40:44وَأُفَوِّضُand I entrust
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 16 Classical meanings
تَفْوِيضٌ
Giving a woman in marriage without stipulating a dowry.
A legal marriage construction; it may also involve waiving the dowry requirement or leaving the dowry matter without specification.
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مُفَوِّضَةٌ
A woman whose marriage is contracted without a stipulated dowry.
The term also covers a woman who waives the dowry ordinance, or, in variant usage, one whose guardian contracts the marriage without naming a dowry or leaves the dowry matter to her.
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مُفَاضَةٌ
Comprehensive copartnership in which everything possessed by the partners is held in common.
Used especially in the legal expression شِرْكَةُ المُفَاوَضَةِ, contrasted with partnership limited to a particular asset or affair.
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مُفَاضَةٌ
Mutual conferring in which each party receives what the others have to communicate and contributes what he possesses.
Applied particularly to learned discussion and exchange of knowledge.
- Lane · entry 35222
مُفَاضَةٌ
Commingling in social intercourse.
- Lane · entry 35222
مُفَاضَةٌ
Being coequal.
- Lane · entry 35222
مُفَاضَةٌ
Competing with another in an affair by matching or emulating what the other does.
Constructed with فِي for the affair or matter in which the parties compete.
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تَفَاوَضَ
For partners to share property altogether and stand as equals in the partnership.
Used of two partners whose property is jointly held in its entirety.
- Lane · entry 35223
تَفَاوَضَ
To confer or converse mutually, exchanging what each party has to communicate.
With الحديث, it can mean to enter upon or engage in discourse.
- Lane · entry 35223
تَفَاوَضَ
To mix together in social intercourse.
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تَفَاوَضَ
To compete with one another in an affair, each doing as the others do.
The competition is expressed with فِي for the relevant affair or matter.
- Lane · entry 35223
فَوْضَةٌ
A substantive denoting comprehensive copartnership.
Used as a noun related to مُفَاوَضَةٌ.
- Lane · entry 35224
فَوْضَى
A group whose members are undifferentiated equals, mixed or dispersed, and have no chief or commander.
May describe people or other groups in a condition of disorderly separation or mixture.
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فَوْضَى
Common or promiscuous property held among a group without division.
The expression may indicate that members freely take or use the common goods.
- Lane · entry 35225
فَوْضَى
A collective affair left in a mixed or unregulated state.
In أَمْرُهُمْ فَوْضَى, members freely use one another’s possessions or act without consulting or obtaining one another’s authorization.
- Lane · entry 35225
تَفْوَاضَةٌ
The remaining signs or residue of life in a person.
Used in the expression رَأَيْتُ التَّفْوَاضَةَ لِفُلَانٍ or بِفُلَانٍ.
- Lane · entry 35228
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic occurrence is an imperfect active Form II form; the public headword is normalized to the standard perfect citation form فَوَّضَ.