Quranic root
مقت
m · q · t
The root centers on intense aversion toward what is ugly, foul, or reprehensible.
The semantic range develops from judging something as foul or loathsome to vehement hatred, reciprocal or manifested hatred, and the specialized expression نكاح المقت for a strongly abhorrent marriage practice.
- Maqāyīs · row 4432
- Mufradāt · row 1379
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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.
مَقْت
maqt
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 6 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Intense hatred, abhorrence, or loathing toward what is foul or reprehensible.
The noun may be rendered “hatred” or “hatefulness” according to its construction. The supplied lexical evidence commonly associates it with revulsion toward a foul act, without restricting the object to any particular class of person or thing.
- Mufradāt · row 1379
- Lane · entry 12873
Selected Quran examples
Quran 40:10word 9
“your hatred”
Quran 61:3word 2
“hatred”
In نِكَاحُ المَقْتِ, the abhorrent pre-Islamic marriage of a man to his father’s wife after the father’s divorce or death.
This is a fixed conventional expression. The practice was associated with the strongest hatred and is the practice described as abhorrent in the Quranic discussion of the prohibition of marrying women formerly married to one’s father.
- Lane · entry 12873
- Mufradāt · row 1379
Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:22word 15
“and hateful”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 4:22وَمَقْتًۭاand hateful
- 35:39مَقْتًۭا ۖ(in) hatred
- 40:10لَمَقْتُCertainly Allah's hatred
- 40:10مَّقْتِكُمْyour hatred
- 40:35مَقْتًاhateful
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 7 Classical meanings
مَقَتَ، مَقَّتَ
To hate or loathe someone intensely, especially because of a foul or evil act; in an intransitive use, to be hateful or an object of hatred for such an act.
مَقَّتَ is reported as an intensive counterpart of مَقَتَ. The degree of hatred may be described as extreme.
- Lane · entry 12867
مَاقَتَ، تَمَاقَتَ
To hate one another reciprocally, especially on account of a foul or evil affair.
The forms express mutual hatred; some attestations intensify the degree of hatred.
- Lane · entry 12869
- Lane · entry 12872
مَا أَمْقَتَهُ
An exclamatory expression meaning “How hateful, odious, or hated he is to me!” or “How I hate him!”
The supplied evidence attests the exclamatory construction مَا أَفْعَلَهُ rather than a general causative meaning.
- Lane · entry 12870
تَمَقَّتَ إِلَيْهِ
To show or manifest hatred toward someone.
This construction is presented as the opposite of showing affection or seeking to endear oneself to someone.
- Lane · entry 12871
مَقْتِيّ
A man who contracted نكاح المقت, or the son of such a man.
This is a specialized social designation derived from the named marriage practice.
- Lane · entry 12874
مَقِيت
A reported adjective meaning hateful or hated.
Its attribution to مقت is uncertain in the supplied evidence, since a Quran-focused lexical analysis derives مَقِيت from قوت rather than from this root.
- Lane · entry 12875
- Mufradāt · row 1379
مَمْقُوت
Hated; an object of hatred.
A passive adjectival or participial description of one who is hated.
- Lane · entry 12875
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied evidence conflicts over the root assignment of مَقِيت: Lane lists hateful/hated senses under مقت, while Mufradat derives مَقِيت from قوت; it is retained as a reported Classical item with that qualification.
Lane’s historical Roman-numbered Quran citation for نكاح المقت is not treated as a modern verse location; 4:22 is used because that location is independently supplied by QAC and Mufradat.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The derivational identity of مَقِيت remains unresolved between مقت and قوت in the supplied lexical evidence.