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Quranic root

نفذ

n · f · dh

A forward movement that passes through a barrier or proceeds effectively through a matter.

The root develops from physical penetration and passage to traversal, reach, access, effective action, execution, and means of egress. Its Quranic Form I use concerns passing beyond encompassing regions or limits.

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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.

نَفَذَ

nafadha

Part of speech
Verb · Form I
Form
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Quran occurrences
3 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.

  1. To pass through or beyond a confining boundary; to penetrate past its limits.

    In 55:33, used of attempting or being unable to pass beyond the regions of the heavens and the earth, in the constructions فَانْفُذُوا and لَا تَنْفُذُونَ.

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    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 55:33word 7

    pass beyond

    Quran 55:33word 12

    then pass

    Quran 55:33word 14

    you (can) pass

Occurrences in the Quran

Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.

  • 55:33تَنفُذُوا۟pass beyond
  • 55:33فَٱنفُذُوا۟ ۚthen pass
  • 55:33تَنفُذُونَyou (can) pass
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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 32 Classical meanings
  • نَفَذَ

    To pass through a thing and emerge clear of it; to penetrate from one side to the other.

    Used of physical penetration, including an arrow piercing an animal or a wound passing through. The verbal nouns نَفَاذٌ and نُفُوذٌ denote this passage or penetration.

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  • نَفَذَ

    To depart, pass away from a place, or go one's way.

    Attested in constructions meaning to go from one's position or proceed along one's way.

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  • نَفَذَ

    To pass through a group of people and leave them behind.

    Used with a people as the object of passage.

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  • نَفَذَ

    Of a road or abode, to be open, passable, or communicating with a road.

    Used of a thoroughfare or of an abode that opens onto and communicates with a road.

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  • نَفَذَ

    Of sight, to reach, extend beyond, or penetrate among those seen.

    The construction with sight may mean that it reaches beyond a group, extends over all of them, or penetrates into their midst.

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  • نَفَذَ

    Of judgment, to be penetrating or perceptive.

    Used of a judgment characterized by insight and penetration.

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  • نَفَذَ

    To act or proceed in an affair with penetrative energy, sharpness, vigor, and effectiveness.

    Used with فِي الأَمْرِ and similar constructions for effective progress in an affair.

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  • نَفَذَ

    Of a letter or messenger, to reach or arrive at a person.

    Used of a written communication or messenger passing to its intended recipient.

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  • نَفَذَ

    Of a command or saying, to take effect and be carried out.

    Used when an order or statement becomes effective, is executed, or is obeyed.

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  • نَفَذَ

    Of emancipation, a covenant, contract, sale, or similar act, to take effect or become operative.

    A conventional extension from irreversible passage; used of a legal or transactional act being executed or given effect.

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  • نَفَذَ

    To judge between parties and make the resulting command or decision effective.

    In the construction يَنْفُذُ بَيْنَنَا, it denotes adjudicating between the parties and executing the decision.

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  • نَفَاذٌ

    Ability, efficacy, or effective power in affairs.

    Used of a person's capacity to carry matters through and execute them.

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  • نَفَّذَ

    To execute or carry out an order or affair.

    Form II is causative/intensive in relation to making an order effective; its verbal noun is تَنْفِيذٌ.

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  • نَافَذَ

    To bring someone before a judge or cite him before a judge.

    Used in the reciprocal legal construction in which one party brings a case before a judge and the other may do likewise.

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  • أَنْفَذَ

    To make an arrow pierce through an animal and emerge from it.

    Used with the arrow as object, including the construction أَنْفَذْتُ فِيهِ السَّهْمَ, to cause it to penetrate or pass through.

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  • أَنْفَذَ

    To cause an order, affair, covenant, or contract to take effect; to execute or accomplish it.

    Used causatively of bringing a command or undertaking into effect, including carrying out an affair or covenant.

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  • أَنْفَذَ

    To send or transmit a letter or messenger so that it reaches its recipient.

    Used with a letter or messenger as object.

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  • أَنْفَذَ

    To enter among or penetrate into a group of people.

    Used of becoming among the people or moving through their midst.

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  • تَنَافَذَ

    For opposing parties to come before a judge and refer their case to him for judgment.

    A reciprocal legal construction involving the parties' pleadings or allegations before the judge.

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  • نَفَذٌ

    A wound or piercing having a passage through to the other side.

    The noun may denote the passage itself or the opening made by a piercing wound.

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  • نَفَذٌ

    A place, way, or means of exit, escape, or safety.

    Used figuratively for a means of escape from the consequences of an act or statement.

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  • نَفَذٌ

    The making of a command or order effective; execution or performance of it.

    Used substantivally in the sense of إِنْفَاذٌ, including accomplishing what a writing or command contains.

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  • نَافِذٌ

    Piercing or passing through from one side to the other.

    Of an arrow or wound, describes penetration through an animal or through both sides of the body.

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  • نَافِذٌ

    Of a road, open, passable, and serving as a thoroughfare.

    Used of a road that is not stopped up and along which people may pass.

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  • نَافِذٌ

    An opening or perforation through which sensation of joy or grief is conveyed to the mind.

    In the plural نَوَافِذُ, refers technically to bodily openings such as the ears, nostrils, mouth, and anus.

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  • نَافِذٌ

    Penetrating, incisive, energetic, vigorous, and effective in one's affairs.

    Used as an epithet of a person, especially in the construction نَافِذٌ فِي أَمْرِهِ or فِي الأُمُورِ.

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  • نَافِذٌ

    Of a command or order, effectual, operative, executed, or obeyed.

    Used predicatively of an order that has taken effect or is being carried out.

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  • نَافِذٌ

    A particular double-sided feather or curl of hair in a horse's coat.

    A specialized equine term for a marking occurring on both sides.

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  • نَفِيذٌ

    Of an affair, arranged or made easy.

    An attributive description of an affair that has been put in order or facilitated.

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  • مَنْفَذٌ

    A place of passage, outlet, or route by which people or things pass through.

    Used of a passage or thoroughfare, including a road that provides access to a destination.

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  • مَنْفِذٌ

    A place through which a thing passes; a thoroughfare or place of egress.

    A place noun, with plural مَنَافِذُ.

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  • مُنْتَفَذٌ

    Ample room, scope, or liberty to act; a means of escape.

    Used of available space or latitude for action and, by extension, an available way out.

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Cautions

Points that affect how this root should be read.

  • The Quranic form is normalized to the Form I perfect citation headword نَفَذَ, although the three QAC occurrences are imperfect or imperative forms in 55:33.

  • The Form I Quranic usage is passage beyond encompassing regions; the physical, figurative, and derived-form extensions listed separately are broader Classical Arabic evidence.