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Quranic root

نفي

n · f · y

The root expresses removing or stripping something from something else and putting it at a distance.

This orientation extends to driving away or exiling, making things incompatible, treating something as unestablished or nonbinding, and identifying rejected or inferior residue.

  • Maqāyīs · row 4718
  • Lane · entry 32357
  • Lane · entry 32358
  • Lane · entry 32360
  • Lane · entry 32361
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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.

نَفَى

nafā

Part of speech
Verb · Form I
Form
I
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.

  1. To drive away, expel, banish, or exile.

    The supplied Quran occurrence is the passive imperfect: the subject is the person or thing being driven away or exiled.

    • Lane · entry 32357
    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 5:33word 22

    they be exiled

Occurrences in the Quran

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

  • 5:33يُنفَوْا۟they be exiled
View all 1 occurrences

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 5 Classical meanings
  • نَافَى

    To preclude the coexistence of one thing with another; to be inconsistent or incompatible with it.

    Form III construction involving two things that cannot coexist or agree.

    • Lane · entry 32358
  • تَنَافَى

    To be mutually incompatible.

    Form VI reciprocal construction describing two things as incompatible with each other.

    • Lane · entry 32359
  • اِنْتَفَى

    To be negative, unestablished, or not obligatory.

    Used as the contrary of being established or binding.

    • Lane · entry 32360
  • اِنْتَفَى

    To deny or repudiate a thing, such as an accusation.

    The construction اِنْتَفَى مِنْ شَيْءٍ denotes disavowing or denying the thing in question.

    • Lane · entry 32360
  • نُفَايَة

    Refuse or rejected, inferior residue: the bad or worthless portion of a thing.

    It may denote what is rejected for its badness, a small quantity of refuse, remaining or inferior material, including the bad portion of wheat or food.

    • Lane · entry 32361

Cautions

Points that affect how this root should be read.

  • The public headword نَفَى is the normalized Form I perfect citation form; the supplied Quran word is the passive imperfect يُنفَوْا.