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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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
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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 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
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.