Quranic root
قذف
q · dh · f
The root centers on throwing, casting, or projecting something away or toward a target, with force or distance often salient.
The physical image extends to casting abstract things into hearts or against falsehood, uttering conjectures, verbal disparagement, and nouns for projectiles and throwing instruments. The lexical record also develops related ideas of remoteness, rapid movement, ejection, and mountain flanks.
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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.
قَذَفَ
qadhafa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
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- Quran occurrences
- 9 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.
To throw, cast, or project a person or thing away, into a place, or toward a target.
The Quranic physical uses include casting into a place, throwing an object, and being pelted or hurled in the passive. The verb may occur in imperative, perfect, imperfect, active, or passive forms without creating separate lexical senses.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 20:39word 2
“cast him”
Quran 37:8word 6
“are pelted”
To cast an abstract thing into a recipient or upon an opposing object, especially to cast terror into hearts or truth upon falsehood.
This is a figurative projection construction: an abstract content is made to reach or confront a target, as with terror cast into hearts and truth cast upon falsehood.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 21:18word 2
“We hurl”
Quran 33:26word 9
“and cast”
To utter conjectures about what is hidden or not established.
Used in the construction بِالْغَيْبِ for speaking speculatively about the unseen or concealed.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 34:53word 6
“And they utter conjectures”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 20:39ٱقْذِفِيهِcast him
- 20:39فَٱقْذِفِيهِthen cast it
- 20:87فَقَذَفْنَـٰهَاso we threw them
- 21:18نَقْذِفُWe hurl
- 33:26وَقَذَفَand cast
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
قَذَفَ
To revile, reproach, asperse, defame, or give someone a bad name.
A figurative use for verbal disparagement, also expressed as casting something at a person.
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قَذَفَ
To charge a woman with adultery.
The recorded construction applies to charging a chaste, honest, or married woman with adultery.
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قَذَفَهُ بِهِ
To reproach or accuse someone of a matter.
Used with بِهِ to charge a person with the matter represented by the attached pronoun.
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قَذَفَهُ بِهِ
To cause something to reach or strike someone; to afflict someone with it.
Recorded as equivalent to أَصَابَهُ بِهِ, distinct from merely naming or accusing someone.
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قَذَفَ بِالسَّهْمِ
To shoot or propel an arrow.
A conventional missile-projecting construction.
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قُذِفَتْ بِاللَّحْمِ
To become fat and plump.
Recorded in the expression قُذِفَتْ بِاللَّحْمِ, said of a camel and treated in the evidence as a tropical expression.
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قُذُفٌ
Land in which there is no pasture where cattle may freely range.
A nominal description of uncultivable or pastureless land.
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قَذَّافٌ
A catapult or mangonel, an instrument for throwing something a great distance.
A noun for a throwing machine.
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قُذَّافَةٌ
A sling.
The recorded plural is قُذَّافَاتٌ.
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قَذُوفٌ
A town or place that is far away or remote.
A descriptive adjective applied to a distant town or place.
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قَذَفٌ، قَذِيفٌ
Remote or far away, said of a dwelling.
Both قَذَفٌ and قَذِيفٌ are recorded as descriptions of a distant dwelling.
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قِذَافٌ
Speed of travel or rapid progress.
A noun describing swiftness of movement.
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مُتَقَاذِفٌ
Fast-running, said of a horse.
The description evokes a horse that seems to throw itself forward in its running.
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أَقْذَافُ الْجَبَلِ
The sides or outlying portions of a mountain.
The singular is given as قَذَفٌ.
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قَذِيفَةٌ
A thing thrown or projected; a projectile.
A noun for the object cast or hurled.
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قَذَفَ
To vomit or eject what is in the stomach.
A separate Classical use explained through the image of throwing something out.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Lane's historical Quran citations are not converted into modern verse keys; the Quran examples use the independently supplied QAC locations.
The camel-fattening expression is marked as an assumed tropical usage in the supplied lexical evidence.
The remote, swift-movement, mountain-side, projectile, and vomiting branches are recorded as broader Classical or root-level lexical evidence, not as additional Quranic form groups.