Quranic root
قنطر
q · n · ṭ · r
The supplied evidence centers on binding, compacting, or making something firm, with a related development toward collecting things into a single aggregate. In property vocabulary, this yields terms for accumulated riches and a large measure or heap.
The lexical range extends from firm interlocking or arched construction to aggregation, accumulated wealth, and a conventional measure of substantial quantity.
- Lane · entry 9037
- Lane · entry 9040
- Lane · entry 9041
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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.
مُقَنْطَرٌ
muqanṭarun
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- 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.
Collected and accumulated into one aggregate; heaped together.
In the supplied Quranic construction, the feminine form qualifies قَنَاطِير and describes riches accumulated into a substantial aggregate.
- Lane · entry 9041
Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:14word 9
“[the] stored up”
قِنْطَار
qinṭār
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
A large quantity or aggregate of property or wealth; a heap or great amount.
The Quranic occurrences use singular and plural forms for substantial or heaped wealth. These occurrences do not establish one fixed numerical weight.
- Lane · entry 9040
Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:14word 8
“and [the] heaps”
Quran 3:75word 7
“with a great amount of wealth”
Quran 4:20word 9
“heap (of gold)”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 3:14وَٱلْقَنَـٰطِيرِand [the] heaps
- 3:14ٱلْمُقَنطَرَةِ[the] stored up
- 3:75بِقِنطَارٍۢwith a great amount of wealth
- 4:20قِنطَارًۭاheap (of gold)
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 6 Classical meanings
قَنْطَرَ
To bind, knit, or compact something and make it firm; in construction, to arch or vault it.
The constructional sense relates firmness to interlocking or arched formation.
- Lane · entry 9037
قَنْطَرَ
To collect a thing into one aggregate; to aggregate it.
- Lane · entry 9037
قَنْطَرَ
To possess a قِنْطَار of property, or to become possessed of a large amount of property.
The verb describes possession measured by, or likened to, a قِنْطَار.
- Lane · entry 9037
قَنْطَرَة
A bridge or arched structure built over water for crossing; by extension, a lofty bridge-like structure.
The term can refer to a built or unbuilt crossing; جِسْر is reported as the more common general term.
- Lane · entry 9039
قِنْطَار
A conventional standard of weight or measure, or a substantial measured quantity with various reported equivalents.
Classical authorities disagree widely about its exact magnitude, assigning values in dinars, dirhams, ritls, uqiyyahs, mithqals, and other units, as well as quantities of gold or silver.
- Lane · entry 9040
مُقَنْطَرٌ
Made up, completed, or constituted as a whole.
This broader Classical usage is distinct from the Quranic description of riches collected into an aggregate.
- Lane · entry 9041
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Classical authorities report substantially divergent numerical definitions for قِنْطَار; the Quranic contexts support a large amount or aggregate of wealth rather than a single fixed value.
The historical Quran citation attached in the Lane discussion of قَنَاطِير مُقَنْطَرَة is not converted into a modern verse location; the example location 3:14:9 is used because it is independently supplied by QAC.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The entry تَقَنْطَرَ is not assigned a public meaning because its supplied definition is only a pointer to قَطَّرَهُ, whose referenced material is absent from the packet.