Quranic root

قرطس

q · r · ṭ · s

The supplied evidence centers on قِرْطَاس as a writing material or writing sheet; it does not establish a separate root-level semantic principle.

No independent root-development evidence is supplied.

Forms in the Quran

The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.

qirṭās

Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.

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

Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.

Show 10 Classical meanings

قَرْطَسَ
To hit the target or go directly to the target, said of an archer, an arrow, or a shot.
A verb describing accurate shooting toward the قِرْطَاس, or target.
- Lane · entry 8205
تَقَرْطَسَ
To perish.
- Lane · entry 8206
قِرْطَاس
A writing, written sheet, or book concerning any subject.
This extends the noun from the writing material to the written item itself.
- Lane · entry 8208
قِرْطَاس
A butt or target for shooting, especially a piece of skin or similar skin set up for contestants.
- Lane · entry 8208
قِرْطَاس
A kind of Egyptian fabric.
- Lane · entry 8208
قِرْطَاس
A white or fair girl of tall stature.
- Lane · entry 8208
قِرْطَاس
A camel of the type called آدَم.
- Lane · entry 8208
قِرْطَاس
A young she-camel.
- Lane · entry 8208
دَابَّةٌ قِرْطَاسِيَّةٌ
A white beast of carriage with no admixture of another colour in its whiteness.
Used in the expression دَابَّةٌ قِرْطَاسِيَّةٌ.
- Lane · entry 8209
مُقَرْطِس
An archer, arrow, or shot that hits the target accurately.
A derived participial description of someone or something reaching the shooting target.
- Lane · entry 8210

Points that affect how this root should be read.

No Maqāyīs entry is supplied, so the artifact does not infer an additional root-level semantic development.