Quranic root
قوع
q · w · ʿ
The principal semantic orientation is spreading or flattening in a place, yielding level, smooth, low ground.
The spatial idea appears in قَاعٌ, a level plain, and in the reported قَوْعٌ, a flat surface for spreading dates. The mating term قَوْعٌ is explicitly treated as belonging to the inverted root قَعْو, while قُواعٌ ‘male rabbit’ is reported as an anomalous usage.
- Maqāyīs · row 3897
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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.
قَاعٌ
qāʿun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 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 level, flat lowland or plain.
A terrain noun for land spread out at a low level and free of prominent elevations. The two supplied Quran occurrences express the level-ground or lowland sense.
- Lane · entry 21175
Selected Quran examples
Quran 20:106word 2
“a level”
Quran 24:39word 5
“in a lowland”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 3 Classical meanings
قَاعٌ
Plain or soft, level land that is low, free of mountains, and produces nothing.
A broader Classical description of the terrain noun; the supplied Quran evidence establishes the level or lowland aspect without independently requiring every listed descriptive property.
- Lane · entry 21175
قَوْعٌ
A flat surface on which dates are spread.
A reported Classical usage associated with the root's flat-surface branch and distinct in vocalization from the Quranic citation form قَاعٌ.
- Maqāyīs · row 3897
قُواعٌ
A male rabbit.
A rare usage reported as anomalous and outside the principal flat-place semantic branch.
- Maqāyīs · row 3897
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The packet contains no unique Mufradat discussion for either Quranic form; the Quran Foundation glosses provide context only.
The reported mating sense of قَوْعٌ is not assigned here because the lexical evidence explicitly derives it from the inverted root قَعْو rather than this root.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
قِيعَةٌ has no headword-specific Lane or Mufradat evidence in the packet; it is therefore merged under قَاعٌ rather than assigned an independent sense.