24 times in the Quran · 2 word forms · rank 366

The Quran root ف ح ش f-ḥ-sh

Words built from the root ف ح ش ([f-ḥ-sh]) appear 24 times in the Quran. The most common is فاحِشَة, “immorality”, which comes 17 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.

Words from this root

Word	Say it	Meaning	Times
فاحِشَة	faaḥisha	immorality · immoralities	17
فَحْشاء	faḥshaa’	immorality · shameful	7

Examples from the Quran

وَالَّذِينَ إِذَا فَعَلُوا فَاحِشَةً أَوْ ظَلَمُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ ذَكَرُوا اللَّهَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُوا لِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَمَن يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَلَمْ يُصِرُّوا عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلُوا وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ ١٣٥

فَاحِشَةً fāḥishatan · immorality

And those who, when they commit an immorality or wrong themselves [by transgression], remember Allāh and seek forgiveness for their sins - and who can forgive sins except Allāh? - and [who] do not persist in what they have done while they know. (Surah Ali 'Imran, 3:135)

وَاللَّاتِي يَأْتِينَ الْفَاحِشَةَ مِن نِّسَائِكُمْ فَاسْتَشْهِدُوا عَلَيْهِنَّ أَرْبَعَةً مِّنكُمْ فَإِن شَهِدُوا فَأَمْسِكُوهُنَّ فِي الْبُيُوتِ حَتَّىٰ يَتَوَفَّاهُنَّ الْمَوْتُ أَوْ يَجْعَلَ اللَّهُ لَهُنَّ سَبِيلًا ١٥

الْفَاحِشَةَ l-fāḥishata · [the] immorality

Those who commit immorality [i.e., unlawful sexual intercourse] of your women - bring against them four [witnesses] from among you. And if they testify, confine them [i.e., the guilty women] to houses until death takes them or Allāh ordains for them [another] way. (Surah An-Nisa, 4:15)

إِنَّمَا يَأْمُرُكُم بِالسُّوءِ وَالْفَحْشَاءِ وَأَن تَقُولُوا عَلَى اللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ١٦٩

وَالْفَحْشَاءِ wal-faḥshāi · and the shameful

He only orders you to evil and immorality and to say about Allāh what you do not know. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:169)

Surahs where it comes most

Each meaning is taken from the word-by-word translation of the verses, so a word can show two meanings from different contexts. Root and base-word data come from the Quranic Arabic Corpus.