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60 times in the Quran · 8 word forms · rank 181
The Quran root ف ر ي f-r-y
Words built from the root ف ر ي ([f-r-y]) appear 60 times in the Quran. The most common is افْتَرَى, “invent”, which comes 50 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.
Words from this root
| Word | Say it | Meaning | Times | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| افْتَرَى | aftaraa | invent · invents | 50 | |
| افْتِراء | aftiraa’ | invention · inventing | 2 | |
| مُفْتَري | muftary | ones who invent · inventors | 2 | |
| مُفْتَرًى | muftarana | invented | 2 | |
| مُفْتَرَيَة | muftaraya | fabricated | 1 | |
| مُفْتَر | muftar | inventor | 1 | |
| فَرِيّ | fariyy | amazing thing | 1 | |
| يَفْتَرِي | yaftarii | they invent it | 1 |
Examples from the Quran
ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ قَالُوا لَن تَمَسَّنَا النَّارُ إِلَّا أَيَّامًا مَّعْدُودَاتٍ وَغَرَّهُمْ فِي دِينِهِم مَّا كَانُوا يَفْتَرُونَ ٢٤
يَفْتَرُونَ yaftarūna · inventing
That is because they say, "Never will the Fire touch us except for [a few] numbered days," and [because] they were deluded in their religion by what they were inventing. (Surah Ali 'Imran, 3:24)
فَمَنِ افْتَرَىٰ عَلَى اللَّهِ الْكَذِبَ مِن بَعْدِ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الظَّالِمُونَ ٩٤
افْتَرَىٰ if'tarā · fabricates
And whoever invents about Allāh untruth after that - then those are [truly] the wrongdoers. (Surah Ali 'Imran, 3:94)
وَقَالُوا هَٰذِهِ أَنْعَامٌ وَحَرْثٌ حِجْرٌ لَّا يَطْعَمُهَا إِلَّا مَن نَّشَاءُ بِزَعْمِهِمْ وَأَنْعَامٌ حُرِّمَتْ ظُهُورُهَا وَأَنْعَامٌ لَّا يَذْكُرُونَ اسْمَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهَا افْتِرَاءً عَلَيْهِ سَيَجْزِيهِم بِمَا كَانُوا يَفْتَرُونَ ١٣٨
افْتِرَاءً if'tirāan · (as) an invention
And they say, "These animals and crops are forbidden; no one may eat from them except whom we will," by their claim. And there are those [camels] whose backs are forbidden [by them] and those upon which the name of Allāh is not mentioned - [all of this] an invention of untruth about Him. He will punish them for what they were inventing. (Surah Al-An'am, 6:138)
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُوا الْعِجْلَ سَيَنَالُهُمْ غَضَبٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِمْ وَذِلَّةٌ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَكَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُفْتَرِينَ ١٥٢
الْمُفْتَرِينَ l-muf'tarīna · the ones who invent (falsehood)
Indeed, those who took the calf [for worship] will obtain anger from their Lord and humiliation in the life of this world, and thus do We recompense the inventors [of falsehood]. (Surah Al-A'raf, 7:152)
فَلَمَّا جَاءَهُم مُّوسَىٰ بِآيَاتِنَا بَيِّنَاتٍ قَالُوا مَا هَٰذَا إِلَّا سِحْرٌ مُّفْتَرًى وَمَا سَمِعْنَا بِهَٰذَا فِي آبَائِنَا الْأَوَّلِينَ ٣٦
مُّفْتَرًى muf'taran · invented
But when Moses came to them with Our signs as clear evidences, they said, "This is not except invented magic, and we have not heard of this [religion] among our forefathers." (Surah Al-Qasas, 28:36)
أَمْ يَقُولُونَ افْتَرَاهُ قُلْ فَأْتُوا بِعَشْرِ سُوَرٍ مِّثْلِهِ مُفْتَرَيَاتٍ وَادْعُوا مَنِ اسْتَطَعْتُم مِّن دُونِ اللَّهِ إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ ١٣
مُفْتَرَيَاتٍ muf'tarayātin · fabricated
Or do they say, "He invented it"? Say, "Then bring ten sūrahs like it that have been invented and call upon [for assistance] whomever you can besides Allāh, if you should be truthful." (Surah Hud, 11:13)
Surahs where it comes most
- Surah Al-An'am · 9×
- Surah Yunus · 7×
- Surah Hud · 7×
- Surah An-Nahl · 6×
- Surah Al-A'raf · 4×
- Surah Al-Ahqaf · 3×
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.