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28 times in the Quran · 8 word forms · rank 325
The Quran root ث ق ل th-q-l
Words built from the root ث ق ل ([th-q-l]) appear 28 times in the Quran. The most common is مِثْقال, “weight”, which comes 8 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.
Words from this root
| Word | Say it | Meaning | Times | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| مِثْقال | mithqaal | weight | 8 | |
| ثَقَل | thaqal | burdens · loads | 6 | |
| ثَقِيل | thaqiil | heavy · or heavy | 5 | |
| ثَقُلَتْ | thaqulat | heavy · It lays heavily | 4 | |
| مُثْقَل | muthqal | overburdened · burdened | 2 | |
| أَثْقَلَت | athqalat | she grows heavy | 1 | |
| اثّاقَلْ | aththaaqal | you cling heavily | 1 | |
| مُثْقَلَة | muthqala | heavily laden | 1 |
Examples from the Quran
إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَظْلِمُ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ وَإِن تَكُ حَسَنَةً يُضَاعِفْهَا وَيُؤْتِ مِن لَّدُنْهُ أَجْرًا عَظِيمًا ٤٠
مِثْقَالَ mith'qāla · (as much as) weight
Indeed, Allāh does not do injustice, [even] as much as an atom's weight; while if there is a good deed, He multiplies it and gives from Himself a great reward. (Surah An-Nisa, 4:40)
وَمَا تَكُونُ فِي شَأْنٍ وَمَا تَتْلُو مِنْهُ مِن قُرْآنٍ وَلَا تَعْمَلُونَ مِنْ عَمَلٍ إِلَّا كُنَّا عَلَيْكُمْ شُهُودًا إِذْ تُفِيضُونَ فِيهِ وَمَا يَعْزُبُ عَن رَّبِّكَ مِن مِّثْقَالِ ذَرَّةٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَا فِي السَّمَاءِ وَلَا أَصْغَرَ مِن ذَٰلِكَ وَلَا أَكْبَرَ إِلَّا فِي كِتَابٍ مُّبِينٍ ٦١
مِّثْقَالِ mith'qāli · (the) weight
And, [O Muḥammad], you are not [engaged] in any matter and do not recite any of the Qur’ān and you [people] do not do any deed except that We are witness over you when you are involved in it. And not absent from your Lord is any [part] of an atom's weight within the earth or within the heaven or [anything] smaller than that or greater but that it is in a clear register. (Surah Yunus, 10:61)
وَتَحْمِلُ أَثْقَالَكُمْ إِلَىٰ بَلَدٍ لَّمْ تَكُونُوا بَالِغِيهِ إِلَّا بِشِقِّ الْأَنفُسِ إِنَّ رَبَّكُمْ لَرَءُوفٌ رَّحِيمٌ ٧
أَثْقَالَكُمْ athqālakum · your loads
And they carry your loads to a land you could not have reached except with difficulty to yourselves. Indeed, your Lord is Kind and Merciful. (Surah An-Nahl, 16:7)
وَهُوَ الَّذِي يُرْسِلُ الرِّيَاحَ بُشْرًا بَيْنَ يَدَيْ رَحْمَتِهِ حَتَّىٰ إِذَا أَقَلَّتْ سَحَابًا ثِقَالًا سُقْنَاهُ لِبَلَدٍ مَّيِّتٍ فَأَنزَلْنَا بِهِ الْمَاءَ فَأَخْرَجْنَا بِهِ مِن كُلِّ الثَّمَرَاتِ كَذَٰلِكَ نُخْرِجُ الْمَوْتَىٰ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ ٥٧
ثِقَالًا thiqālan · heavy
And it is He who sends the winds as good tidings before His mercy [i.e., rainfall] until, when they have carried heavy rainclouds, We drive them to a dead land and We send down rain therein and bring forth thereby [some] of all the fruits. Thus will We bring forth the dead; perhaps you may be reminded. (Surah Al-A'raf, 7:57)
وَالْوَزْنُ يَوْمَئِذٍ الْحَقُّ فَمَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَازِينُهُ فَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ ٨
ثَقُلَتْ thaqulat · (will be) heavy
And the weighing [of deeds] that Day will be the truth. So those whose scales are heavy - it is they who will be the successful. (Surah Al-A'raf, 7:8)
أَمْ تَسْأَلُهُمْ أَجْرًا فَهُم مِّن مَّغْرَمٍ مُّثْقَلُونَ ٤٠
مُّثْقَلُونَ muth'qalūna · (are) overburdened
Or do you, [O Muḥammad], ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down? (Surah At-Tur, 52:40)
Surahs where it comes most
- Surah Al-A'raf · 4×
- Surah Az-Zalzalah · 3×
- Surah Al-'Ankabut · 3×
- Surah Saba · 2×
- Surah At-Tawbah · 2×
- Surah An-Nisa · 1×
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.