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و ث ق

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34
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19

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Morphology · Lane's Lexicon · CC BY-SA 3.0

From Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863–1893), under the root وثق. Digitised by the Perseus Project (Tufts); Arabic decoded from Perseus's transliteration.

وَثُقَ It was, or became, firm, stable, fast, or strong; (Msb;) i. q. أُحْكِمَ (S, Mgh, K) [or اِسْتَحْكَمَ , q. v.]. ― -b2- وَثِقَ بِهِ He trusted, or confided, in him. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.)

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أَوْثَقَهُ He made it firm, stable, fast, or strong. (Msb.) ― -b2- He bound, or tied, him, or it, firmly, fast, or strongly, in a bond. (S, K, TK.) See شَدَّهُ .

تَوَثَّقَتِ العُقْدَةُ [The knot became firm, or fast]. (A, in art. ارب .)

اِسْتَوْثَقَ مِنْهُ [He secured himself against him, by a bond or the like, or absolutely:] he took, or received, a bond ( وَثِيقَة ) from him. (S, K.) ― -b2- أُكْتُبُوهُ ا@سْتِيثَاقًا وَدَفْعًا لِلنِّزَاعِ [Write ye it, (namely, the debt,) for the creditor's self-securing, and for preventing contention]. (Jel, ii. 282.) See اِسْتَظْهَرَ . ― -b3- اِسْتَوْثَقَ مِنَ البَابِ He closed the door firmly. (MA.) ― -b4- اِسْتَوْثَقَ مِنْ أُمُورِهِ : see أَعْنَجَ . ― -b5- اِسْتَوْثَقَ مِنَ المَالِ : see استوثج . ― -b6- اِسْتَوْثَقَ بِهِ He confided in him.

ثِقَةٌ Trusty; trustworthy; honest: applied as an epithet alike to a man and a woman, and to two or more men or women: pl. ثِقَاتٌ . (Msb.) ― -b2- بِهِ ثِقَتِى In him is my trust, or confidence. (TA.) ― -b3- لَسْتُ مِنْهُ عَلَى ثِقَةٍ I am not confident, or sure, of it. Occurring in the S, art. ضمر , &c. See an ex. voce شَهْرٌ (last sentence). ― -b4- أَخُو ثِقَةٍ : see أَخٌ . ― -b5- أَخَذَ بِالثِّقَةِ : see أَخَذَ , and see my explanation of اـِحْتَاطَ .

الوَثِيقَةُ فِى الأَمْرِ The doing the thing firmly; and taking the sure method, or way; expl. by اـِحْكَامُهُ والأَخْذُ بِالثَِّقَةِ . (TA.) ― -b2- وَثِيقَةٌ A bond, security, or writing of obligation for the payment of a debt or the like: pl. وَثَايءِقُ . Ex., كِتْبَةُ الوَثَايءِقِ (Bd, ii. 282,) The mode of writing bonds. ― -b3- A pledge. ― -b4- وَثِيقَةٌ i. q. دُرْجَةٌ , q. v.

أَخَذَ الأَمْرَ بِالأَوْثَقِ He set about the affair in the surest, or firmest, manner. (TA.)

مَوْثِقٌ and ↓ مِيثَاقٌ A compact; a contract; a covenant; an agreement; a league; a treaty; an engagement; a bond; an obligation; a promise. (S, K, &c.)

مِيثَاقٌ : see مَوْثِقٌ ; and Jel, &c., in ii. 60 and 87.

مَوْثُوقٌ بِهِ In whom [and in which] trust, or confidence, is placed. (Mgh.)

مُوَثَّقَةُ الخَلْقِ A she-camel rendered firm, strong, or compact, in make. (S.)

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The roots that most often share a verse with و ث ق. Window: the verse. Measure: the number of distinct verses in which both roots occur (of the 29 this root appears in). Ubiquitous roots are excluded so genuinely connected concepts surface — see the method.

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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

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Joseph 12:80Quranic text

فَلَمَّاٱسْتَيْـَٔسُوا۟مِنْهُخَلَصُوا۟نَجِيًّاقَالَكَبِيرُهُمْأَلَمْتَعْلَمُوٓا۟أَنَّأَبَاكُمْقَدْأَخَذَعَلَيْكُممَّوْثِقًامِّنَٱللَّهِوَمِنقَبْلُمَافَرَّطتُمْفِىيُوسُفَفَلَنْأَبْرَحَٱلْأَرْضَحَتَّىٰيَأْذَنَلِىٓأَبِىٓأَوْيَحْكُمَٱللَّهُلِىوَهُوَخَيْرُٱلْحَٰكِمِينَ

Reference 12:80
Muhammad 47:4Quranic text

فَإِذَالَقِيتُمُٱلَّذِينَكَفَرُوا۟فَضَرْبَٱلرِّقَابِحَتَّىٰٓإِذَآأَثْخَنتُمُوهُمْفَشُدُّوا۟ٱلْوَثَاقَفَإِمَّامَنًّۢابَعْدُوَإِمَّافِدَآءًحَتَّىٰتَضَعَٱلْحَرْبُأَوْزَارَهَاذَٰلِكَوَلَوْيَشَآءُٱللَّهُلَٱنتَصَرَمِنْهُمْوَلَٰكِنلِّيَبْلُوَا۟بَعْضَكُمبِبَعْضٍوَٱلَّذِينَقُتِلُوا۟فِىسَبِيلِٱللَّهِفَلَنيُضِلَّأَعْمَٰلَهُمْ

Reference 47:4

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