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قبر Qabr- dug with the intent of burying someone.Qabr - to be placed into the earth (whether you are buried, burnt, oreaten by a shark) - you will end up in the Earth.)
Similar words;
Marqad
مَّرْقَدِ - ruqood - uncomfortable type of sleep. (see Surah Yaseen 36:52) when you're not in deep sleep and you're annoyed. The things people will see on Judgment Day will be so bad, that the punishments they experienced in the graves will just seem like bad sleep.

Ajdathah
أَجْدَاثِ-jadath [see Yaseen 36:51] - eventhe signs of the grave are gone i.e. Cremation, mass graves, they're not marked to be known as graves.


قَتَرَةٌ -Qatarah -Black smoke thatcomes from fire.

The arabs call a cheap person a Qaatir because when he invites you to his house,
you only see the smoke from his oven but nothing else [they don't give you food].

[mentioned in Abasa 80:41]



قُتِلَ - Qutila - past tense - passive. Literally means 'he was killed' [from Qatl - killing/fighting].
It also is a curse i.e. 'qutila fulan' - i hope so and so person
is killed.





قْهَرْ - Qahar -  have Power over someone and then humiliate them.


فَأَمَّا الْيَتِيمَ فَلَا تَقْهَرْ
Therefore, treat not the orphan with oppression,
[Duha 93:9]



Similar words
;
taGhlabfrom Ghalb
غلب  -, but that is limited to only Overpowering.




اقْتَحَمَ - Iqtahama - اقتحام  'Iqtihaam - jump into and get involved into something without giving it any thought.

A task which involves alot of hard work, and when you get involved - you realise how hard it is.
Like you might carry a burden for a person and realise how hard it really was once you get involved.


فَلَا اقْتَحَمَالْعَقَبَةَ
But he has not broken through the difficult pass. [Balad
90:11]



قَدْ - Qad - Already happened. Absolute certainty.


مُقَدَّس - Muqaddas - a place for declaring the Perfection of Allah ta’ala, a “holy” place.

Taqdees تقديس : to speak about Allah that is appropriate of Allah.



قدر - Qadr - taqdeer - make a projection based on extreme - precise calculation.
Itsantonym/oppositeiskharasa خرس (wild/randomprojection/guess).


قَدْحًا- Qadhan - a violent strike which is really powerful.

Qadhan is used to emphasise that the war horse's hoof strike is very very loud and violent. [Aadiyaat 100:2]




قرب  - Qurb - Closeness.
قريب  - Qareeb - Close.


Antonym
;
بعيد  - Ba'eed - Far.






قُرَيْشٍ -Quraysh-taqarrush -to gather people from many distances.

[mentioned in surah
Quraysh 106:1]


3 Opinions:


1st
: They were a gathering of many dispersed people
by the man al Muj'im - who gathered all the sons if Isma'eel together in Makkah after they had dispersed.

2nd:Qarsh -
A massive beast in the ocean. A whale or octopus that can destroy ships. And it cannot be overpowered except by fire (and it cannot be destroyed by fire because it is in the water - a saying of the Arabs).


QuraYsh is a tasgheer/smallened version
of this big powerful beast.

I.e. They are big and powerful, but they are smaller than it. (i.e.
Hasan is a name to mean beautiful. A small person called Hasan isHusaYn, or Umar and UmaYr (little Umar, 'Abd and UbaYd (little slave),
Qarsh and QuraYsh etc.

This tasgheer/making small can also magnify them.
i.e. We might jokingly call a tall person - short, or a thin person - 'fatty' (fat). etc.


So QuraYsh in tasgheer [smallness] form can actually imply they are powerful andbig. Even though tasgheer/smallness is used in language.

Ibn Abbas
was askesd why are they called Quraysh? He replied; Because the beast in the ocean eats - but it is not eaten. It overpowers, but it cannot be overpowered. And this is the case with Quraysh.

Poetry:
Wa qurayshun hiyya alatee taskunu. Al bahra bi ma summiyat qurayshun qurayshan - the Quraysh is the one who lives in the ocean and becauseof it Quraysh is called Quraysh.



3rd:Qarsh - to earn (qasb)
- they're called that because of their constanttrading and travelling in the lands.




قَارِعَةُ -Qari'ah-(ism Fa'il/noun that does something - active participle).  The Rattler.

Qara'a
قرع  - when two things hit each other violently and make a disturbing noise.If it does not make you scared or startled - it is not a Qari'ah.

It is also used for a tough situation whena loud noise has taken your peace away.


yuqra'ul 'abdu bil 'assaa
-a slave is being hit by a big stick/cane('assaa), and it Disturbs you because the stick is making a loud noisewhen the human is being hit.

When youinsult someone and humiliate someone - it is a qara'a because it startles and disturbs this person.
A car crash can also be a Qari'ah if two cars collide; because it makes a bang sound and it startles/shocks the one who sees it happen.

qara'a al baab
- a Knock on the door - in the middle of the night.So people wake up in the middle of the night, startled, scared, and they don't know who or what is at the door.

So alot of things are happening on Judgment Day, and al Qari'ah is one of the descriptions Allah uses to describe the horror of that Day.



[mentioned in surah
al Qari'ah 101]




قل - Qul - Say [present tense]


قال  - Qaal - Said [past tense]

يَقُولُو -Yaqoola:they say and will say [present and future tense are combined in Arabic]

قيل  - Qeel [passive] - It was said..






قَضْب - Qadba- foods which grow under the ground. So the animals eat what is on top of the ground, and we eat the food grown underground.


[mentioned in Abasa 80:28]




قضى-Qaddaa -fulfilling a responsibiltiy, once it is done, the qaddaa - the responsibility is finished.

[A Judge is called a Qaddi قاضي because he is Responsible for judging between the people.
People also have to pray Qaddaa if they missed a prayer - to fulfill its Responsibility]





قْسِمُ - Qasm - Oath
.

Oath's are used to give Attention to what is being sworn/oathed by, or to elevate and honour that object.

قصت - Qistt - to be Fair/Just, in public and private.

Similar to;

عدل  - 'Adl justice - you do justice, but you do it publically.




قُعُودٌ - Qu'ood - Sit down for a long time.

Similar to;
جلس Jals - to sit down for a shorter time period.



قلب - Qalb - the general word for heart.

It comes from the root [taqallub] which means something that turns around and moves about
up and down constantly.

It is the nature of hearts that they are constantly changing, this is the normal state of our hearts.

When Allah ta’ala refers to emaan [belief] and diseases of the heart, qalb is used.


[mentioned in: surah Qassas 28:10, ]
[similar words; صدر -Sadr, فؤاد -fu'aad]




قَلَىٰ - Qalaa - when you are unhappy with someone - so you don't communicate with them anymore.

مَا وَدَّعَكَ رَبُّكَ وَمَا قَلَىٰ

Your Lord
(O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) has neither (said) goodbyeto you, nor hated(you). [Duha 93:3]


قنط Qanata - to become depressed, hopeless - where you expect nothing good anymore. [mentioned in surah Zumar: 39:53?]

وَقُودِ - Wuqood - Kindle a fire.



قُوَّة - Quwwah - great strength.


قَوْلُ - Qawl - Speech that which is someone elses words, you are just saying them to pass it on.

Similar to;
كلام  - Kalaam - Speech of the Direct source/original person.

قيم - Qaayim - to be upright, standing up straight vertically.
قَيِّمَةٌ -Qayyimah - qaama قام  -keep firm, upright, that stands straight. If something was crooked, it is straightened to upright too.

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