Qur'an Gateway | Examine Root: سرف (srf)

Examining Root: سرف (srf)

Definition:
To eat away, excess, suckle (a child), be ignorant, be unmindful/heedless, exceed the undue bounds or just limits, commit many faults/offences/crimes/sins.
asrafa - to squander one's wealth, act immoderately, be prodigal, extravagant, transgress.
musrif - one who is wasteful.

Total Qur’anic Occurrences: 23

Lemmata Based on This Root: 3

Breakdown of Appearances

Verb: 6

Form
I:	0
II:	0
III:	0
IV:	6
V:	0
VI:	0
VII:	0
VIII:	0
VIX:	0
IX:	0
XI:	0
XII:	0

Gender
Masculine:	6
Feminine:	0
Unassigned:	0

Person
1st:	0
2nd:	2
3rd:	4

Number
Singular:	2
Dual:	0
Plural:	4

Noun: 14

Case
Nominative:	3
Accusative:	6
Genitive:	5

Gender
Masculine:	14
Feminine:	0

Number
Singular:	4
Dual:	0
Plural:	10

Formula
Appears in 44 Root-Based Formulae and lies behind 44 Lemma-Based Formulae
Root Formulae	Root-Plus-Particle-Pronoun Formulae	Lemma Formulae
Length 3: 2 Length 4: 0 Length 5: 0	Length 3: 10 Length 4: 0 Length 5: 0	Length 3: 26 Length 4: 12 Length 5: 6

Glosses for this Root
the transgressors (x7) (is) a transgressor (x2) be extravagant (x2) to the extravagant (x2) transgressing (x2) transgresses (x1) have transgressed (x1)	(are) surely those who commit excesses (x1) (are) not extravagant (x1) transgressing? (x1) he should exceed (x1) and our excesses (x1) extravagantly (x1)

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