ض ي ف ḍ-y-f
VERBVerb #566Verbs with Derivatives
ضَيَّفَ
ḍayyafa
to host a guest; guests.

Definition

  1. 1يُضَيِّفُوهُمَاyuḍayyifūhumāto host guests6
Total uses in the Qur’an: 6

Qur’anic usage

Sense 1
يُضَيِّفُوهُمَا
⁠فَٱنطَلَقَا حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَآ أَتَيَآ أَهْلَ قَرْيَةٍ ٱسْتَطْعَمَآ أَهْلَهَا فَأَبَوْا۟ أَن يُضَيِّفُوهُمَا فَوَجَدَا فِيهَا جِدَارًۭا يُرِيدُ أَن يَنقَضَّ فَأَقَامَهُۥ قَالَ لَوْ شِئْتَ لَتَّخَذْتَ عَلَيْهِ أَجْرًۭا⁠
So they set out, until when they came to the people of a town, they asked its people for food, but they refused to offer them hospitality. And they found therein a wall about to collapse, so al-Khidh r restored it. [Moses] said, "If you wished, you could have taken for it a payment."
18:77draft glosses: 24 of 24
⁠وَنَبِّئْهُمْ عَن ضَيْفِ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ⁠
And inform them about the guests of Abraham,
15:51draft glosses: 4 of 4

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