# Dad-Ye-Fe — ضيف (Dyf)

> Occurs in 6 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/Dyf

- **Meaning:** Inclined, approached, drew near to setting (said of the sun). Menstruation (said of a woman). Become a guest, refuge of someone. Become correlative to something. Correlation, or reciprocal correlation, so that one cannot be conceived in the mind without the other. Beign collected, joined, added together.
- **Derived forms:** ضَيْف (5) · يُضَيِّفُ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 11. Surah Hud, Verse 78

- **Form in this verse:** ضَيْفِىٓ ۖ — ḍayfī · "my guests"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

وَجَٓاءَهُ قَوْمُهُ يُهْرَعُونَ اِلَيْهِ وَمِنْ قَبْلُ كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ السَّيِّـَٔاتِۜ قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ هٰٓؤُ۬لَٓاءِ بَنَات۪ي هُنَّ اَطْهَرُ لَكُمْ فَاتَّقُوا اللّٰهَ وَلَا تُخْزُونِ ف۪ي ضَيْف۪يۜ اَلَيْسَ مِنْكُمْ رَجُلٌ رَش۪يدٌ

Wajaahu qawmuhu yuhraAAoona ilayhiwamin qablu kanoo yaAAmaloona assayyi-ati qalaya qawmi haola-i banatee hunna atharulakum fattaqoo Allaha wala tukhzooni fee dayfeealaysa minkum rajulun rasheed

And his people came to him, hastening towards him; and before had they been doing evil deeds. He said: “O my people: these are my daughters; they are purer for you. So be in prudent fear of God, and disgrace me not concerning my guests. Is then there not among you a right-minded man?”

_https://quran.so/surah-hud/verse-78.md_

### 15. Surah Al-Hijr, Verse 51

- **Form in this verse:** ضَيْفِ — ḍayfi · "(the) guests"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

وَنَبِّئْهُمْ عَنْ ضَيْفِ اِبْرٰه۪يمَۢ

Wanabbi/hum AAan dayfi ibraheem

And inform thou them of the guests of Abraham,

_https://quran.so/surah-al-hijr/verse-51.md_

### 15. Surah Al-Hijr, Verse 68

- **Form in this verse:** ضَيْفِى — ḍayfī · "(are) my guests"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case

قَالَ اِنَّ هٰٓؤُ۬لَٓاءِ ضَيْف۪ي فَلَا تَفْضَحُونِۙ

Qala inna haola-i dayfeefala tafdahoon

He said: “They are my guests, so put me not to shame;

_https://quran.so/surah-al-hijr/verse-68.md_

### 18. Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 77

- **Form in this verse:** يُضَيِّفُوهُمَا — yuḍayyifūhumā · "offer them hospitality"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of tef'il · 3rd person, masculine, plural · present tense

فَانْطَلَقَا۠ حَتّٰٓى اِذَٓا اَتَيَٓا اَهْلَ قَرْيَةٍۨ اسْتَطْعَمَٓا اَهْلَهَا فَاَبَوْا اَنْ يُضَيِّفُوهُمَا فَوَجَدَا ف۪يهَا جِدَاراً يُر۪يدُ اَنْ يَنْقَضَّ فَاَقَامَهُۜ قَالَ لَوْ شِئْتَ لَتَّخَذْتَ عَلَيْهِ اَجْراً

Fantalaqa hattaitha ataya ahla qaryatin istatAAamaahlaha faabaw an yudayyifoohuma fawajadafeeha jidaran yureedu an yanqadda faaqamahuqala law shi/ta lattakhathta AAalayhi ajra

So they went forth. When they had come to the people of a city, they asked its people for food, but they refused them hospitality. And they found therein a wall upon the point of collapse, and he set it upright. He said: “If thou hadst wished, thou couldst have taken for it recompense.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-kahf/verse-77.md_

### 51. Surah Adh-Dhariyat, Verse 24

- **Form in this verse:** ضَيْفِ — ḍayfi · "(of the) guests"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

هَلْ اَتٰيكَ حَد۪يثُ ضَيْفِ اِبْرٰه۪يمَ الْمُكْرَم۪ينَۢ

Hal ataka hadeethu dayfiibraheema almukrameen

Has there come to thee the story of the honoured guests of Abraham?

_https://quran.so/surah-adh-dhariyat/verse-24.md_

### 54. Surah Al-Qamar, Verse 37

- **Form in this verse:** ضَيْفِهِۦ — ḍayfihi · "his guests"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

وَلَقَدْ رَاوَدُوهُ عَنْ ضَيْفِه۪ فَطَمَسْنَٓا اَعْيُنَهُمْ فَذُوقُوا عَذَاب۪ي وَنُذُرِ

Walaqad rawadoohu AAan dayfihifatamasna aAAyunahum fathooqoo AAathabeewanuthur

And they demanded of him his guests, so We put out their eyes: “Then taste My punishment and My warnings!”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-qamar/verse-37.md_

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