# Kaf-Te-Ra — قتر (qtr)

> Occurs in 5 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** to be stingy, tight-fisted, niggardly, have scantily, be barely sufficient (sustenance), give bare sustenance. qatarun & qataratun - dust, gloom (of sorrow), darkness, stinginess. qaturun - niggardly. muqtirun - to be in reduced circumstances, straitened.
- **Derived forms:** قَتَر (1) · قَتَرَة (1) · قَتُور (1) · مُقْتِر (1) · يَقْتُرُ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 2. Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 236

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْمُقْتِرِ — l-muq'tiri · "the poor"
  - **Grammar:** noun · pattern of if'al · active · masculine · genitive case

لَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ اِنْ طَلَّقْتُمُ النِّسَٓاءَ مَا لَمْ تَمَسُّوهُنَّ اَوْ تَفْرِضُوا لَهُنَّ فَر۪يضَةًۚ وَمَتِّعُوهُنَّۚ عَلَى الْمُوسِعِ قَدَرُهُ وَعَلَى الْمُقْتِرِ قَدَرُهُۚ مَتَـاعاً بِالْمَعْرُوفِۚ حَقاًّ عَلَى الْمُحْسِن۪ينَ

La junaha AAalaykum in tallaqtumuannisaa ma lam tamassoohunna aw tafridoolahunna fareedatan wamattiAAoohunna AAalaalmoosiAAi qadaruhu waAAala almuqtiri qadaruhu mataAAanbilmaAAroofi haqqan AAala almuhsineen

You do no wrong if you divorce women when you have neither touched them nor appointed for them an obligation. But make them a gift: the wealthy according to his means, and the straitened according to his means; a provision according to what is fitting is binding upon the doers of good.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-baqarah/verse-236.md_

### 10. Surah Yunus, Verse 26

- **Form in this verse:** قَتَرٌۭ — qatarun · "dust"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case · indefinite

لِلَّذ۪ينَ اَحْسَنُوا الْحُسْنٰى وَزِيَادَةٌۜ وَلَا يَرْهَقُ وُجُوهَهُمْ قَتَرٌ وَلَا ذِلَّةٌۜ اُو۬لٰٓئِكَ اَصْحَابُ الْجَنَّةِۚ هُمْ ف۪يهَا خَالِدُونَ

Lillatheena ahsanoo alhusnawaziyadatun wala yarhaqu wujoohahum qatarun walathillatun ola-ika as-habu aljannatihum feeha khalidoon

For those who do good is the best and more; and there will cover their faces neither dust nor disgrace. Those are the companions of the Garden; therein they abide eternally.

_https://quran.so/surah-yunus/verse-26.md_

### 17. Surah Al-Isra, Verse 100

- **Form in this verse:** قَتُورًۭا — qatūran · "stingy"
  - **Grammar:** adjective · masculine, singular · accusative case · indefinite

قُلْ لَوْ اَنْتُمْ تَمْلِكُونَ خَزَٓائِنَ رَحْمَةِ رَبّ۪ٓي اِذاً لَاَمْسَكْتُمْ خَشْيَةَ الْاِنْفَاقِۜ وَكَانَ الْاِنْسَانُ قَتُوراً۟

Qul law antum tamlikoona khaza-inarahmati rabbee ithan laamsaktum khashyata al-infaqiwakana al-insanu qatoora

Say thou: “If you possessed the treasuries of the mercy of my Lord, then would you hold them back for fear of spending”; and man is miserly.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-isra/verse-100.md_

### 25. Surah Al-Furqan, Verse 67

- **Form in this verse:** يَقْتُرُوا۟ — yaqturū · "and are not stingy"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, masculine, plural · present tense

وَالَّذ۪ينَ اِذَٓا اَنْفَقُوا لَمْ يُسْرِفُوا وَلَمْ يَقْتُرُوا وَكَانَ بَيْنَ ذٰلِكَ قَوَاماً

Wallatheena ithaanfaqoo lam yusrifoo walam yaqturoo wakana bayna thalikaqawama

And who, when they spend, are neither extravagant nor miserly; — and there is a place in-between —

_https://quran.so/surah-al-furqan/verse-67.md_

### 80. Surah 'Abasa, Verse 41

- **Form in this verse:** قَتَرَةٌ — qataratun · "darkness"
  - **Grammar:** noun · feminine · nominative case · indefinite

تَرْهَقُهَا قَتَرَةٌۜ

Tarhaquha qatara

Blackness will cover them;

_https://quran.so/surah-abasa/verse-41.md_

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