muḍāriʿـِيَفْعِلُmaṣdarقَذْفٌ
Core sense — he threw it, he cast it; he accused a woman of adulterygenerated
1.1
He threw stones and other things..
1.1.1he cast it, he cast it forth—قَذَفَ بِهِ
Said of an arrow, a pebble, speech, and anything.
It may sometimes be rendered: he shed it — as, for instance, light into the heart, said of God.
1.1.2He (God) utters truth—يَقْذِفُ بِالحَقِّ
Qur'ān 34:47.
1.1.3he shot the arrow—قَذَفَ بِالسَّهْمِ
1.1.4figurative · مجازhe reproached, reviled, or defamed a chaste woman—قَذَفَ
Also: he reproached or reviled another; synonym شَتَمَ.
قَذَفَهُ is most correctly rendered: he cast an accusation at him; but it is commonly used and explained as having the same meaning as شَتَمَهَ.
1.1.5he charged a chaste, honest, or married woman with adultery—قَذَفَ
The verb here is explained by رَمَى.
1.1.6he aspersed him, he reviled him—قَذَفَهَ بِهِ
Synonym شَتَمَهُ.
1.1.7he reproached him with it, he accused him of it—قَذَفَهَ بِهِ
1.1.8
Also the same as أَصَابَهُ بِهِ.
1.1.9they uttering conjecture, speaking of what was hidden [from them]—وَيَقْذِفُونَ بِالغَيْبِ
Qur'ān 34:52. That is, of what had not become apparent to them.
1.1.10figurative · مجاز — inferredshe became fat and plump—قُذِفَتْ بِاللَّحْمِ
Said of a camel; mentioned under the word اُسْتُعْرِضَت.
1.1.11
قَذَفَتْهُ القَوَاذِفُ: see طَوَّحَتْهُ الطَّوَائِحُ.
Qur’ānic occurrences Form 1 5 shown of 8
21:18
بَلْ نَقْذِفُ بِٱلْحَقِّ عَلَى ٱلْبَـٰطِلِ فَيَدْمَغُهُۥ فَإِذَا هُوَ زَاهِقٌ ۚ وَلَكُمُ ٱلْوَيْلُ مِمَّا تَصِفُونَNay, We hurl the Truth against falsehood, and it knocks out its brain, and behold, falsehood doth perish! Ah! woe be to you for the (false) things ye ascribe (to Us).
33:26
وَأَنزَلَ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَـٰهَرُوهُم مِّنْ أَهْلِ ٱلْكِتَـٰبِ مِن صَيَاصِيهِمْ وَقَذَفَ فِى قُلُوبِهِمُ ٱلرُّعْبَ فَرِيقًا تَقْتُلُونَ وَتَأْسِرُونَ فَرِيقًاAnd those of the People of the Book who aided them - Allah did take them down from their strongholds and cast terror into their hearts. (So that) some ye slew, and some ye made prisoners.
34:48
قُلْ إِنَّ رَبِّى يَقْذِفُ بِٱلْحَقِّ عَلَّـٰمُ ٱلْغُيُوبِSay: "Verily my Lord doth cast the (mantle of) Truth (over His servants),- He that has full knowledge of (all) that is hidden."
34:53
وَقَدْ كَفَرُوا۟ بِهِۦ مِن قَبْلُ ۖ وَيَقْذِفُونَ بِٱلْغَيْبِ مِن مَّكَانٍۭ بَعِيدٍSeeing that they did reject Faith (entirely) before, and that they (continually) cast (slanders) on the unseen from a position far off?
37:8
لَّا يَسَّمَّعُونَ إِلَى ٱلْمَلَإِ ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ وَيُقْذَفُونَ مِن كُلِّ جَانِبٍ(So) they should not strain their ears in the direction of the Exalted Assembly but be cast away from every side,
Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.
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, aor. قَذِفَ , inf. n. قَذْفٌ , He threw stones, &c. (Msb.) قَذَفَ بِهِ He cast it; cast it forth; namely, an arrow, and a pebble, and speech, and anything. (Lth, TA.) It may sometimes be rendered He shed it; as, for instance, light into the heart, said of God. يَقْذِفُ بِالحَقِّ (Kur, xxxiv. 47,) He (God) uttereth truth. (Zj, TA.) قَذَفَ بِالسَّهْمِ He shot the arrow. (Lth, TA.) قَذَفَ He reproached, upbraided, reviled, vilified, defamed, or gave a bad name to, a chaste woman: (MA:) he reproached, upbraided, &c. another; syn. شَتَمَ . (JK.) Used tropically, قَذَفَهُ is most correctly rendered He cast at him an accusation: but it is commonly used and expl. as syn. with شَتَمَهَ q. v. قَذَفَ He charged, reproached, or upbraided, ( رَمَى ,) a chaste, or an honest, or a married, woman, with adultery. (S, Msb, K.) قَذَفَهَ بِهِ He aspersed him, reviled him; syn. شَتَمَهُ . (JK.) قَذَفَهَ بِهِ He reproached, or upbraided, him with it; he accused him of it. (TA.) Also, i. q. أَصَابَهُ بِهِ . (TA.) وَيَقْذِفُونَ بِالغَيْبِ (Kur, xxxiv. 52,) They uttering conjectures, (Zj, TA,) or uttering conjecture; (Bd;) speaking of that which was hidden [from them], (Ksh,) of that which had not become apparent to them. (Bd.) قُذِفَتْ بِاللَّحْمِ She (a camel) became fat and plump. (TA, voce اُسْتُعْرِضَت .) قَذَفَتْهُ القَوَاذِفُ : see طَوَّحَتْهُ الطَّوَائِحُ .