Quran glossary · draft

طفف

shortchange

To give others less than the full measure or weight owed.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: طفف

Lemmas: مطفف

Forms: مُطَفِّفِينَ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

83:1

وَيْلٌ لِّلْمُطَفِّفِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

The sole form II active participle heads a warning whose next two verses define the conduct: taking full measure when receiving and causing loss when measuring or weighing for others. The agentive plural is rendered compositionally from that explicit sequence.