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مَيْسِر

and [the] games of chance

ও জুয়া (খেলা)

Root letters: ي س رAppears 3 times in the Qur'an#2,032 most frequentNoun (ism)Masculine (mudhakkar)
Learn it in lesson 204

About this word

Noun (ism)Masculine (mudhakkar)Root letters: ي س ر

Singular & plural — as used in the Qur'an

  • Singular (mufrad)وَٱلْمَيْسِرِ ۖ3 times

Forms in the Qur'an

  • وَٱلْمَيْسِرِ ۖand [the] games of chancewal-maysiri · 1 times
  • وَٱلْمَيْسِرُand [the] games of chancewal-maysiru · 1 times
  • وَٱلْمَيْسِرِand gamblingwal-maysiri · 1 times

Words from the same root

More words from the root ي س ر — know one root, recognise many words.

Examples from the Qur'an

O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone alters [to other than Allāh], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful.

Surah 5:90 — Read full ayah

Satan only wants to cause between you animosity and hatred through intoxicants and gambling and to avert you from the remembrance of Allāh and from prayer. So will you not desist?

Surah 5:91 — Read full ayah

They ask you about wine and gambling. Say, "In them is great sin and [yet, some] benefit for people. But their sin is greater than their benefit." And they ask you what they should spend. Say, "The excess [beyond needs]." Thus Allāh makes clear to you the verses [of revelation] that you might give thought

Surah 2:219 — Read full ayah