Arabic word sheet
شَكٌّ
Doubt
- Type
- noun
- Root
- ش ك ك
Meaning and usage
Doubt
The state of someone who wavers between two opposite ideas without either prevailing; the opposite of certainty. Said of what one thinks of a piece of news, a fact, a person.
عِنْدَ سَامِي شَكٌّ فِي صِحَّةِ الْخَبَرِ
Sami has a doubt about the accuracy of the news.
Word family
What the root means ش ك ك
The root carries the idea of wavering between two things without being able to settle. From it come the words for doubting, having doubts and making someone doubt; it is also used, concretely, for threading or fastening one thing into another.
to doubt
شَكَّ
to have doubts
تَشَكَّكَ
to make someone doubt
شَكَّكَ
Synonyms
Opposites
certainty
يَقِينٌ