Meaning: they invent · Also translated as: invents, invent, inventing, fabricates
Forms in the Quran
يَفْتَرُونَ×17
ٱفْتَرَىٰ×15
ٱفْتَرَىٰهُ×7
يُفْتَرَىٰ×3
تَفْتَرُونَ×2
ٱفْتَرَيْتُهُۥ×2
ٱفْتَرَيْنَا×1
لِّتَفْتَرُوا۟×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
الفري: قطع الجلد للخرز والإصلاح، والإفراء للإفساد، والافتراء فيهما، وفي الإفساد أكثر، وكذلك استعمل في القرآن في الكذب والشرك والظلم. نحو: ومن يشرك بالله فقد افترى إثما عظيما
قوله تعالى: ﴿لقد جئت شيئا فريا﴾] مريم:27 [أي عظيما، وقيل: عجيبا، وقيل: مصنوعا مختلفا، ومعناها متقارب. وفي الحديث لما وصف عمر فقال: "لم أر عبقريا يفري فريه. وأصل الفري قطع الجلد للخرز، قال زهير بن أبي سلمى:] من الكامل [
Or do they say,
"He has forged it"?
Nay, it is the Truth
From thy Lord, that thou
Mayest admonish a people
To whom no warner
Has come before thee:
In order that they
May receive guidance.
"Has he invented a falsehood
Against God, or has
A spirit (seized) him?"—
Nay, it is those who
Believe not in the Hereafter,
That are in (real) Penalty,
And in farthest Error.
What! Do they say,
"He has forged a falsehood
Against God"? But if God
Willed, He could seal up
Thy heart. And God
Blots out Vanity, and proves
The Truth by His Words.
For He knows well
The secrets of all hearts.
Or do they say,
"He has forged it"?
Say: "Had I forged it,
Then can ye obtain
No single (blessing) for me
From God. He knows best
Of that whereof ye talk
(So glibly)! Enough is He
For a witness between me
And you! And He is
Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
Why then was no help
Forthcoming to them from those
Whom they worshipped as gods,
Besides God, as a means
Of access (to God)? Nay,
They left them in the lurch:
But that was their
Falsehood and their invention.