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Question

Could you please give us an example from the Qur'an of a word that we could identify as a foreign word because of the absence of one of the letters of fluency (ath-thallaaqa)?

Answer  

  is defined as those words of four and five letter roots that do not have any of the letters  .                                                                                 

in the word.  If there is a four or five letter root word without one of these letters, we know the word is then not of Arabic origin, even if the word is in the Qur’an. 

Examples of this are in: and