Quranic root
حرك
ḥ · r · k
The root centers on motion as the opposite of stillness.
The basic idea of motion extends to causing movement, agitation and activity, as well as to anatomical points associated with movement and implements used for stirring.
- Maqāyīs · row 1341
- Mufradāt · row 315
- Lane · entry 14206
- Lane · entry 14211
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
حَرَّكَ
ḥarraka
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
- II
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To move something; to set it in motion or agitation.
In the supplied Quranic occurrence, the object is the tongue in the construction لا تُحَرِّكْ بِهِ لِسَانَكَ, referring to bodily movement. The movement is understood as transfer or motion of a body, not as an independently abstract sense.
- Lane · entry 14204
- Mufradāt · row 315
Selected Quran examples
Quran 75:16word 2
“move”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 75:16تُحَرِّكْmove
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 14 Classical meanings
حَرُكَ
To move or be in a state of motion, commotion, or agitation; to shake, wobble, wag, or nod; also to become active.
An intransitive use, contrasted with سَكَنَ ‘to be still’; the activity nuance is also used of lively growth or behavior.
- Lane · entry 14203
حَرَكَ
To strike or injure the withers; in one reported construction, to cut or sever the neck with a sword.
A transitive construction involving the withers or neck.
- Lane · entry 14203
حَرِكَ
To be incapable of sexual intercourse; to be sexually impotent.
A lexical description of incapacity, with the related adjective also applied to a man and to a horse.
- Lane · entry 14203
حَرَّكَ
To urge a camel to go without succeeding in making it go.
A specialized transitive use with a camel as the object.
- Lane · entry 14204
حَرِكٌ
Lively, active, agile, brisk, or sprightly; quick or sharp in intellect.
An adjective covering bodily liveliness and mental quickness; the cited application to a boy is illustrative rather than restrictive.
- Lane · entry 14205
حَرَكَةٌ
Motion, commotion, agitation, or activity.
A noun opposed to stillness or lack of motion.
- Lane · entry 14206
حَرْكَكَةٌ
The head or extremity of either hip or haunch that is next to the ground when sitting.
An anatomical term; its plural forms refer to the corresponding hip extremities.
- Lane · entry 14207
حَرِيكٌ
Incapable of sexual intercourse; sexually impotent.
An adjectival use applied in the cited evidence to a man and to a horse.
- Lane · entry 14210
حَرِيكٌ
Weak in the waist or hip region, walking as though lifting the feet from the ground.
A physical description associated with weakness of the حَرَاكِيك, the hip extremities.
- Lane · entry 14210
حَارِكٌ
The withers or upper part of the withers of a horse, including the region where the shoulder blades meet and where the lowest part of the mane grows.
The term may refer more specifically to the projecting bone or the place grasped by a rider.
- Lane · entry 14211
مَحْرَكٌ
The upper extremity of the neck at the joint with the head.
An anatomical term.
- Lane · entry 14212
مُحَرِّكُ القُلُوبِ
The mover or turner of hearts.
A conventional theological epithet applied to God in a traditional expression; it is not a separate Quranic occurrence in this packet.
- Lane · entry 14213
مِحْرَاكٌ
An implement for stirring a fire; also a style used to stir an ink receptacle.
A concrete instrument of stirring, with separate uses for fire and ink.
- Lane · entry 14214
مُحْتَرِكٌ
One who keeps to or clings to the withers of his camel.
An idiomatic description of a rider’s position on a camel.
- Lane · entry 14215
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The displayed headword حَرَّكَ is the normalized Form II perfect citation form; the supplied Quran token is the active imperfect تُحَرِّكْ.