Quranic root
حثث
ḥ · th · th
The root has two principal semantic axes: urging or pressing toward an action, and dry, broken, or coarse material.
The first axis extends from incitement and hastening to rapid movement, reciprocal urging, and states of commotion. The second denotes dry fragments, coarse sand, and related unmoistened or separated materials.
- Maqāyīs · row 1298
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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.
حَثِيث
ḥathīth
- Part of speech
- Adjective · adverbial use
- 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.
Rapidly; swiftly.
In the Quranic occurrence, the adjective appears in the accusative and is used adverbially to describe the manner of pursuing or seeking something.
- Mufradāt · row 295
- Lane · entry 13492
Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:54word 19
“rapidly”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 7:54حَثِيثًۭاrapidly
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 21 Classical meanings
حَثَّ
To hasten or hurry someone or an animal onward; to drive it to move quickly.
Transitive; used of people, beasts, horses, and, by extension, pace or journeying.
- Lane · entry 13481
حَثَّ
To incite, excite, urge, or instigate someone toward a thing or action.
Commonly followed by عَلَيْهِ when specifying what someone is urged toward.
- Lane · entry 13481
تَحَاثَّ
To urge, incite, or encourage one another.
A reciprocal construction, including mutual urging toward a shared action.
- Lane · entry 13484
اِحْتَثَّ
To be or become incited, urged, or instigated; also to urge in transitive use.
Attested with both transitive and intransitive usage.
- Lane · entry 13485
حَثْحَثَ
To move or stir something about, put it into commotion, or stir up an affair.
The object may be a physical thing or, figuratively, an affair or matter.
- Lane · entry 13487
حَثْحَثَ
To be in commotion or successive motion; of lightning, to move or flicker in the clouds.
An intransitive use describing continuing or agitated movement.
- Lane · entry 13487
حَثْحَثَ
Of rain, hail, or snow: to appear and pass away without pouring down.
A specialized weather-related use.
- Lane · entry 13487
حَثْحَثَ
To scatter the utensils or furnishings of a house or tent.
A transitive use concerning household or tent equipment.
- Lane · entry 13487
حَثْحَثَ
To sleep.
Attested as an intransitive lexical use.
- Lane · entry 13487
حُثٌّ
Small particles or fragments, especially of straw; anything broken, brayed, or crushed into small particles.
- Lane · entry 13488
حُثٌّ
Coarse sand, especially dry, firm, hard, or rough sand.
- Lane · entry 13488
حُثٌّ
Bread lacking seasoning or condiment.
- Lane · entry 13488
حُثٌّ
Of sawiq, collyrium, or musk: dry or unmixed, not stirred with liquid, or coarsely rather than finely ground.
Applied to these preparations in senses involving lack of mixing, moisture, or fine grinding.
- Lane · entry 13488
حُثٌّ
Dates that do not stick or adhere to one another.
- Lane · entry 13488
حَثَاثٌ
Sleep, especially light or little sleep.
The variant حِثَاثٌ is cross-referenced to this lexical use.
- Lane · entry 13489
حَثَاثٌ
A little collyrium; according to another reported usage, collyrium generally.
A separate reported application of the noun to collyrium.
- Lane · entry 13489
حَثِيثٌ
A person who incites, urges, or instigates.
A substantival use corresponding to the active sense of urging.
- Lane · entry 13492
حَثِيثٌ
A person who has been incited, urged, or instigated.
A substantival use corresponding to the passive result of being urged.
- Lane · entry 13492
حَثِيثٌ
A sharp, energetic person who is quick in handling affairs.
A figurative description of a person whose inner drive makes him or her quick in action.
- Lane · entry 13492
حَثِيثٌ
Light sleep.
- Lane · entry 13492
جَوَادُ المَحَثَّةِ
A horse that runs repeatedly or readily when urged to do so.
A conventional expression describing a horse responsive to urging.
- Lane · entry 13496
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The QAC occurrence is tagged as a noun and appears as حَثِيثًا; the public headword is normalized to the adjective حَثِيث, with its adverbial Quranic use made explicit.