Quranic root
طرح
ṭ · r · ḥ
The root centers on casting, throwing, or putting something away.
The physical act of casting extends to removal, distance, rejection, and the idea of projecting or reaching far; related derived usages describe distant places, long-reaching objects, and figurative dismissal.
- Maqāyīs · row 3012
- Mufradāt · row 891
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
طَرَحَ
ṭaraḥa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
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- 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 cast, throw, or fling away.
The direct object is cast away or put out of one's presence; the usage may imply treating it as unwanted or of little account.
- Lane · entry 11138
- Mufradāt · row 891
Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:9word 4
“cast him”
To cast off, reject, or renounce something.
Used in an extended construction for rejecting or renouncing a covenant; this is a constructional Quran-attested interpretation rather than an additional QAC occurrence in the supplied data.
- Lane · entry 11138
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 12:9ٱطْرَحُوهُcast him
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 26 Classical meanings
طَرَحَهُ
To remove, put at a distance, drive away, or dismiss.
Includes figurative uses of dismissing discourse, leaving something alone, or driving someone to a remote region.
- Lane · entry 11138
طَرَحَهُ
To put or propose a question to someone.
A figurative construction in which a question is presented as though thrown to the addressee; the usage is reported as possibly post-classical.
- Lane · entry 11138
طَرِحَ
To be or become evil in disposition.
Applied to a person.
- Lane · entry 11138
طَرِحَ
To enjoy or lead a life of ample ease and comfort.
- Lane · entry 11138
طَرَّحَ
To make something long or high, especially a building.
The intensified Form II verb may indicate making a building very long or both long and high.
- Lane · entry 11139
طَرَّحَ
Of a horse, to take long or wide steps while running.
A Form II usage describing the manner of a horse's running.
- Lane · entry 11139
مُطَارَحَةُ الكَلَامِ
The bandying of words; a colloquy or discussion with another.
The expression is also used of exchanging songs or singing; the usage is described as figurative or conventional.
- Lane · entry 11140
أَطْرِح
Look!
A rare Form IV imperative usage linked in the lexical discussion with far-seeing or cast-related expressions.
- Lane · entry 11141
تَطَرَّحَ
To put on a طَرْحَة garment.
A post-classical usage.
- Lane · entry 11142
تَطَارَحُوا
To bandy or propose questions to one another.
Reciprocal Form VI usage.
- Lane · entry 11143
طِرْحٌ
A thing cast or thrown away and not wanted.
A nominal designation for something treated as unwanted or neglected.
- Lane · entry 11146
طِرْحٌ
A leopard.
A rare lexical usage with the plural طُرُوحٌ.
- Lane · entry 11146
طَرَحٌ
Distance or remoteness.
A noun denoting being far away.
- Lane · entry 11147
طَرْحَةٌ
A طيلسان, a type of wrap or outer garment.
The entry notes that this garment term was not known to the Arabs; later usage applies it to a style of head-veil.
- Lane · entry 11148
طَرُوحٌ
Far-extending, distant, or reaching a great distance.
Applied to places, dwellings, journey stages, journeys, and distant objects; of a palm, it denotes long racemes or an upper part far from the base, and of a journey it may also imply hardship.
- Lane · entry 11151
طَرُوحٌ
Of a bow, forcefully propelling an arrow far.
Describes a bow with strong or long-reaching projection.
- Lane · entry 11151
طَرُوحٌ
A male that impregnates through the far-reaching effect of its emission.
Applied to a man in intercourse and to a stallion whose semen reaches far into the womb.
- Lane · entry 11151
طَرُوحٌ
Casting people into dangerous or perilous situations.
Applied figuratively to time, calamity, or accidents that cast people into positions of danger.
- Lane · entry 11151
إِطْرِيحٌ
Long or tall, and leaning to one side; especially a camel's hump.
Used in the expression سَنَامٌ إِطْرِيحٌ.
- Lane · entry 11156
أُطْرُوحَةٌ
A question put or proposed for consideration.
The noun preserves the figurative idea of throwing a question to someone.
- Lane · entry 11157
الأَطَارِيحَ
A proud, self-conceited manner of walking with the arms moving up and down.
Used in the expression فُلَانٌ يُلْقِي الأَطَارِيحَ.
- Lane · entry 11158
مَطْرَحٌ
A place where or into which a thing or person is cast or made to be.
Figuratively, it denotes a state or condition in which someone has been placed.
- Lane · entry 11159
مِطْرَحٌ
A spread or cloth, including a horse-cloth or mattress.
Defined as equivalent or similar to مِفْرَشٌ; later usage includes a cloth laid under or over an animal and a mattress.
- Lane · entry 11160
مِطْرَحٌ
Far-reaching or sending something far.
Applied to a stallion whose semen travels far, an eye that sees far, and a long spear; applied to camels, it can mean swift.
- Lane · entry 11160
مُطَّرَحٌ
Rejected and disregarded; said of a saying to which no regard is paid.
A figurative passive-participial usage.
- Lane · entry 11161
مُتَطَرِّحًا
Walking or going in a slack, languid, or repeatedly stumbling manner.
Describes someone fatigued, weary, weak, or seemingly throwing himself down as he walks.
- Lane · entry 11162
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The rejection or renunciation sense is supported by Lane's Quran-related construction, but no modern verse location is assigned because the supplied QAC occurrence list contains only 12:9.