Quranic root
طرو
ṭ · r · w
The best-supported semantic orientation is freshness, newness, moisture, and renewed vitality.
The freshness/newness branch extends to making things fresh or fragrant, while the lexicon also records separate movement, praise, bodily, material, and culinary branches.
- Mufradāt · row 895
- Lane · entry 11315
- Lane · entry 11316
- Lane · entry 11317
- Lane · entry 11320
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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.
طَرِيّ
ṭariyy
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Fresh, newly fresh, juicy, or moist.
In Quranic usage, it qualifies flesh or meat, including fish, emphasizing freshness and juiciness or moisture.
- Lane · entry 11320
- Mufradāt · row 895
Selected Quran examples
Quran 16:14word 8
“fresh”
Quran 35:12word 16
“fresh”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 16 Classical meanings
طَرُوَ
To become fresh, juicy, or moist; to become new or renewed.
The new-or-renewed use is specifically reported for the variant طَرِىَ.
- Lane · entry 11315
طَرَا
To come from a distant place, or to come upon people unexpectedly.
It may describe coming forth upon people without their knowledge; it is reported as a dialectal variant of طَرَأَ.
- Lane · entry 11315
طَرَا / طَرِىَ
To advance or come forward; also to pass by, go, or go away.
The movement and departure uses are reported for the forms طَرَا and طَرِىَ.
- Lane · entry 11315
طَرَّى
To make something fresh, juicy, or moist.
The use includes refreshing or moistening a garment.
- Lane · entry 11316
طَرَّى
To make perfume, aloes-wood, or food fragrant by mixing in aromatics.
The construction describes scenting or enhancing the item through admixture.
- Lane · entry 11316
طَرَّى
To plaster or coat a building with clay or mud.
This is reported as a dialectal use of the Form II verb.
- Lane · entry 11316
أَطْرَى
To praise, commend, or eulogize someone.
Reported nuances include praise that renews the person's mention; some authorities extend the term to excessive, unfounded, or falsely exaggerated praise.
- Lane · entry 11317
أَطْرَى
To make honey thicken or coagulate.
- Lane · entry 11317
اِطْرَوْرَى
To suffer indigestion or heaviness of the stomach after eating much, becoming distended in the belly.
The related form اِظْرَوْرَى is also reported.
- Lane · entry 11318
الطَّرَا
Surface material unlike the substance of the earth, such as pebbles, small stones, and dust; in a reported broader use, created things beyond reckoning.
The term occurs in a comparison pairing such surface material with moist earth.
- Lane · entry 11319
طَرِيّ
A stranger.
This is a reported and textually uncertain use; the lexical note suggests that the transmitted form may reflect طَارِئٌ instead.
- Lane · entry 11320
طِرِيَّان
A table used for eating, or a dish or plate.
The transmitted pronunciation varies, and another form with a doubled ر is reported as a dialectal pronunciation.
- Lane · entry 11321
إِطْرِيَة
A food made from softened starch or flour, formed like threads.
The item is identified with regional preparations such as a threadlike starch food.
- Lane · entry 11323
أُطْرُوَان
The first stage and quickness of youth; a state of youthfulness.
It can describe the youthful state or early phase of anything.
- Lane · entry 11324
مُطَرًّى
Aloes-wood or another aromatic preparation rendered fragrant by added perfume, ambergris, or similar substance; also a scented washing preparation.
The term is used for aromatic material and preparations compounded with fragrances.
- Lane · entry 11326
مُطَرًّى
Restored to a good condition of body or property.
This is reported as a figurative or tropical expression.
- Lane · entry 11326
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The reported stranger sense under طَرِيّ is textually uncertain and may reflect طَارِئٌ; it is retained as a cautiously reported Classical use.
Lane's references to the Quranic freshness sense use historical citation notation; the modern examples here rely only on the independently supplied QAC locations 16:14 and 35:12.