Quranic root
بجس
b · j · s
The root denotes opening or splitting a thing so that water emerges, especially through a fissure, vent, or narrow outlet.
The semantic development runs from making a passage for water to water's issuing through that passage. The Form VII usage describes the resulting welling or gushing forth; Quran-focused evidence distinguishes this narrower emergence from the more general use of انفجار.
- Maqāyīs · row 689
- Mufradāt · row 94
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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.
اِنْبَجَسَ
āinbajasa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VII
- Form
- VII
- 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 gush or well forth through an opening; in the Quran, water gushes from the rock and forms springs.
The Quranic usage is associated with emergence through a relatively narrow outlet. The Quran-focused lexical discussion contrasts انبجاس with انفجار, which can also describe emergence from a wider opening.
- Lane · entry 35585
- Mufradāt · row 94
Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:160word 16
“Then gushed forth”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 7:160فَٱنۢبَجَسَتْThen gushed forth
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 5 Classical meanings
بَجَسَ
To open a way, passage, vent, or channel for water and make it flow; said by tropical extension of opening a wound so that it discharges.
Transitive Form I usage; the application to a wound is explicitly described as tropical.
- Lane · entry 35582
اِنْبِجَاسٌ
A cracking or fissuring in a water-skin, stone, or earth through which water issues.
Nominal designation of the fissure or opening that allows water to escape.
- Lane · entry 35585
اِنْبَجَسَ
Of clouds, to pour forth rain; more generally, to pour forth abundantly.
This extends the intransitive outpouring usage to rain-bearing clouds and abundant pouring outside the Quranic rock-and-springs context.
- Lane · entry 35585
تَبَجَّسَ
Of a dish of food, to stream with seasoning or grease because of an abundance of fat.
A conventional figurative or culinary usage describing abundant liquid fat in the dish.
- Lane · entry 35585
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بَجْسٌ
Flowing or pouring water, especially water having an opened vent or channel; also a copious spring or a cloud pouring rain.
Used nominally or adjectivally in expressions such as ماء بجس, عين بجس, and سحاب بجس.
- Lane · entry 35586
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The public headword اِنْبَجَسَ is the normalized Form VII perfect citation form; the sole Quran occurrence is the feminine perfect form ٱنۢبَجَسَتْ.