Quranic root
برم
b · r · m
The root centers on making something tightly joined, firm, or decisively established, alongside established branches for vexation, two-colour mixture, and a class of plants.
The imagery of twisting strands into a firm cord extends to making an affair firm or settled. Other lexical branches develop independently around being wearied or at a loss, combining two colours or substances, and the names of certain plants and their products.
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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.
أَبْرَمَ
ʾabrama
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- 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 make an affair firm and decisive; to firmly determine, settle, or resolve a plan.
In the Quranic construction, the object is an affair or plan, with emphasis on making it settled or decisive rather than merely considering it.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 43:79word 2
“have they determined”
مُبْرِمٌ
mubrimun
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
One who firmly determines or settles an affair; one resolved on making it decisive.
The Quran attests the masculine plural مُبْرِمُونَ; the active participle denotes those who have made an affair firm or determined.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 43:79word 5
“(are) determined”
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 29 Classical meanings
بَرِمَ
To become disgusted, loathing, vexed, grieved, or distressed in mind.
Often construed with بِهِ, meaning to be affected by or disgusted with something.
- Lane · entry 36204
- Lane · entry 36209
بَرِمَ بِحُجَّتِهِ
To be unable to produce an intended argument, allegation, or evidence.
An idiomatic use for failing to bring forward the proof or argument one had intended to adduce.
- Lane · entry 36204
أَبْرَمَ
To make a rope, thread, or string from two strands or distinct twists and then twist it; to twist it well.
The direct physical use is applied to cords, ropes, and similar spun materials.
- Lane · entry 36205
أَبْرَمَ
To think or deliberate about a matter with regard to its outcome, and to carry it out with consideration.
A broader deliberative or purposive use, distinct from the Quranic construction of firmly settling an affair.
- Lane · entry 36205
أَبْرَمَ
To cause someone disgust, vexation, grief, or mental distress.
A causative use with a person as the affected object.
- Lane · entry 36205
أَبْرَمَ
For a vine to put forth grapes at the stage called بَرَم.
A specialized botanical use concerning the development of grapes.
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اِنْبَرَمَ
To be made from two strands or distinct twists and then twisted; to be well twisted.
Used of a rope, thread, or string as the quasi-passive counterpart of the physical Form IV use.
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اِنْبَرَمَ
To become firm, solid, established, settled, or thoroughly arranged.
Used figuratively of a thing, affair, or compact that has become firmly established.
- Lane · entry 36207
بَرَمٌ
The early fruit or flower-like growth of certain acacia-like trees; also early grapes.
The term is applied to the fruit of various trees called عِضَاه and to grapes at an early stage of development.
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بَرَمٌ
A person who declines to participate or contribute in maysir yet eats from its meat; hence an avaricious, mean, sluggish, or otherwise unprofitable person.
A conventional figurative use applied to a person who takes benefit without contributing, with related senses of niggardliness or lack of good.
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بُرْمَةٌ
A cooking pot, especially one made of stone or stones.
The word may also be used more generally for a cooking pot of copper, iron, or another material.
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بُرْمَةٌ
A bracelet-like object worn by women on the arm.
A distinct nominal use for an arm ornament.
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بَرِيمٌ
A rope, thread, or string made by twisting two strands, especially a two-coloured cord used as a woman's waist or upper-arm adornment.
The cord may have two differently coloured yarns and may be ornamented with beads or jewels.
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بَرِيمٌ
A mixture or combination of two colours or of two substances, including mixed water and tears mixed with antimony.
The name highlights the joining or intermixture of unlike colours or materials.
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بَرِيمٌ
An amulet hung on a boy.
This use is associated with the colours of the object.
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بَرِيمٌ
A garment or piece of cloth made with differently composed or twisted yarns, including silk and flax.
A textile use based on the combination of distinct threads or fibres.
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بَرِيمٌ
The liver and hump of a camel, cut lengthwise and tied together.
The designation is explained by the contrasting colours of the liver and hump and is commonly used in the dual.
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بَرِيمٌ
A mixed company or multitude; an army or mixed flock or herd, and also a herd of gazelles.
The collective use refers to a group composed of differing elements, such as people, banners, livestock, or animals.
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بَرِيمٌ
The first light of dawn, combining the darkness of night with the whiteness of day.
A figurative designation based on the intermixture of the two colours at daybreak.
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بَرِيمٌ
Suspected, or inducing suspicion or an evil opinion.
A figurative adjectival use explained through the image of something having two or conflicting aspects.
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بَرِّيمَةٌ
A naturally curled or spiral patch of hair on a horse, used in judging the animal's qualities.
A specialized equine term.
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بَيْرَمٌ
A carpenter's auger, wimble, or gimlet; also a related tool for perforating leather or a hatchet-like implement.
The word is identified as an Arabicized Persian term in the lexical tradition.
- Lane · entry 36214
مُبْرَمٌ
A garment or cloth whose thread is twisted from two yarns or distinct twists.
This passive-participial nominal use describes a textile made from doubled or combined yarns.
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مُبْرَمٌ
Made firm, strong, solid, sound, established, settled, or thoroughly arranged.
Used adjectivally of a thing, affair, or compact; this is the passive-participial counterpart of the broader Form IV meaning.
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مُبْرَمٌ
Ratified or irrevocable, as of a destiny rendered inevitable.
A conventional figurative expression occurs with قَضَاءٌ for a destiny made unavoidable.
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مُبْرِمٌ
A gatherer of بَرَم fruit, especially the fruit of the arāk tree.
A specialized occupational or descriptive use, distinct from the active participle meaning of firmly determining an affair.
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مُبْرِمٌ
A maker of stone cooking pots, including one who extracts, fashions, and hews their stones.
A specialized agent noun associated with the manufacture of بِرَام.
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مُبْرِمٌ
A heavy or sluggish person; one whose discourse is bad, profitless, or meaningless, or who burdens a companion without benefit.
A figurative characterization derived from the unprofitable or non-contributing person called بَرَمٌ.
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مِبْرَمٌ
A spindle used for performing the twisting called إِبْرَام.
The term is the singular of the designated implements used for twisting yarn.
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