Quranic root
دفق
d · f · q
The root denotes driving or pushing something forward, especially in a forceful, flowing movement.
From this central idea develop the senses of pouring or gushing, a quantity released at once, overflow, and figurative rapid movement.
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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.
دَافِقٌ
dāfiqun
- 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.
Flowing or gushing rapidly and forcefully; also understood as poured forth.
In ماءٍ دافقٍ, describes the fluid as pouring out at once or with vehemence, as possessing a gush, or, in a recognized participial interpretation, as poured out.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 86:6word 4
“ejected”
Seminal fluid, in the Quranic interpretation of the fluid named in ماءٍ دافقٍ.
This is a Quran-specific interpretation of the expression in which the fluid is identified as seminal emission.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 86:6word 4
“ejected”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 86:6دَافِقٍۢejected
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 25 Classical meanings
دَفَقَ
To pour liquid or contents out, especially at once or with vehemence.
Usually transitive; an intransitive use with water or tears is reported, though its acceptability is disputed.
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دَفَقَ
To overflow or become full so that water pours forth from the sides.
Said of a river, rivulet, or valley.
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دَفَقَ
To make a beast hasten; of a beast, to hasten or go quickly.
Applied to beasts of conveyance and other animals described as moving rapidly.
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دَفَقَ رُوحَهُ
To pour out someone's spirit, meaning to cause that person to die; also used as an imprecation meaning “may he die.”
A figurative or imprecatory construction.
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دَفِقَ
Of a camel, to have its teeth projecting outward or its elbows spread apart from its sides.
A bodily description of a camel.
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دَفَّقَ
To cause something to pour forth copiously or abundantly; figuratively, to bestow lavishly.
The figurative use includes hands pouring forth largesse.
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تَدَفَّقَ
To pour or flow forth copiously, or to become poured forth.
An intransitive or quasi-passive derived construction.
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تَدَفَّقَ
To hasten into false, vain, or unprofitable activity.
A figurative construction used with falsehood or vanity.
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تَدَفَّقَ
For one's forbearance or clemency to depart.
A figurative construction describing the loss of self-restraint.
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اِنْدَفَقَ
To pour forth or out, or to become poured forth.
An intransitive derived form, equivalent in this usage to flowing or being poured out.
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اِسْتَدْفَقَ
For the contents of a mug to be poured forth or out at once.
Said specifically of a vessel whose contents are released suddenly.
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دَفْقَةٌ
A single act of pouring forth or out, whether at once or with vehemence.
A countable occurrence or instance of pouring.
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دُفْقَةٌ
A quantity poured forth at once or with vehemence; a gush of rain or blood.
The quantity may be a continuous fall or release without interruption.
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دُفْقَةً وَاحِدَةً
All at once or together, especially of a group arriving as one body.
A conventional adverbial construction.
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دِفَقٌّ
Swift, quick, or fleet.
Applied especially to a camel or horse, and to a camel's manner of going.
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دِفِقَّى
A swift, fleet she-camel, particularly one of generous race.
An animal description; the source also associates the term with rapid movement.
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دِفِقَّى
A she-camel that has never given birth.
A separate reported application of the same lexical form.
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الدِّفِقَّى
A manner of walking or running quickly, sometimes with wide or alternating steps.
Applied to a person's gait; the description can also refer to a swaying or uneven manner of proceeding.
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دُفَاقٌ
A torrent that fills a valley or its two sides; by extension, swift.
An adjective applied to a powerful, rapidly moving torrent.
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دَفَّاقٌ
Pouring forth copiously or abundantly; said of extensive, abundant rain and of a river or rivulet.
Also applied to the mouth of a leather water-bag that pours out abundantly.
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دَافِقٌ
Pouring forth abundantly; in دَافِقُ خَيْرٍ, pouring forth good.
A prognosticatory expression used when the contents of a vessel are poured out.
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أَدْفَقُ
Quick or swift in pace.
Applied to a pace or rate of going, including the utmost degree of the pace called العَنَق.
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أَدْفَقُ
Bowed or bent in the back because of age or grief.
Applied to a person.
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أَدْفَقُ
Of a new moon, oblique; in another reported usage, upright and white rather than turned sideways.
The sources preserve differing applications of the adjective to the form and position of the new moon.
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أَدْفَقُ
Having teeth projecting outward or forward; of a camel, having the elbows spread apart from its sides.
Applied to a camel or to a mouth, with the bodily description varying by object.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic expression ماءٍ دافقٍ has several explicitly reported interpretations: rapidly gushing, poured forth, possessing a gush, and referring to seminal fluid.
The intransitive use of Form I with water or tears is reported but disputed in the lexical evidence.