Quranic root
فطر
f · ṭ · r
An underlying sense of opening, splitting, and bringing something forth.
The root develops from opening or cleaving and bringing something out to originating or creating, emergence, natural constitution, and related acts of release such as milking and ending a fast.
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- Quran-attested forms
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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.
فَطَرَ
faṭara
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 10 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.
To originate, create, or bring into existence for the first time.
Used transitively for bringing something into existence, especially in Quranic assertions that God originated or created people, the heavens, the earth, or other beings.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 6:79word 5
“created”
Quran 30:30word 8
“He has created”
To cleave, split, or become rent.
The QAC group also contains the related tafaṭṭara surface forms, in which the heavens are described as becoming rent or split; this is distinct from the ordinary Form I creation usages in the same group.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 19:90word 3
“get torn”
اِنْفَطَرَ
āinfaṭara
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VII
- Form
- VII
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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To become cleft, split, slit, rent, or cracked.
An intransitive or middle-like construction describing the heaven or another thing as splitting or becoming rent.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 82:1word 3
“(is) cleft asunder”
فَاطِرٌ
fāṭirun
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 6 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.
Originator or Creator: one who brings something into existence.
In Quranic usage, a divine title or predication describing the Originator of the heavens, the earth, or created beings.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 35:1word 3
“Originator”
Quran 12:101word 10
“Creator”
فِطْرَةٌ
fiṭrahun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
The God-given natural constitution or innate disposition by which people are oriented toward recognition of God and receptivity to true faith.
In the Quranic construction فِطْرَتَ اللَّهِ, it denotes the constitution or disposition established in human beings by God, rather than merely biological nature in general.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 30:30word 5
“Nature”
The primordial covenant received from Adam and his descendants.
An alternative Quranic interpretation of the expression in 30:30; it is presented as an interpretive reading alongside the sense of natural constitution.
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فُطُورٌ
fuṭūrun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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Clefts, gaps, or structural flaws.
In the Quranic question about the creation of the heavens, it denotes visible breaks, fissures, or defects in their structure.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 67:3word 18
“flaw”
مُنْفَطِرٌ
munfaṭirun
- 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.
Rent, split open, or cleft apart.
In the Quranic construction describing the heaven as مُنْفَطِرٌ بِهِ, the participle describes the heaven as rent by reason of the event referred to.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 73:18word 2
“(will) break apart”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 6:14فَاطِرِCreator
- 6:79فَطَرَcreated
- 11:51فَطَرَنِىٓ ۚcreated me
- 12:101فَاطِرَCreator
- 14:10فَاطِرِ(the) Creator
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 30 Classical meanings
فَطَرَ
For a camel's tusk or tooth to emerge by cleaving the flesh.
A specialized intransitive use describing the coming forth of a tooth.
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فَطَرَ
To prepare dough or clay immediately, without allowing it to mature; to bake dough without leavening or delay.
Used of dough, bread, or clay prepared hastily before maturation.
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فَطَرَ
To leave a skin insufficiently treated with tanning liquid.
Used of a skin that has not been saturated with the tanning substance or has not been placed in it.
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فَطَرَ
To milk a she-camel, ewe, or goat by drawing the udder with the fingers.
The traditional specialized milking technique uses the thumb and forefinger or the fingertips.
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فَطَرَ
To press or squeeze the fingers; to strike them so that they burst and bleed.
A derived use associated with pressure, bursting, or the coming forth of blood from the fingers.
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فَطَّرَ
To cause someone to break a fast; to give someone breakfast.
Form II is causative or transitive with respect to another person's fasting, and can also describe an act or thing that vitiates a fast.
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أَفْطَرَ
To break one's fast, breakfast, or eat and drink after fasting.
It can also describe entering the time or condition of breaking the fast, even where the focus is the occasion or legal predicament rather than actual eating.
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اِنْفَطَرَ
To break or appear as dawn breaks.
A figurative or tropical construction used of the dawn.
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فَطْرٌ
A small quantity of milk drawn from the udder; by comparison, a sparse discharge such as madhy.
The usage emphasizes scant quantity or emergence from an opening, with differing explanations connecting it to special milking or to a small bodily discharge.
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فُطْرٌ
The breaking forth of plants with buds or leaves.
A noun describing plant growth as it emerges or breaks through.
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فُطْرٌ
A fungus or mushroom, especially one understood as emerging by causing the ground to cleave.
The lexical association is with the fungus breaking through the earth.
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فُطْرٌ
The small quantity of milk remaining in the udder or appearing when it is milked.
A specialized noun for scant milk or milk at the time of milking.
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فِطْرٌ
Grapes at the stage when their heads or fruit stalks first appear.
The term refers to the breaking forth of the grape growth.
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فِطْرٌ
The breaking of a fast; in established expressions, the festival or alms associated with ending the fast.
The expression عيد الفطر names the festival immediately following Ramadan; صَدَقَةُ الفطر is a later legal usage for the associated alms.
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فِطْرَةٌ
Creation or the act of causing something to exist and originating it.
A nominal use of the creation-origination branch, distinct from the Quranic sense of innate human constitution.
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فِطْرَةٌ
Nature, constitution, innate disposition, temperament, or an inherent quality.
A broad Classical Arabic use for a thing's native constitution or characteristic disposition.
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فِطْرَةٌ
The religion of Islam or the prescribed religious way and practice.
A conventional religious usage developed from the idea of an original disposition toward true faith; it also denotes a prophetic way of conduct in some expressions.
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فُطَارٌ
A sword containing cracks or one that does not cut; in another usage, a recently made sword.
The descriptions are variant applications of the broken, ineffective, or newly made condition of the sword.
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فَطُورٌ
Breakfast or food and drink with which one breaks a fast.
A noun for the meal or item used at the end of fasting, distinct from the act of breaking the fast.
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فَطِيرٌ
Unleavened or insufficiently matured dough; by extension, something freshly or immediately prepared.
Used literally of dough or clay and in expressions for fresh or newly made food.
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فَطِيرٌ
Hasty, immature, fresh, or newly made; figuratively, immature in thought or judgment.
The figurative use applies to an opinion or decision formed before it has matured.
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فَطِيرٌ
Insufficiently tanned or untreated.
Used of a skin or whip not properly saturated or softened by tanning.
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فَطِيرٌ
A calamity or grave misfortune.
A lexical synonym of a term for a major calamity.
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فَطِيرَةٌ
A sheep or goat slaughtered on the day of the festival of breaking the fast.
A specialized festival-related noun.
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فُطَارِيٌّ
A man characterized as possessing neither good nor evil, dull or heavy in speech or action.
An archaic descriptive term derived by association with an ineffective or non-cutting sword.
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فَاطِرٌ
A camel whose tusk is emerging or has cleft the flesh and come forth.
This is a specialized nominal use distinct from the Quranic active-participle title Originator.
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فُوطِيرٌ
A Syriac term for sexual intercourse.
A foreign or borrowed lexical item recorded in the root's lexical discussion.
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تَفَاطِيرُ
Pimples or small breakouts appearing on the face, nose, or skin of a boy, young man, girl, or young woman.
A plural-like form with no ordinary singular in the cited usage; it can also describe cracking or chapping of the nose or face.
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تَفَاطِيرُ
The first scattered herbage or the first growth brought forth by rain.
Used of small quantities of vegetation or the first plants breaking forth after the seasonal rain.
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مُفْطِرٌ
A person breaking a fast or eating and drinking after fasting.
A nominal active-participle use, also treated in the source as related to the verbal noun for breaking the fast.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The QAC Form I group includes the surface forms يَتَفَطَّرْنَ; its split sense is therefore displayed under the normalized فَطَرَ group, while the separately grouped اِنْفَطَرَ form is displayed under Form VII.
The covenant interpretation of فِطْرَةٌ is presented as an alternative reading of the Quranic usage, not as the only meaning of the form.