Quranic root
فظظ
f · ẓ · ẓ
The root expresses aversion, repulsiveness, and what is unpleasant or distasteful.
Its concrete reference to the unpleasant fluid of a camel's stomach is connected lexically with the figurative description of a person as rough, coarse, or repellent in character.
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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.
فَظّ
faẓẓ
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- Quran occurrences
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Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Rough, coarse, rude, or repellent in character and manner.
Applied to a person, including harshness of conduct or speech. In the Quranic expression فَظًّا غَلِيظَ الْقَلْبِ, it describes an unpleasant and harsh disposition.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:159word 9
“rude”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 3:159فَظًّاrude
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 7 Classical meanings
فَظَّ
To be or become rough, coarse, rude, or difficult in disposition.
Form I verb; its associated verbal nouns include فَظَاظَةٌ and فَظَظٌ, with فَظَاظَةٌ reported as the more common form.
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فَظَّ
To let out, press out, or squeeze out the fluid from a camel's stomach, and to drink the extracted fluid.
Describes the treatment of a camel's stomach fluid, including extraction after slaughter or by opening the stomach in conditions of thirst.
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فَظّ
The coarse, bitter fluid of a camel's stomach, pressed out and drunk as an emergency beverage.
Associated with thirst or travel in waterless desert regions; it was reported not to be usable for ritual purification.
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فَظّ
Horse urine used as a drink.
Reported in the context of drinking it when suffering from thirst.
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أَفْظَظَ
To turn someone back or away from the object of his desire.
Form IV construction with a person as the one turned away and the desired object as the point from which he is diverted.
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أَفْظَظَ
To insert a thread into the eye of a needle.
A specialized construction concerning threading a needle; the attached pronoun may refer to the eye of the needle or to the thread, according to the construction.
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فَظِيظٌ
Seminal fluid, reported especially as that of a woman or a stallion; one account specifies the stallion's fluid in a she-camel's womb.
The identification is reported with differing attributions and is not considered firmly established; a connection with camel-stomach fluid is also transmitted but disputed.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The rare noun فَظِيظٌ has conflicting transmitted explanations, so its seminal-fluid sense is presented as reported rather than certain.