Quranic root
فجج
f · j · j
The root centers on opening apart, creating an interval, and widening or spreading.
From this spatial principle come the broad pass or road between mountains, bodily and object-related separation, cleaving, and rounded internal space. The lexicon also records divergent branches involving unripe material, rapid movement, and excessive talk.
- Maqāyīs · row 3516
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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.
فَجّ
fajj
- Part of speech
- Noun / Adjective
- Quran occurrences
- 3 occurrences
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A broad mountain pass or road; a wide route through or between mountains.
In Quranic usage, the plural فِجَاجًا denotes broad passes or wide roads, including routes through mountainous terrain.
- Lane · entry 33261
- Mufradāt · row 1091
Selected Quran examples
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
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Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 18 Classical meanings
فَجَّ، أَفَجُّ
To have the feet or legs wide apart, or to part them widely; to straddle.
Applied to people and animals. The straddling posture may be adopted for urination; the expression is also used of a female camel or sheep or goat in connection with milking.
- Lane · entry 33254
- Lane · entry 33274
الفَجّ
An opening or interval made between two things.
This is the general spatial expression underlying more specific uses such as parting the legs widely.
- Lane · entry 33254
فَجَّتِ القَوْسُ، اِنْفَجَّتِ القَوْسُ، فَجَّاءُ
Of a bow, to have its string set far from the part where it is grasped or from its central belly; a bow in that condition.
The related passive and adjectival forms describe the same configuration of the bow.
- Lane · entry 33254
- Lane · entry 33259
- Lane · entry 33274
فَجَّ الأَرْضَ، أَرْضٌ مُنْفَجَّةٌ
To cleave or plough the earth in a disapproved manner; ground cleft in that way.
The ground-related usage is associated with ploughing or an objectionable cleaving of the earth.
- Lane · entry 33254
- Lane · entry 33278
فَجَّ
Of a horse and similar animal, to intend or desire to run.
- Lane · entry 33254
تَفْجِيجٌ
To make a thing crude or insufficiently cooked.
A causative preparation or cooking usage.
- Lane · entry 33255
فِجٌّ
A Syrian melon or watermelon.
A lexical noun for the melon identified in the source as the type called Indian by Persians.
- Lane · entry 33262
فِجٌّ، فَجَاجَةٌ
Unripe or insufficiently matured; of food, insufficiently cooked, and of a wound, not matured.
Applied especially to fruit and other melons, and to things that should have ripened or cooked more fully.
- Lane · entry 33262
- Lane · entry 33268
- Mufradāt · row 1091
أَفَجَّ
Of an ostrich, to become mute or silent.
The expression is reported of either sex of the ostrich.
- Lane · entry 33257
أَفَجَّ
To travel a road of the kind called فَجّ.
Said of a person travelling along such a road.
- Lane · entry 33257
أَفَجَّ
To hasten, go quickly, or be quick.
Reported of a person or, more broadly, of a thing.
- Lane · entry 33257
فُجَّةٌ
An opening or intervening space between two mountains.
A nominal form for a mountain opening, distinct from the Quranic فَجّ road or pass.
- Lane · entry 33263
فُجُجٌ
Heavy, slow, or sluggish men.
A plural form; the singular is not supplied in the cited evidence.
- Lane · entry 33265
فِجَاجٌ
A male ostrich said to lay one egg.
A reported zoological term, distinct from the homonymous plural associated with roads.
- Lane · entry 33267
فَجَّانٌ
The stem of the raceme of a palm tree.
- Lane · entry 33269
فَجْفَجَةٌ، فَجْفَاجٌ، فُجَافِجٌ
Excessive, frivolous, boastful, clamorous, or disorderly talking; a person characterized by such talk.
A figurative application describes a palm tree that promises abundant fruit but fails to fulfill the promise.
- Lane · entry 33271
- Lane · entry 33272
إِفْجِيجٌ
A valley, especially a wide valley.
In the dialect of some people of Yemen it may denote a narrow, deep valley; elsewhere it can be applied more generally to a valley.
- Lane · entry 33275
حَافِرٌ مُفِجٌّ
A solid, hard hoof rounded like a cupola.
Such a hoof is described as well-formed or approved.
- Lane · entry 33276
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Lane's lexical material is indexed under the contracted root ف ج, while the canonical QAC root is ف ج ج; the Classical evidence has therefore been aligned through the supplied geminate-contraction match.
The Quranic form is tagged by QAC as both noun and adjective; the three occurrences are presented under one lexical sense rather than split by grammatical tagging.