Quranic root
فقع
f · q · ʿ
The lexical record is explicitly heterogeneous rather than governed by one single regular root principle. Its branches include vivid or unmixed coloration, cracking and bursting, bubbles, and several independent conventional nouns and verbs.
The attested vocabulary preserves separate branches for color terms, cracking or opening with sound, bubbling, poverty and calamity, and specialized concrete or figurative usages; these branches should not be treated as one uniform direct meaning.
- Maqāyīs · row 3628
- Lane · entry 34692
- Lane · entry 34706
- Lane · entry 34708
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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.
فَاقِعٌ
fāqiʿun
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- 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.
Intensely yellow, with a vivid and pure yellow hue.
Used in the Quranic phrase صَفْرَاءُ فَاقِعٌ to describe the cow's color; the emphasis is on genuine, unmixed yellowness.
- Lane · entry 34708
- Mufradāt · row 1127
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:69word 15
“bright”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:69فَاقِعٌۭbright
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 35 Classical meanings
فَقَعَ
To be intensely yellow or free from admixture in color; of a skin or hide, to be beautiful and clear in color.
Used of a thing's color and specifically of skin, hide, or tanned hide.
- Lane · entry 34691
فَقِعَ
To become red.
Lane records this usage of a man.
- Lane · entry 34691
فَقَعَ
Of a boy, to become active, grow, or grow into a young man.
Used of a boy's maturation or increasing activity.
- Lane · entry 34691
فَقَعَ
To die from, or in consequence of, heat.
Attested as a description of a man's death.
- Lane · entry 34691
فَقَعَتِ الفَوَاقِعُ
Of calamities or the vicissitudes of time, to crush a person.
A conventional construction with calamities as the subject.
- Lane · entry 34691
فَقَعَ
To steal.
A separate Form I verbal usage.
- Lane · entry 34691
فَقَعَ
To emit wind from the anus with a sound; to do so vehemently.
The related intensive action is also associated with the verbal noun تَفْقِيعٌ.
- Lane · entry 34691
فَقَّعَ
To twist the sides of the mouth or open the mouth diffusely in speech, uttering meaningless talk.
A Form II usage concerning manner and quality of speech.
- Lane · entry 34692
فَقَّعَ
To make something crack or burst with a sound, including cracking the joints of the fingers and striking a rolled rose leaf until it splits open.
The finger-joint and rose constructions are expressly attested examples of this sound-producing action.
- Lane · entry 34692
فَقَّعَ
To crack or crackle with a sound.
Used of such things as flint in a fire or salt thrown into a fire.
- Lane · entry 34692
فَقَّعَ
To make a hide red.
A transitive Form II color usage.
- Lane · entry 34692
أَفْقَعَ
To become poor or needy, or to be in an evil condition.
A Form IV intransitive usage describing severe deterioration of condition.
- Lane · entry 34693
تَفَاقَعَتْ عَيْنَاهُ
Of the eyes, to become white, cleft or fissured, or filled with foul white matter.
A conventional bodily-condition expression.
- Lane · entry 34695
اِنْفَقَعَ
To become cleft, fissured, or rent open.
A Form VII intransitive usage.
- Lane · entry 34696
فَقْعٌ
Intense whiteness; also intense yellowness or yellowness free from admixture.
Used as a substantive verbal noun or noun of color.
- Lane · entry 34697
فَقْعٌ
An emission of wind from the anus with a sound.
A noun corresponding to the bodily action described under فَقَعَ.
- Lane · entry 34697
فَقْعٌ
A species of truffle, especially the white, soft, inferior, or quickly spoiling kind.
The plural forms include فِقْعَةٌ, أُفْقُعٌ, and فُقُوعٌ; related fungus identifications are also recorded.
- Lane · entry 34697
فَقْعٌ
A person of extreme vileness or abjection, by comparison with the easily trampled truffle.
Occurs in the idiom أَذَلُّ مِنْ فَقْعٍ بِقَاعٍ and its variants.
- Lane · entry 34697
فَقْعٌ
The pointed toes of a type of boot.
A collective or specialized usage marked as figurative in the lexical source.
- Lane · entry 34697
فُقَاعٍ
Intensely red; an epithet applied to a man.
The entry records variant vocalization and treats the word as an epithet of intense redness.
- Lane · entry 34700
فَقِيعٌ
A white pigeon or a kind of white pigeon.
The term is explained through comparison with the white truffle called فَقْعٌ.
- Lane · entry 34701
فَقِيعٌ
Intensely white.
Used as an epithet of strong whiteness.
- Lane · entry 34701
فَقَّاعٌ
One who emits wind from the anus frequently or in great measure.
An intensive personal epithet.
- Lane · entry 34703
فَقَّاعٌ
Strong or vehement.
An adjectival usage recorded separately from the bodily epithet.
- Lane · entry 34703
فَقَّاعٌ
Bad, corrupt, or wicked.
An adjectival usage applied to a person or thing characterized as corrupt.
- Lane · entry 34703
فُقَّاعٌ
A barley beverage whose foam rises on its surface.
A conventional noun for a frothy beverage.
- Lane · entry 34704
فُقَّاعٌ
A plant which becomes hard and horn-like when it dries.
A specific plant name distinct from the beverage usage.
- Lane · entry 34704
فُقَّاعَةٌ
A bubble or rounded bubble-like globule rising on water, wine, or a similar liquid.
The plural is فَقَاقِيعُ.
- Lane · entry 34706
فُقَّاعِيٌّ
A seller of فُقَّاع.
A relational noun derived from the beverage name.
- Lane · entry 34707
فَاقِعٌ
Intensely red or intensely white; more generally, free from admixture when applied to a color.
This broader adjectival color range is distinct from the Quran-attested yellow use.
- Lane · entry 34708
فَاقِعَةٌ
A calamity or misfortune.
The plural is فَوَاقِعُ.
- Lane · entry 34709
مُفْقِعٌ
The worst condition of poverty or deprivation.
Attested in the expression فَقِيرٌ مُفْقِعٌ, describing one reduced to the most desperate condition.
- Lane · entry 34711
مِفْقَعٌ
The anus, regarded as the instrument by which wind is emitted vehemently with a sound.
An instrumental anatomical noun; مِفْقَاعٌ is recorded as a related form.
- Lane · entry 34712
مُفَقَّعٌ
Having a pointed front, especially a boot with a pointed toe.
Used in the expression خَفٌّ مُفَقَّعٌ.
- Lane · entry 34713
المُفَقِّعَةُ
A black bird with a white base to its tail that pecks at camel dung or similar matter.
A specialized bird name.
- Lane · entry 34714
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The root is explicitly described in the lexical evidence as containing disparate words rather than a single regular semantic pattern.
A tentative Form V interpretation meaning contracted is not assigned because the source itself attributes it to an erroneous written form.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
lane-unit:fqE:34694:g1:sub2: Reiske's interpretation of تَفَقَّعَ as meaning contracted, said of a hand, is retained as ambiguous because the passage explicitly judges it probably based on an erroneous writing.