Quranic root
فرح
f · r · ḥ
The root has two distinct semantic axes: joy and gladness as the opposite of sorrow, and burdening or making heavily burdened.
The affective branch describes an opening or lightness of the heart through delight, often especially immediate or worldly delight. A separate derived branch develops meanings of burdening, particularly through debt, alongside causative meanings of making joyful.
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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.
فَرِحَ
fariḥa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 16 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 feel joy, gladness, or happiness; to rejoice.
The Quranic use denotes an experience of delight or gladness. The delight may be immediate and worldly, or may be directed toward a valued gift, outcome, or promise.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 10:58word 6
“let them rejoice”
To exult or rejoice beyond measure.
In the explicitly blameworthy construction, the excessive rejoicing carries implications of insolence, ingratitude, or unthankfulness.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 28:76word 24
“exult”
Quran 57:23word 7
“exult”
فَرِحٌ
fariḥun
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- 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.
Rejoicing, joyful, glad, or happy.
An adjectival description of a person or group experiencing joy or gladness, including joy directed toward what has been granted or received.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 23:53word 9
“rejoicing”
Well pleased or content with what one has.
Used with بِـ or an equivalent object of satisfaction to describe contentment with a possession, condition, or religious position.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 30:32word 11
“rejoicing”
Exulting or rejoicing beyond measure.
In the Quranic condemnation of the الفَرِحِينَ, the adjective denotes excessive exultation associated with insolence and ingratitude.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 28:76word 29
“the exultant”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 3:120يَفْرَحُوا۟they rejoice
- 3:170فَرِحِينَRejoicing
- 3:188يَفْرَحُونَrejoice
- 6:44فَرِحُوا۟they rejoiced
- 9:50فَرِحُونَ(are) rejoicing
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 20 Classical meanings
فَرِحَ
To be well pleased or content with a thing.
A distinct use of the verb alongside the ordinary sense of experiencing joy.
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أَفْرَحَ
To make someone joyful, glad, or happy; to make someone content; or to cause someone to exult.
A causative Form IV use covering the several degrees of producing joy, contentment, or excessive exultation.
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أَفْرَحَ
To grieve someone or make someone unhappy, literally to deprive that person of joy.
A contrary causative use documented alongside the meaning ‘to make joyful.’
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أَفْرَحَ
To burden, burden heavily, or overburden.
Used of a debt, an obligation, or a thing that weighs heavily upon someone.
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فَرَحٌ
Joy, mirth, gladness, or happiness.
A simple substantive for the state or sensation of joy; it is contrasted with sorrow and may denote transient delight rather than settled tranquillity.
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فَرَحٌ
A state of being well pleased or content with a thing.
A nominal use distinct from the general state of joy.
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فَرَحٌ
Exultation or rejoicing above measure.
The term may describe excessive exultation accompanied by insolence, ingratitude, or unthankfulness.
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فَرَحٌ
A festivity or merry-making, especially a marriage celebration.
A later or contemporary conventional use of the noun for a celebratory occasion.
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فَرَحٌ
In the expression مِنَ الفَرَحِ, the word may be interpreted as مِنَ المَفْرُوحِ بِهِ, meaning the beloved or desired object.
This is an idiomatic interpretive use, not the ordinary abstract meaning ‘joy.’
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فَرْحَةٌ
A joy, gladness, or happiness.
A feminine noun for an instance or state of joy.
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فُرْحَةٌ
A cause or occasion of joy, gladness, or happiness.
A thing through which someone is made joyful or happy.
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فُرْحَةٌ
A gift or recompense given to someone who brings joyful news.
A conventional reward for announcing good news, comparable to a congratulatory gift or good tidings.
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فَرْحَانَةٌ
Reportedly, a white truffle.
The reading and root assignment are disputed in the cited lexical discussion; another transmission gives قُرْحَانَةٌ.
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مُفْرَحٌ
A person burdened heavily by debt, a fine, bloodwit, ransom, or a similar obligation and unable to pay.
The term is also used for someone overcome by such liability in need of communal assistance.
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مُفْرَحٌ
A needy or poor person, including one possessing no property.
A related use describing someone overwhelmed by want or poverty.
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مُفْرَحٌ
A person not known to have kinsfolk or near relations.
A reported lexical use concerning a person without known familial support.
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مُفْرَحٌ
A slain person found between two towns or villages.
A specialized reported use for an unidentified or unclaimed dead person found in an open area.
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مُفْرِحٌ
A thing, affair, or event that makes someone joyful, glad, or happy.
The word describes the cause of happiness, rather than the person experiencing it.
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مُفَرِّحٌ
A particular exhilarating medicine given to someone in grief so that they become happy.
A technical medical designation, also called سُلْوَانٌ in the cited discussion.
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مِفْرَاحٌ
One who rejoices much or often.
It may describe someone who rejoices whenever fortune makes him happy.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The reported فَرْحَانَةٌ meaning ‘white truffle’ is textually disputed, since another transmission gives قُرْحَانَةٌ; it is retained as a qualified Classical report rather than treated as a secure central root meaning.