Quranic root
فرغ
f · r · gh
The root centers on emptiness, vacancy, and available capacity, with related uses involving release from occupation and pouring out what a vessel contains.
From the idea of being empty or having room, the root develops into becoming free from work, directing oneself to an object once free, pouring or casting contents outward, and describing breadth, spaciousness, or unhindered movement.
- Maqāyīs · row 3568
- Mufradāt · row 1106
- 3
- Quran-attested forms
- 5
- Quran senses
- 6
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
فَرَغَ
faragha
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 2 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 become free from an occupation or affair; to finish or have completed it.
Used with مِنْ for becoming free from or finishing something, and in the construction إِذَا فَرَغْتَ for being finished with an undertaking.
- Lane · entry 33922
- Mufradāt · row 1106
Selected Quran examples
Quran 94:7word 2
“you have finished”
To turn one's attention exclusively to someone or something; to make it one's immediate object.
In the Quranic construction سَنَفْرُغُ لَكُمْ, the expression is figurative and means to direct oneself exclusively to the addressed parties for reckoning and requital.
- Lane · entry 33922
- Mufradāt · row 1106
Selected Quran examples
Quran 55:31word 1
“Soon We will attend”
أَفْرَغَ
ʾafragha
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 3 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 pour or cast a liquid or other substance out, onto, or into a receptacle or object.
The physical construction includes pouring water or blood and casting molten material into a mold; the Quranic occurrences include both material pouring and casting.
- Lane · entry 33924
- Mufradāt · row 1106
Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:96word 17
“I pour”
To pour or bestow patience upon someone, so that it envelops and sustains them.
A figurative use with عَلَى; patience is conceived as something poured over or sent down upon the recipient.
- Lane · entry 33924
- Mufradāt · row 1106
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:250word 7
“Pour”
Quran 7:126word 12
“Pour”
فَارِغٌ
fārighun
- 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.
Empty or vacant; of the heart or mind, emptied of ordinary composure or other concerns and left dominated by one overriding concern.
In the Quranic description of Moses's mother, the heart is variously explained as devoid of patience or anxiety, or as containing nothing except remembrance of Moses; these are contextual interpretations of an emotionally emptied state.
- Lane · entry 33937
- Mufradāt · row 1106
Selected Quran examples
Quran 28:10word 5
“empty”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:250أَفْرِغْPour
- 7:126أَفْرِغْPour
- 18:96أُفْرِغْI pour
- 28:10فَـٰرِغًا ۖempty
- 55:31سَنَفْرُغُSoon We will attend
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 47 Classical meanings
فَرَغَ
To become empty, vacant, void, devoid, or unoccupied; to be available or left open for someone.
Includes descriptions of a thing becoming vacant and the construction فَرَغَ لَكَ الشَّيْءُ, in which something is available exclusively for another.
- Lane · entry 33922
فَرَغَ
To die, as the body becomes devoid of its soul.
A figurative use said of a person.
- Lane · entry 33922
فَرِغَ
Of water, to pour or flow forth.
Said of water that becomes poured out or issues forth.
- Lane · entry 33922
فَرُغَ
Of a horse, to be easy, good, and quick in pace, with a wide step.
A specialized description of a horse's spacious and unhindered movement.
- Lane · entry 33922
فَرُغَ
Wide, especially of a wound made by a stroke or blow.
A figurative extension from the breadth of a bucket's pouring outlet.
- Lane · entry 33922
فَرَاغَةٌ
Impatience, disquiet, disturbance, or agitation.
A lexical noun associated with فَرُغَ.
- Lane · entry 33922
فَرَّغَ
To empty or make a thing void or unoccupied.
Includes making a receptacle empty and a reported Quranic reading in which hearts are made void of fear; this Form II reading is not a separate canonical QAC form group in the packet.
- Lane · entry 33923
فَرَّغَ
To free someone from business or employment so that they can devote themselves to another matter.
The object is a person who is released from an occupation or left at leisure for a specified purpose.
- Lane · entry 33923
أَفْرَغَ
To address someone with words that leave him confounded or perplexed by shame.
A figurative construction with عَلَيْهِ ذَنُوبًا, literally likened to pouring a bucketful upon someone.
- Lane · entry 33924
أَفْرَغَ
To ejaculate or emit semen during sexual intercourse.
A specialized bodily use with عَلَى at intercourse.
- Lane · entry 33924
تَفَرَّغَ
To free oneself from occupation and devote oneself exclusively to a matter.
Includes becoming unemployed or at leisure, applying oneself to worship or another affair, and confining oneself exclusively to it.
- Lane · entry 33925
اِفْتَرَغَ
To pour water over oneself or pour water out for oneself.
The construction may describe taking water and pouring it upon oneself or preparing it for one's own use.
- Lane · entry 33926
اِسْتَفْرَغَ
To draw out or remove the contents of a vessel.
Used of extracting water or other contents from a water-skin or vessel.
- Lane · entry 33927
اِسْتَفْرَغَ
To induce vomiting or vomit intentionally.
A conventional medical usage.
- Lane · entry 33927
اِسْتَفْرَغَ
To exhaust or use up completely, including taking an entire available portion or exerting one's power to the utmost.
Used of consuming all that is in a bowl or vessel and figuratively of expending one's effort without reserve.
- Lane · entry 33927
فَرْغٌ
Width, breadth, or spaciousness.
A noun of breadth and ample extent.
- Lane · entry 33928
فَرْغٌ
The outlet or pouring side of a leathern bucket, where water issues between its wooden cross-pieces.
A specialized vessel term; its plural forms also designate the corresponding outlets.
- Lane · entry 33928
فَرْغَان
The two lunar mansions known as the two Farghs, or the associated pairings of stars.
A technical astronomical term for the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh lunar mansions.
- Lane · entry 33928
فَرْغٌ
A vessel containing date syrup or a similar expressed juice.
A specialized container noun.
- Lane · entry 33928
فَرْغٌ
Land affected by drought or barrenness.
A specialized description of unproductive ground.
- Lane · entry 33928
فِرْغًا
In vain, without consequence, retaliation, or compensation.
In the expression ذَهَبَ دَمُهُ فِرْغًا, said of blood whose claim is not pursued and for which no compensation is obtained.
- Lane · entry 33929
فِرْغًا
Lost, gone away, or left as though it were absent.
A reported Quranic reading concerning the heart of Moses's mother; the reading is preserved here under its own headword because it is not the canonical QAC nominal group.
- Lane · entry 33929
فُرُغٌ
Made empty or rendered void; of a vessel, emptied, and in a reported reading, of a heart emptied of patience or anxiety.
A passive or resultative adjective; the Quranic reading is distinct from the canonical active-participle form فَارِغٌ.
- Lane · entry 33931
فُرُغٌ
Of a bow, without a string or, according to one explanation, without an arrow.
A specialized description of an unequipped bow.
- Lane · entry 33931
فَرْغَان
A wide or capacious vessel.
A nominal vessel use distinct from the astronomical plural-like term.
- Lane · entry 33932
فَرَاغٌ
Emptiness, vacancy, freedom from business, or cessation from an affair.
Used both as an abstract noun and as a verbal noun associated with becoming free or finishing.
- Lane · entry 33933
بَيْتُ الفَرَاغِ
A privy or latrine.
A fixed compound expression.
- Lane · entry 33933
فِرَاغٌ
A large bowl or capacious vessel, including a large watering trough or a vessel of any kind.
The term may refer specifically to a great bowl that is difficult to carry or to a hide watering trough.
- Lane · entry 33934
فِرَاغٌ
An udder.
A specialized anatomical noun.
- Lane · entry 33934
فِرَاغٌ
Half of a camel's load, the portion carried on one side.
A dialectal usage attributed to the Tayyiʾ dialect.
- Lane · entry 33934
فِرَاغٌ
Valleys or torrent-beds.
Used as a plural-like geographical term.
- Lane · entry 33934
فِرَاغٌ
Broad arrowheads; also a bow whose arrowhead makes a wide wound or whose arrow travels far.
A specialized archery use involving breadth, range, or the effect of the arrowhead.
- Lane · entry 33934
فِرَاغٌ
A she-camel without a brand or hot-iron mark.
A specialized epithet for a she-camel.
- Lane · entry 33934
فِرَاغٌ
A she-camel with abundant milk and an ample udder.
A specialized animal description.
- Lane · entry 33934
فِرَاغٌ
A bow whose arrowhead makes a wide wound or whose arrow travels far.
A specialized bow description; the related broad-arrowhead use is separately recorded under the same lexical family.
- Lane · entry 33934
فَرِيغٌ
Broad or wide; hence, of a wound or spear-thrust, wide and allowing blood to flow.
The adjective applies to broad physical effects and to a wide wound or piercing.
- Lane · entry 33935
فَرِيغَةٌ
A capacious leathern water-bag that can contain much water.
A figurative extension from breadth or spacious capacity.
- Lane · entry 33935
فَرِيغٌ
Of land, level or flat, broad, and marked by much treading.
A specialized description of open, even ground.
- Lane · entry 33935
فَرِيغٌ
Wide-stepping, easy, good, or swift in movement.
Applied to a horse or ass and also to a man, without restricting the term to one animal class.
- Lane · entry 33935
فَرِيغٌ
Sharp, of an arrow or knife; figuratively, sharp-tongued, of a man.
The figurative human use describes incisive speech.
- Lane · entry 33935
فُرَاغَةٌ
A man's semen.
A specialized anatomical noun.
- Lane · entry 33936
فَارِغٌ
Empty, vacant, void, or free from business; of speech, empty or nonsensical.
Applies to vessels, people free from occupation, and figuratively to empty talk. أَفْرَغُ is the comparative or superlative form, meaning more or most empty or free; the feminine and synonymous pointer forms add no separate branch.
- Lane · entry 33937
- Lane · entry 33938
مَفْرَغٌ
A place or part from which something is poured, especially the part of a leathern bucket next to the front of a watering trough.
A specialized place noun associated with pouring.
- Lane · entry 33939
مَفْرَغٌ
The flowing or running of water.
A verbal-noun-like use associated with water issuing forth.
- Lane · entry 33939
مُفْرَغٌ
Cast or poured into a mold; by extension, solid and continuous, as a ring without a break.
Applied to cast metal and figuratively to a continuous ring whose sides have no cut.
- Lane · entry 33940
مُسْتَفْرِغَةٌ
A she-camel with much milk.
A specialized animal description.
- Lane · entry 33941
مُسْتَفْرِغٌ
Of a horse, exhausting its running power without reserving any for later.
A figurative animal description of expending one's full capacity.
- Lane · entry 33941
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Several Lane entries preserve alternative Quranic readings under Form II or under the nouns فِرْغٌ and فُرُغٌ; these are recorded as separate lexical evidence because the supplied canonical QAC groups contain only Form I, Form IV, and فَارِغٌ.
The Lane Quran citations in the evidence use historical citation notation; modern verse locations in the examples are used only where independently supplied by QAC.