Quranic root
فره
f · r · h
The root combines the notions of skill or aptitude with exuberant excess or exultation.
These central notions extend in the lexical record to skillfulness, briskness and liveliness, beauty, and derived descriptions of offspring or animals possessing such qualities.
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- Lane · entry 34035
- Lane · entry 34037
- Lane · entry 34044
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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.
فَارِهٌ
fārihun
- 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.
Skilled, adept.
In the Quranic expression describing people who carve houses in the mountains, it denotes carrying out the work skillfully or with expertise; the attested form is the plural فَارِهِينَ.
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- Lane · entry 34039
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 26:149word 5
“skillfully”
Exultant or rejoicing beyond measure, with insolent and ungrateful behavior.
This meaning is reported for the variant Quranic reading فَرِهِينَ at 26:149, alongside the supplied QAC form فَارِهِينَ; it should not be taken as the canonical QAC morphology of that form group.
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- Lane · entry 34035
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Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 26:149فَـٰرِهِينَskillfully
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 18 Classical meanings
فَرُهَ
To be or become skilled or skilful.
- Lane · entry 34035
فَرُهَ / فَرَهَ
To be or become brisk, lively, sprightly, active, agile, or light.
Applied to a horse or similar beast.
- Lane · entry 34035
فَرُهَ
To be or become beautiful, comely, pretty, or elegant.
This use is presented tentatively in the lexical evidence.
- Lane · entry 34035
فَرِهَ
To exult or rejoice beyond measure, behaving insolently and ungratefully.
- Lane · entry 34035
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أَفْرَهَ
Of a female animal or woman, to bring forth offspring characterized respectively as brisk and lively or as beautiful.
The animal application is specifically said of a she-camel; the human application is said of a woman giving birth to beautiful children.
- Lane · entry 34037
أَفْرَهَ
To take for oneself a beautiful or comely youth.
The object is a غلام, understood as a youth, young man, or male slave.
- Lane · entry 34037
اِسْتَفْرَهَ
To seek or select horses or other riding animals of excellent or generous breed.
The supplied expression uses horses; another attested wording uses beasts or riding animals more generally.
- Lane · entry 34038
فَرِهٌ / فَارِهٌ
Skilful or accomplished, used as an epithet for a man, youth, young man, or male slave, and also for a female slave or slave-songstress.
This is a Classical application of the skill-related adjective to persons and social roles.
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فُرَاهٌ
Sweet, of water.
A variant form equated with فُرَاتٌ.
- Lane · entry 34040
فَرَاهَةٌ
Beauty or comeliness.
Used as a simple noun as well as being recorded among the verbal nouns.
- Lane · entry 34041
فُرُوهَةٌ
Skilfulness.
- Lane · entry 34042
فُرُوهَةٌ
Briskness, liveliness, sprightliness, activity, agility, or lightness.
A quality of a hackney, mule, ass, horse, or similar beast.
- Lane · entry 34042
فَارِهٌ
Skilful or possessing skill.
Applied especially to a man or, without the feminine ending, to a female slave or slave-songstress.
- Lane · entry 34044
فَارِهٌ
Brisk, lively, sprightly, active, agile, light, sharp, strong, or a great goer.
Applied to a hackney, mule, ass, or similar beast; the lexical evidence explicitly distinguishes this use from the Arabian horse, which is given other epithets.
- Lane · entry 34044
فَارِهٌ / فَارِهَةٌ
Beautiful or comely, especially of a youth, girl, or young woman.
The feminine form is also reported in variant usage for a youthful female or a female slave or slave-songstress.
- Lane · entry 34044
فَارِهٌ / فَارِهَةٌ
A vehement eater.
Applied to a man or woman.
- Lane · entry 34044
أَفْرَهُ
More beautiful or comely than another.
Used in the comparative construction أَفْرَهُ مِنْ.
- Lane · entry 34045
مُفْرِهٌ / مُفْرِهَةٌ / مُفَرِّهَةٌ
A she-camel that brings forth young termed فُرْهٌ or فُرَّهٌ.
The young are characterized in the related lexical discussion as brisk, lively, sprightly, active, agile, or light.
- Lane · entry 34046
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied QAC group identifies فَارِهِينَ at 26:149. The lexical evidence also records فَرِهِينَ as a variant reading at the same verse; the exultation sense is therefore qualified as variant-reading evidence rather than a reidentification of the canonical QAC form.