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Quranic root

فرج

f · r · j

The root centers on opening, widening, or becoming unclosed, whether as a physical gap or as release from constraint.

From physical opening and intervening space, the lexicon develops meanings for fissures, access points, bodily openings, relief from grief, exposure, and related derived states. Some specialized usages depart from this central pattern, notably the technical term مُفْرَجٌ for an unallied or unidentified slain person.

  • Maqāyīs · row 3556
  • Mufradāt · row 1099
  • Lane · entry 33639
  • Lane · entry 33651
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Quran-attested forms
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Quran senses
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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.

فَرَجَ

faraja

Part of speech
Verb · Form I
Form
I
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.

  1. To open, cleave, or split apart; in the Quranic occurrence, to be opened or cleft.

    Attested in the passive perfect feminine form فُرِجَتْ, describing the sky becoming opened, cloven, or rent.

    • Lane · entry 33639
    • Mufradāt · row 1099
    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 77:9word 3

    is cleft asunder

فَرْجٌ

farjun

Part of speech
Noun
Quran occurrences
8 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.

  1. A fissure, rift, cleft, or opening.

    In the Quranic plural فُرُوجٍ, specifically used of cracks or rifts in the structure of the sky.

    • Mufradāt · row 1099
    • Lane · entry 33644
    • Lane · entry 33651
    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 50:6word 12

    rifts

  2. The pudendum; by euphemistic extension, chastity or sexual modesty.

    Used with singular and plural possessive forms for the sexual private parts, and in contexts of guarding or preserving chastity.

    • Mufradāt · row 1099
    • Lane · entry 33644
    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 24:30word 7

    their chastity

    Quran 23:5word 3

    of their modesty

Occurrences in the Quran

Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.

  • 21:91فَرْجَهَاher chastity
  • 23:5لِفُرُوجِهِمْof their modesty
  • 24:30فُرُوجَهُمْ ۚtheir chastity
  • 24:31فُرُوجَهُنَّtheir chastity
  • 33:35فُرُوجَهُمْtheir chastity
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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 45 Classical meanings
  • فَرَجَ

    To make an opening or intervening space between two things; to open a thing, door, or mouth.

    The active Form I construction describes causing an interstice or opening, including opening a door or opening the mouth.

    • Lane · entry 33639
  • فَرَجَ لِـ

    To make room or provide space for someone.

    Used of people making ample space for a person in a place of standing or sitting.

    • Lane · entry 33639
  • فَرَجَ

    To remove, clear away, or dispel grief or sorrow.

    Often used with عَنْ in the construction فَرَجَ اللهُ عَنْهُ غَمَّهُ.

    • Lane · entry 33639
  • فَرِجَ

    To have the pudendum habitually uncovered while sitting.

    A state or behavior described of a person whose private parts remain exposed.

    • Lane · entry 33639
  • فَرِجَ

    To have buttocks that do not meet, or scarcely meet, because of their size.

    Reported as an additional bodily description in the lexical entry.

    • Lane · entry 33639
  • فَرَّجَ

    To become extremely old, aged, or weak.

    A specialized Form II usage.

    • Lane · entry 33640
  • أَفْرَجَ

    To clear away from someone or something, leave its way, or abandon a place; to disperse.

    Used of people removing themselves from a road or place, and of dust becoming dispersed.

    • Lane · entry 33641
  • أَفْرَجَ

    For one's shooting or casting to deteriorate after having been good.

    A specialized usage referring to a change for the worse in marksmanship or casting.

    • Lane · entry 33641
  • أَفْرَجَ

    To cause a she-camel to become loosened in the hip joints during a difficult first parturition, and thereby distressed.

    A specialized childbirth construction, also yielding the sense distressed.

    • Lane · entry 33641
  • تَفَرَّجَ

    To divert, amuse, or cheer oneself; to seek entertainment.

    Often followed by عَلَى and an object viewed for diversion; the entry characterizes this use as possibly postclassical.

    • Lane · entry 33642
  • اِنْفَرَجَ

    To open, gape, become unclosed, or become loosened and unknotted.

    Used of a physical opening, a bone, limb, or joint; of a bow, its curved extremities may stand apart from the string.

    • Lane · entry 33643
  • اِنْفَرَجَ عَنِ الْكَلَامِ

    To break off from or interrupt speaking.

    A reported construction meaning to desist from speech.

    • Lane · entry 33643
  • اِنْفَرَجَ

    For grief, sorrow, or anxiety to be removed, cleared away, or dispelled.

    Used intransitively of distress coming to an end.

    • Lane · entry 33643
  • اِنْفَرَجَ

    To become happy or cheerful.

    A derived Form VII emotional-state usage.

    • Lane · entry 33643
  • فَرَجٌ

    The state of having the pudendum habitually uncovered.

    A substantive or quasi-verbal-noun use describing persistent exposure while sitting.

    • Lane · entry 33647
  • فَرَجٌ

    Relief from grief, sorrow, anxiety, difficulty, distress, or constraint; ease after trouble.

    A noun of release or clearing away, as in expressions for the removal of grief.

    • Lane · entry 33647
  • أُمُّ الفَرَجِ

    A name for the dish جُوذَابَة.

    A fixed idiomatic name rather than a productive general meaning.

    • Lane · entry 33647
  • فَرِجٌ

    A person whose pudendum is habitually uncovered while sitting.

    An adjectival description of the person exhibiting the condition.

    • Lane · entry 33648
  • فَرِجٌ

    A place of diversion or amusement.

    Applied to a place in which تفَرُّج, diversion or pleasing pastime, is found.

    • Lane · entry 33648
  • فَرْجٌ

    The space between the hind legs, or between the fore and hind legs, of a horse or similar animal.

    Extended idiomatically to expressions for a horse running at full speed.

    • Lane · entry 33644
  • فَرْجٌ

    The external sexual organs or pudendum of a person or animal.

    Classical usage can include male, female, and juvenile humans and animals; common parlance often specifies the anterior pudendum, while legal usage may include both anterior and posterior parts.

    • Lane · entry 33644
  • فَرْجٌ

    An open tract, entrance, pass, or frontier route; especially an exposed place of danger requiring protection.

    Includes the opening of a valley or road, a mountain pass, and a vulnerable access route into a country.

    • Lane · entry 33644
  • فُرُجٌ

    A bow whose limbs stand wide apart from the string.

    The term describes the open space between the bow's curved extremities and its string.

    • Lane · entry 33649
  • فُرُجٌ

    A woman wearing a single garment.

    A dialectal usage attributed to Yemen, with a corresponding Najdi form reported.

    • Lane · entry 33649
  • فُرُجٌ

    A person who does not conceal a secret, or who habitually reveals secrets.

    An adjectival characterization of indiscretion.

    • Lane · entry 33649
  • فَرْجَةٌ

    A state of defeat or rout.

    Reported in the expression for overtaking a group while they were in defeat; an alternative reading of the expression is also transmitted.

    • Lane · entry 33650
  • فُرْجَةٌ

    An opening, gap, or intervening space between things, including a gap in a wall or room made among people.

    Also used of unoccupied spaces in rows or ranks, such as gaps in a prayer row.

    • Lane · entry 33651
  • فَرِيجٌ

    A female animal or woman whose joints have become loosened through parturition; by extension, a fatigued camel.

    Used especially of a ewe or woman after giving birth and of a she-camel fatigued as compared with that condition; it can also denote a she-camel bearing her first offspring.

    • Lane · entry 33655
  • فَرِيجٌ

    Uncovered, exposed, appearing, or apparent.

    Reported as a correction of a variant explanation and applied, for example, to a pearl exposed for sale.

    • Lane · entry 33655
  • فَرَّاجٌ

    One who frequently removes or dispels grief or anxiety from afflicted people.

    An intensive agent noun.

    • Lane · entry 33656
  • فَرُّوجٌ

    A young domestic hen or chicken.

    Has the plural فَرَارِيجُ and a reported dialectal variant with initial dammah.

    • Lane · entry 33657
  • فَرُّوجٌ

    A slit-backed cloak or garment, or a child's shirt.

    The garment is named for its opening or slit; the usage is also attested for a fur-lined or silk garment.

    • Lane · entry 33657
  • فَارِجٌ

    A she-camel whose hip joints have become loosened through parturition and which consequently dislikes the stallion's approach.

    A specialized animal description related to the postpartum sense of فَرِيجٌ.

    • Lane · entry 33658
  • أَفْرَجُ

    Having teeth with spaces between them.

    Used in the expression أَفْرَجُ الثَّنَايَا, synonymous with أَفْلَجُ.

    • Lane · entry 33659
  • أَفْرَجُ

    Having buttocks that do not meet, or scarcely meet, because of their size.

    The feminine form is فَرْجَاءُ; the description is reported especially among Abyssinians.

    • Lane · entry 33659
  • تِفْرِجٌ

    A person who beats, washes, and whitens clothes; a fuller or laundry worker.

    A specialized occupational noun synonymous with قَصَّارٌ.

    • Lane · entry 33660
  • تِفْرِجَةٌ

    An opening or slit, especially an interstice between fingers, an aperture in a railing, or a slit in a garment.

    Its plural forms تَفَارِيجُ are used for these openings and garment slits.

    • Lane · entry 33661
  • تِفْرِجَةٌ

    Cowardly and weak; one who becomes defeated or flees in battle.

    Several forms with or without initial ن are reported for this adjectival usage.

    • Lane · entry 33661
  • مَفْرَجٌ

    A place of opening, outlet, or egress.

    Includes an opening of the mouth and places through which one exits.

    • Lane · entry 33663
  • مُفْرَجٌ

    A person without an alliance, kin, or supporting relations; in a legal usage, an unidentified slain person or an unallied dependent for whom compensation is borne by the community or treasury.

    The entry records variant explanations and a disputed distinction from مُفْرَحٌ; the definition here represents the reported ج reading and its associated legal-social senses.

    • Lane · entry 33664
  • مُفْرِجٌ

    One whose shooting or casting has deteriorated after previously being good.

    A specialized active-participial description.

    • Lane · entry 33665
  • مُفْرِجٌ

    A hen that has chicks.

    A feminine-less adjectival or nominal animal usage.

    • Lane · entry 33665
  • مُفَرَّجٌ

    A camel whose elbows are distant from the armpits, giving it a wide stance.

    The feminine form applies to a she-camel with wide armpits because of the elbow position.

    • Lane · entry 33666
  • مُفَرَّجٌ

    A comb.

    A separate nominal usage recorded without further qualification.

    • Lane · entry 33666
  • مَفْرُوجٌ

    An opened door.

    A passive-participial nominal use.

    • Lane · entry 33667

Cautions

Points that affect how this root should be read.

  • The Quranic plural فُرُوجٍ in 50:6 denotes fissures or rifts in the sky, while the other Quranic occurrences of فَرْجٌ and فُرُوجٌ use the anatomical or euphemistic chastity sense.

  • The Lane discussion of the technical term مُفْرَجٌ records variant readings and several attributed explanations; the classical entry preserves that reported lexical branch without treating the variants as separate Quranic forms.

Unassigned or ambiguous evidence

  • lane-unit:frj:33639:g3:sub4 reports an additional sense of فَرِجَ as being liberated from cares or joyful, but explicitly states that its authority could not be found; it is therefore left unassigned rather than presented as established evidence.