Quranic root
فرر
f · r · r
The root has several classical branches: uncovering or exposing, flight or turning away, a class of young animals, and lightness or agitation. The Quranic forms chiefly represent the flight-and-escape branch.
The lexical tradition relates flight to the broader notion of uncovering or moving away, while also recognizing separate animal and lightness/agitation branches rather than deriving every meaning from one direct Quranic sense.
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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.
فَرَّ
farra
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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.
To flee or turn away in order to escape.
Used of fleeing from something feared or threatening; with إِلَى, it can express fleeing or turning toward a refuge or destination, including فَفِرُّوا إِلَى اللَّهِ.
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Selected Quran examples
فِرَار
firār
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- Quran occurrences
- 4 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.
Fleeing; flight; the act or state of turning away to escape.
A verbal noun of فَرَّ, used for flight or fleeing in general and in constructions describing escape from danger or rejection of a summons.
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Selected Quran examples
مَفَرّ
mafarr
- Part of speech
- Noun · verbal/place noun
- 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.
Fleeing or escape itself.
In أَيْنَ الْمَفَرُّ, the form can be understood as asking where or what the escape is, including the act of fleeing.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 75:10word 5
“(is) the escape”
A place or time of fleeing; a place or occasion to which one flees.
The Quranic occurrence أَيْنَ الْمَفَرُّ also permits place and time interpretations; the cited modern location is supplied by QAC.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 75:10word 5
“(is) the escape”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 18:18فِرَارًۭا(in) flight
- 26:21فَفَرَرْتُSo I fled
- 33:13فِرَارًۭاto flee
- 33:16ٱلْفِرَارُthe fleeing
- 33:16فَرَرْتُمyou flee
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 59 Classical meanings
فَرَّ
To wheel widely away from an enemy in order to turn back.
A conventional fleeing-and-returning construction, distinct from simple flight.
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فَرَّ إِلَى
To go or betake oneself to a thing.
A directional construction expressing movement toward a destination; it is broader than the Quranic refuge-oriented use represented under the verb.
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فَرَّتْ يَدُهُ
For the arm or hand to fall off.
An idiomatic bodily-use expression.
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فَرَّ
To examine an animal's teeth by exposing them, especially to determine its age.
Used transitively of examining a horse or other beast's teeth, and of opening a horse's mouth for that purpose.
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فَرَّ
To examine, scrutinize, investigate, or inquire into an affair or a person's inner thoughts.
A figurative extension of examining; may take an affair or a person as its object.
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فُرَّ الأَمْرُ جَذَعًا
For an affair to return to its beginning and recommence.
An idiomatic, figurative construction.
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فَرَّ
To become intelligent after having been weak in mind.
A rare classical intransitive use.
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فَارَرْتُهُ
To investigate another's state while that person investigates one's own.
Form III reciprocal or mutually directed investigation.
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أَفَرَّ
To make someone or something flee or turn away in order to escape.
Form IV causative use; the object may be a person or another animate being.
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أَفَرَّ
To cause an arm or hand to fall off.
An idiomatic bodily-use expression.
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أَفَرَرْتُ رَأْسَهُ
To split or cleave someone's head with a sword.
A transitive Form IV use.
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أَفَرَّتِ الإِبِلُ
For camels or horses to shed their milk teeth and grow replacements.
Used of animals undergoing the indicated stage of dentition.
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تَفَرَّرَ بِهِ
To laugh at, deride, or ridicule someone.
A Form V idiomatic use with بِـ.
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تَفَارُّوا
To flee from one another.
A reciprocal Form VI construction.
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اِفْتَرَّ
To smile broadly or beautifully so as to show the teeth.
A Form VIII expression for smiling without loud or prolonged laughter.
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اِفْتَرَّ
For lightning to glisten or flash.
A figurative extension of showing the teeth in a smile.
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اِفْتَرَّ
To snuff or draw a thing up into the nose.
A separate transitive Form VIII use.
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فَرْفَرَ
To put something into motion, agitation, or commotion; to shake it about.
A reduplicated Form I use, including the motion of a bit in a horse's mouth.
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فَرْفَرَ
To break, cut, split, slit, rend, tear, or mangle something.
The listed uses range from breaking or cutting to violently mangling an object or animal.
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فَرْفَرَ
To defame someone or mangle his reputation.
A figurative extension of tearing or mangling.
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فَرْفَرَ
To disparage or discommend something.
A figurative use, including disparaging the enjoyments of the present world.
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فَرْفَرَ
To call, cry, or call out to someone.
A transitive or directed vocal use.
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فَرْفَرَ
For a camel to agitate or shake its body.
An intransitive animal use.
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فَرْفَرَ
For a horse to strike its teeth against the bit and move its head about.
An intransitive equine use.
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فَرْفَرَ
To hasten or go with short steps.
An intransitive movement use.
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فَرْفَرَ
To be light-minded, unsteady, or foolishly hasty.
Used of mental or behavioral lightness and haste.
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فَرْفَرَ
To speak confusedly or profusely; loquacity or excessive talk.
The verb describes confused or abundant speech, while فَرْفَرَةٌ can denote talk itself.
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فَرْفَرَ
To make the vehicle or women's saddle called فَرْفَار.
A specialized denominative use.
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فَرْفَرَ
To kindle a fire with the wood of the tree called فَرْفَار.
A specialized use associated with the named tree.
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فُرٌّ
The best or choice member of a people, group, or stock of property.
Used of a chief or select person and, by extension, the choicest animals or possessions.
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فُرَّةٌ
The beginning or first part of heat, or its vehemence.
The form may denote either the onset or intensity of heat.
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فُرَّةٌ
Confusion and difficulty.
Used in the expression for falling into confusion or difficulty.
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فِرَّةٌ
A manner of smiling.
Used in describing the quality or beauty of someone's smile.
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فُرَارٌ
A young sheep, goat, cow, or wild bovine; especially a small-bodied young animal or a weaned lamb or kid.
The term can function as a singular or plural designation in the reported classical usages; the exact animal varies by authority.
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فَرُرٌ
A woman who habitually avoids whatever might induce suspicion or an evil opinion.
A conventional epithet applied to a woman.
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فَرِيرٌ
The place or base of the mane on a horse.
An anatomical equine term.
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فَرِيرٌ
The mouth, especially that of a horse or similar animal.
An anatomical use reported for an equine context.
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فُرَّى
A defeated military force or troop.
Used in the expression كَتِيبَةٌ فُرَّى.
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فَرَّاءُ
A woman beautiful in the front teeth.
A feminine epithet concerning the appearance of the front teeth.
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فَرَّارٌ
Quicksilver or mercury.
A specialized name motivated by its flowing rapidly and not remaining in one place.
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فُرَّيْرَةٌ
A spinning top, a child's toy.
A diminutive form used for the toy.
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فَارٌّ
A fugitive or one who is fleeing; by intensification, one who flees much or very readily.
Used as an epithet for one or more persons, including females; the form can function as an epithet or quasi-plural.
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فَرْفَارٌ
A breaker or mangler of everything; specifically, a lion that mangles its antagonist.
The lion designation is a conventional epithet based on the animal's manner of attacking.
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فَرْفَارٌ
Light and unsteady in mind.
An adjectival use, with a feminine form in ـة.
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فَرْفَارٌ
Loquacious, talkative, or a great talker.
An adjectival use comparable to ثَرْثَارٌ, with a feminine form in ـة.
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فَرْفَارٌ
A hard, durable species of tree whose wood is used for vessels and other objects.
A botanical and material-culture term.
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فَرْفَارٌ
A vehicle or saddle for women or pastors, resembling a howdah.
A specialized object name.
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فُرْفُورٌ
A fat, weaned young lamb or kid.
The transmitted evidence includes a noted camel/lamb textual discrepancy; the young-livestock sense is presented cautiously.
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فُرْفُورٌ
A youth or young man.
A figurative extension likening a youth to a well-fed young animal.
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فُرْفُورٌ
A small bird, especially a sparrow or similar passerine.
The term is also reported for certain other small birds.
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فُرْفُورٌ
Parched meal prepared from the fruit of the yanbūt tree.
A specialized food term, also reported under closely related pronunciations.
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فِرْفِيرٌ
Purple or violet, and the violet flower or color.
The term may denote the color or the flower associated with it.
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فِرْفِيرٌ
Purslane.
A separate plant designation reported in the lexical tradition.
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فِرْفِيرِيٌّ
Purple-colored.
A nisba adjective, including use for a purple flower.
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فُرَافِرٌ
A horse that moves or agitates the bit in its mouth in order to disengage it.
An equine epithet.
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فُرَافِرٌ
Rough, ungentle, or uncouth.
An epithet applied to a man.
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الأَيَّامُ المُفَرِّاتُ
Days that reveal or cause news and tidings to spread.
A figurative adjectival expression.
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مِفَرٌّ
A horse fit for fleeing or excellent in fleeing, ready to return to the fight and flee again.
An instrumental noun used as an equine epithet.
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مَفْرُورٌ
Examined, investigated, searched into, or interrogated.
A passive participial form associated with the investigative use of فَرَّ.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
مَفَرّ in 75:10 has an explicitly reported ambiguity between the act of fleeing and a place or time of fleeing; the example therefore links both numbered senses.
The young-animal evidence under فُرْفُورٌ contains a noted transmitted camel/lamb discrepancy and is stated cautiously rather than normalized beyond the evidence.