Quranic root
فرث
f · r · th
A root oriented toward fragmentation, scattering, and material broken into scattered residue.
The semantic field extends from scattering or crumbling a material object to the contents or dregs of a ruminant's stomach, the shattering of a liver, and figurative exposure of people to harm or disgrace.
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- Lane · entry 33629
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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.
فَرْثٌ
farthun
- Part of speech
- 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.
The contents of a ruminant's rumen, especially its dregs or digestive residue.
In the Quranic expression describing milk emerging from between rumen contents and blood, the word denotes what is contained in the rumen; the context does not require a separate sense for the contextual rendering “bowels.”
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 16:66word 12
“bowels”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 16:66فَرْثٍۢbowels
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 13 Classical meanings
فَرَثَ
To scatter or disperse the contents of a receptacle, including by ripping open a palm-leaf container.
A transitive Form I use concerning the contents of a receptacle.
- Lane · entry 33629
فَرَثَ
To strike a living person so that his liver becomes scattered or shattered.
A transitive physical use with the liver as the affected part.
- Lane · entry 33629
فَرَثَ
To crumble or crush the liver figuratively through love, grief, or molestation.
Figurative use describing severe emotional distress.
- Lane · entry 33629
فَرِثَ
To be or become satiated.
Also used in the construction of drinking while already satiated.
- Lane · entry 33629
فَرِثَ
For a people or group to become scattered or dispersed.
An intransitive use said of a group.
- Lane · entry 33629
أَفْرَثَ
To rip open a ruminant's stomach and scatter or throw away its contents.
A Form IV causative use concerning the stomach and what it contains.
- Lane · entry 33631
أَفْرَثَ
To expose, denounce, or disgrace people by bringing them before authority or censure, declaring them liars, revealing their secrets, slandering them, or vilifying them.
A figurative Form IV social use encompassing exposure to reproach and damage to reputation.
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اِنْفَرَثَ
For a ruminant's stomach to become torn, with its contents becoming scattered or dispersed.
An intransitive Form VII use describing the stomach and the resulting dispersal of its contents.
- Lane · entry 33633
اِنْفَرَثَ
For a living person's liver to become scattered or shattered by a blow.
An intransitive physical use describing the result of an удар or other blow.
- Lane · entry 33633
اِنْفَرَثَ؛ مُنْفَرَثٌ بِهَا
For a pregnant woman to experience heaving of the stomach, a tendency to vomit, and spitting of phlegm.
A specialized construction associated with the beginning of pregnancy.
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فَرْثٌ
Material scattered from a bag or another receptacle, such as a container for provisions.
A nominal extension from the idea of dispersed contents.
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فَرْثٌ
A small leather vessel for water.
A dialectal variant usage, associated with قَرْثُ.
- Lane · entry 33634
مَفَارِثُ
Places where slaughtered sheep and other animals are ripped open, eviscerated, and skinned.
A plural noun for animal-processing or evisceration sites.
- Lane · entry 33636
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
A historical citation printed as “xvi. 68” is not treated as a modern verse location; the Quran example uses the independently secure QAC location 16:66.