Quranic root
فري
f · r · y
The root centers on cutting or splitting something, with related developments toward shaping, opening, producing something remarkable, and fabricating speech or claims.
The lexical development contrasts cutting to repair or properly shape with cutting that damages or opens; figurative branches include bursting open, excelling, becoming confounded, and fabricating falsehood. The Quranic fabrication sense is especially associated with اِفْتَرَى and its derivatives.
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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.
فَرَى
farā
- 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.
To fabricate or invent a falsehood.
The Quranic occurrence is an imperfect form used for inventing a claim or allegation; the supplied QAC metadata labels this group Form I.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 60:12word 23
“they invent it”
اِفْتَرَى
āiftarā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
- VIII
- Quran occurrences
- 50 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 fabricate, forge, or invent falsehood.
Used for fabricating lies or claims, including falsely attributing statements, partners, or other matters to God. It may occur with عَلَيْهِ, ‘against him,’ and includes both active and passive constructions in the Quran.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:48word 18
“he has fabricated”
Quran 10:37word 6
“(it could be) produced”
Quran 16:116word 11
“so that you invent”
فَرِيّ
fariyy
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- 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.
Remarkable, extraordinary, or of great magnitude.
In the Quranic expression شَيْئًا فَرِيًّا, the term describes something astonishing or extraordinary; the explanations ‘great,’ ‘wonderful,’ and ‘fabricated’ are treated as related interpretations of one underlying sense.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 19:27word 10
“an amazing thing”
مُفْتَر
muftar
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
One who fabricates or invents falsehood.
An active participle used substantively for a person who makes up lies or false claims; the Quran uses both singular and plural forms.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 16:101word 13
“(are) an inventor”
Quran 7:152word 15
“the ones who invent (falsehood)”
Quran 11:50word 17
“inventors”
مُفْتَرًى
muftaran
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- 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.
Fabricated, invented, or made up.
A passive participle describing something presented as fabricated or not genuine; the Quran supplies singular and plural forms.
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Selected Quran examples
اِفْتِرَاء
āiftirāʾ
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- 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.
Fabrication or invention of falsehood; false attribution.
Used for the act of fabricating claims, especially false claims made against God or attributed to Him.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 6:138word 21
“(as) an invention”
Quran 6:140word 13
“inventing (lies)”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 3:24يَفْتَرُونَinventing
- 3:94ٱفْتَرَىٰfabricates
- 4:48ٱفْتَرَىٰٓhe has fabricated
- 4:50يَفْتَرُونَthey invent
- 5:103يَفْتَرُونَthey invent
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 19 Classical meanings
فَرَى
To slit or cut something lengthwise, especially leather or skin; the cutting may be described as either proper or faulty.
Used of cutting a hide, garment, receptacle, wound, or similar object. The lexical contrast between cutting well and cutting badly is preserved without making either result universal.
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فَرَى
To measure, cut, work, sew, or manufacture an object so as to make it sound and properly formed.
Used especially of leather goods such as sandals, a hide, or a leathern water-bag.
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فَرَى
To slaughter or butcher with vehemence.
A metonymic use expressing excess or force in killing.
- Lane · entry 34061
فَرَى
To attack someone with censure or satire; to blame or reproach.
A figurative use applied to speech directed against a person.
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فَرَى
To traverse or cross a land or country.
A figurative extension in which travelling across land is conceived as cutting across it.
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يَفْرِي
To accomplish an extraordinary deed or excel in an undertaking.
Idiomatic usage can also describe someone as excelling in work or magnifying his words about a matter.
- Lane · entry 34061
فَرَى
Of lightning, to shine or glisten with flickering light and continue in the sky.
A specialized usage applied to lightning.
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فَرِيَ
To become confounded, perplexed, astonished, or unable to determine the right course.
Used of a person overcome by fright, bewilderment, or astonishment.
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تَفَرَّى
To become slit, rent, or cleft; figuratively, to burst open or become distinct.
Used of skin or a garment becoming torn, earth bursting forth with springs, and night becoming distinct from dawn. Figurative descriptions may emphasize disclosure, emergence, multitude, or wide extent.
- Lane · entry 34064
فَرْيَةٌ
A clamour or confused mixture of cries, shouts, or noises.
A nominal use for a tumultuous combination of sounds.
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فِرْيَةٌ
A lie or falsehood; also a defamatory allegation.
A noun derived in relation to fabrication and used for false or defamatory speech.
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فِرْيَةٌ
An affair or case of great magnitude, gravity, or importance.
A nominal extension describing the seriousness or moment of a matter.
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فَرِيّ
Slit or cut lengthwise, especially of a skin or hide.
An adjectival description of a hide or similar material that has been cut open.
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فَرِيَّةٌ
A wide leathern bucket.
The form is explained as connected with something slit or opened.
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فَرِيّ
A forger or fabricator of lies.
A nominal description of a person, distinct in headword from the Quranic active participle مُفْتَر.
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فَرِيّ
Milk at the time when it is milked.
A specialized nominal usage.
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الفَرِيَّ
Haste or urgency.
Used in the repeated idiom الفَرِيَّ الفَرِيَّ as an imperative-like expression.
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أَفْرَى الفِرَى
The most mendacious of lies.
A fixed expression in which الفِرَى is the plural of فِرْيَةٌ.
- Lane · entry 34069
مَفْرِيَّةٌ
A leathern water-bag made in a sound or proper manner.
A specialized nominal designation for a well-made water-bag.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied QAC metadata labels the occurrence at 60:12 as Form I, although its supplied Arabic surface and lemma resemble the Form VIII form اِفْتَرَى. It is retained as the distinct QAC Form I group and normalized to the Form I citation headword فَرَى.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The QAC Form I label and the supplied 60:12 surface form are morphologically inconsistent; the artifact follows the authoritative form-group metadata while recording the conflict in cautions.