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Quranic root

فتق

f · t · q

Opening or separating something that was joined or closed.

The root develops from physical opening and separation to gaps, emergence through an opening, social rupture, diffusion, and forms describing expansion or becoming swollen.

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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.

فَتَقَ

fataqa

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 part or open apart what was joined; to separate connected things.

    In the Quranic usage, the heavens and earth are described as joined or closed together and then parted.

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    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 21:30word 10

    then We parted them

Occurrences in the Quran

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

  • 21:30فَفَتَقْنَـٰهُمَا ۖthen We parted them
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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 44 Classical meanings
  • فَتَقَ

    To slit, tear, rend, or open something; to divide it lengthwise, disjoin it, or undo its sewing.

    Physical applications include opening a rent or unfastening a sewn thing.

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  • فَتَقَ

    To cause disunion or dissension among people, or to bring about war among them.

    A figurative social application, especially of a rupture within a community.

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  • فَتَقَ

    To dissolve or break a compact or covenant.

    A figurative application to an agreement or bond.

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  • فَتَقَ

    To put leaven into dough.

    The object is dough and the action is understood through the leaven placed in it.

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  • فَتَقَ

    To draw out or increase the fragrance of musk, perfume, or oil by mixing it with another substance.

    Applied to perfumes and oils compounded with aromatics such as aloes-wood.

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  • فَتِقَ

    Of a woman, to become فتقاء: to have a dehiscent or wide vulva.

    A specifically anatomical use, contrasted with being رتقاء, or closed and constricted.

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  • فَتِقَ

    Of a year, to become abundant in herbage.

    A figurative fertility use for a year of abundant pasture.

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  • فَتَّقَ

    To slit, open, or separate repeatedly, extensively, or in many places.

    Form II conveys an intensive or multiplicative application of the opening action.

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  • فَتَّقَ

    To rectify language, trim away its defects, or make its meaning clear.

    Applied to speech or expression.

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  • فَتْقٌ

    A rent, slit, opening, or separation.

    Used as a noun for a physical opening or the condition resulting from being slit apart.

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  • فَتْقٌ

    A breach or rupture in relations between people.

    A figurative social use; closing the breach means reconciling or restoring relations.

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  • فَتْقٌ

    A rupture, hernia, or related bodily malady involving a rent in abdominal or surrounding tissue.

    The term covers several anatomically described forms of rupture, including protrusion through the damaged tissue.

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  • فَتْقٌ

    A gap or opening in clouds.

    The term can denote an opening through which light appears.

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  • فَتْقٌ

    An open, spacious place.

    A figurative or transferred spatial use of an opening.

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  • فَتْقٌ

    A tract of land that received no rain while surrounding land received rain; hence, a year or region of scant rainfall.

    Applied to a localized rainless patch and, by extension, to a year characterized by such gaps in rainfall.

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  • فَتْقٌ

    The dawn, or the breaking and rising of dawn.

    A figurative use for light opening through darkness.

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  • فُتُقٌ

    Diffuse or profuse in speech; loquacious.

    Used of a person characterized by abundant speech.

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  • فُتُقٌ

    One who mars or bungles affairs in carrying them out.

    An alternative lexical application reported for the same adjective.

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  • فِتَاقٌ

    The parting or clearing of clouds from before the sun, allowing the sun's limb or disk to appear.

    Also denotes the visible upper limb or disk when it reappears after being covered.

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  • فِتَاقٌ

    The base or lower stem of certain palm structures, including the lower part of a raceme after its fruit-stalks are removed.

    A botanical use referring to palm fibres or the stem of a fruit raceme.

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  • فِتَاقٌ

    A large lump of leaven used to make dough mature quickly.

    A figurative or specialized use of the opening or expansion notion in dough.

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  • فِتَاقٌ

    A compounded mixture of medicaments or aromatic substances prepared so that its odour diffuses.

    Includes mixtures involving oil of jasmine or musk compounded with ambergris.

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  • فَتِيقٌ

    Forked or split at the edges; of an arrowhead, having two separated branches, and of a sword, sharp on both edges.

    The adjective can describe an object as split or sharply edged.

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  • فَتِيقٌ

    Sharp-tongued, eloquent, chaste, or perspicuous in speech.

    A figurative adjective applied to a person's tongue or manner of expression.

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  • فَتِيقٌ

    Shining or radiant dawn.

    A figurative adjectival use for the brightness of dawn.

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  • فَتِيقٌ

    Of a camel, swollen or inflated in the flanks from fatness.

    Applied to a fat camel or she-camel.

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  • فَتِيقٌ

    A crease, gash, or rent-like opening.

    Used in the sense of فَتْق in a poetic description of a camel.

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  • فَاتِقٌ

    Slitting, rending, or opening.

    An active-participial use for one who or something that parts or rends.

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  • فَاتِقٌ

    A possessor of command or rule, able to open and close, widen and straiten.

    Occurs in the idiom الفاتق الراتق for someone exercising authoritative control.

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  • فَيْتَقٌ

    A carpenter; also reported for a blacksmith, doorkeeper, or king.

    The additional applications are variant lexical explanations of this obscure noun.

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  • مَفْتَقٌ

    The place of the slit or opening in a shirt.

    A garment-related noun for the location where a shirt is opened.

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  • أَفْتَقَ

    Of a man or group, to have beasts that became swollen in the flanks from abundant pasture and fatness.

    The subject may be a person or a group, while the swelling is described of their animals.

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  • أَفْتَقَ

    Of the sun or moon, to find an opening in clouds and appear through it.

    Applied when the heavenly body emerges after being concealed by clouds.

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  • أَفْتَقَ

    Of clouds, to part from over a party of people.

    The construction describes the clearing of clouds from above people.

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  • أَفْتَقَ

    To find or come upon a tract that received no rain while rain fell around it.

    Applied to a locality distinguished by a gap in rainfall.

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  • أَفْتَقَ

    To go forth to an open, spacious place.

    A figurative spatial use comparable to emerging into open country.

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  • أَفْتَقَ

    To become harassed or beset by poverty, debt, hunger, or disease.

    A figurative use for being overtaken by distressing conditions.

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  • أَفْتَقَ

    To clean the teeth with the stem or lower part of a palm raceme.

    A specialized action involving a palm stem.

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  • تَفَتَّقَ

    Of cattle or their flanks, to become swollen or dilated from fatness and abundant grazing.

    The source also describes a possible subsequent illness or recovery; the lexical core is swelling from fatness.

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  • تَفَتَّقَ

    To be diffuse or profuse in speech.

    A figurative construction likening abundant speech to bursting open.

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  • اِنْفَتَقَ

    To become slit, rent, open, divided apart, disjoined, or unstitched.

    A quasi-passive or intransitive counterpart of opening or separating something; of clouds, it can mean to become parted from before the sun or from over people.

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  • اِنْفَتَقَ

    Of a fat child, for the armpits to become chapped or cracked.

    A specialized bodily use.

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  • اِنْفَتَقَ

    For a calamity, misfortune, or disaster to burst upon someone.

    A figurative construction describing sudden onset of adversity.

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  • اِنْفَتَقَ

    Of a she-camel, to be seized by a disease between the udder and navel associated with fatness.

    The condition may resolve or may prove fatal.

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