Quranic root
فوج
f · w · j
A root-level orientation toward gathering or aggregation, realized most clearly in فَوْجٌ, a gathered company or group.
The central noun sense is a gathered body, with أَفْوَاجٌ denoting gathered companies or crowds. Other supplied entries preserve separate form-specific developments involving odor diffusion, cooling, haste, dispersal, camel-driving, and incitement; the rapid-movement form is explicitly distinguished as belonging to the yāʾ-root branch.
- Maqāyīs · row 3667
- Lane · entry 35166
- Lane · entry 35167
- Lane · entry 35168
- Lane · entry 35169
- Lane · entry 35170
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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.
فَوْجٌ
fawjun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 5 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.
A gathered company, troop, or crowd; a group moving or passing together.
Used for a singular company and, in the plural أَفْوَاجًا, for crowds or multitudes. Quranic usage includes groups being admitted, cast, or entering together. The characterization of a group as passing swiftly is attested, but speed is not a necessary restriction on every occurrence.
- Lane · entry 35170
- Mufradāt · row 1140
Selected Quran examples
Quran 38:59word 2
“(is) a company”
Quran 67:8word 8
“a group”
Quran 78:18word 6
“(in) crowds”
Quran 110:2word 7
“(in) multitudes”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 27:83فَوْجًۭاa troop
- 38:59فَوْجٌۭ(is) a company
- 67:8فَوْجٌۭa group
- 78:18أَفْوَاجًۭا(in) crowds
- 110:2أَفْوَاجًۭا(in) multitudes
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 11 Classical meanings
فَاجَ
To diffuse or exhale an odor.
Attested in reference to musk and its odor.
- Lane · entry 35166
فَاجَ
Of the day or sun, to become cool or moderated.
Applied to the day, or to the sun at the cool time of day; this is marked as a figurative usage.
- Lane · entry 35166
فَوَّجَ
To cool or refresh oneself with cool air.
A Form II construction describing refreshment by the coolness of the air.
- Lane · entry 35167
أَفَاجَ
To hasten, go quickly, or run.
A Form IV usage expressing rapid movement.
- Lane · entry 35168
أَفَاجَ
Of a people or party, to go away and spread or disperse through the land.
A Form IV construction with a group as subject and dispersal through the land as the resulting movement.
- Lane · entry 35168
أَفَاجَ
To be slow in running.
A separately reported, opposite signification of the Form IV verb.
- Lane · entry 35168
أَفَاجَ
To send camels to a watering place, driving them in successive groups.
A specialized Form IV construction involving camels being driven drove by drove to a watering trough or tank.
- Lane · entry 35168
اُسْتُفِيجَ
To be urged or incited to become brisk, prompt, or quick.
A passive Form X construction describing a person being stimulated to act with promptness.
- Lane · entry 35169
فَوْجٌ
A company consisting of the followers or dependants of a chief.
A specialized social application of the company or group sense.
- Lane · entry 35170
فَوْجٌ
A multitude of things.
An apparently figurative extension beyond a company of people.
- Lane · entry 35170
فَائِجٌ
A fat she-camel; also, as reported, one that is ḥāʾil and fat.
A specialized application to a she-camel, reported separately from the company sense.
- Lane · entry 35172
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The rapid-movement meaning of أَفَاجَ is retained as a Lane-attested derived-form usage, but the root-level discussion explicitly assigns it to the yāʾ-root branch rather than treating it as a direct meaning of the Quranic noun.
The Quranic noun has a broad company or group sense. Density, speed, and particular social membership are contextual or specialized descriptions, not universal restrictions on every occurrence.