Quranic root
فور
f · w · r
The root centers on intense boiling or seething, with related extensions to agitation, gushing forth, and immediate onset.
From the boiling of liquid or fire, the root extends to anger and other states of agitation, abundant effusion, and the initial surge of an action or event.
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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.
فَارَ
fāra
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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.
To boil, seethe, or surge up violently.
Used of a cooking pot or oven and of fire; in the Quranic passages, the boiling or seething may appear as overflowing or gushing forth.
- Lane · entry 35191
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Selected Quran examples
فَوْرٌ
fawrun
- 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.
Immediately; in the first surge or opening phase of an action, without delay.
In مِنْ فَوْرِهِمْ, it denotes coming in the first rush or at the commencement of a procedure, before settling or ceasing from motion; it can also mean at once.
- Lane · entry 35195
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:125word 7
“suddenly”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 4 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 38 Classical meanings
فَارَ
Of liquor, to ferment.
- Lane · entry 35191
فَارَ
Of blood or wine, to flush or mantle in the cheeks or head.
- Lane · entry 35191
فَارَتْ نَفْسُهُ
Of the soul or stomach, to heave or become agitated with a tendency to vomit.
Equivalent in this usage to ثَارَ.
- Lane · entry 35191
فَارَ
Of anger, to boil, become roused or excited, or make someone angry.
- Lane · entry 35191
فَارَ العَصَبُ
Of a sinew, to become swollen or distended.
A reported interpretation of the phrase is used especially of a horse or similar animal; the source records a variant reading alongside the anger-related interpretation.
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فَارَ العِرْقُ
Of a vein, to become agitated and flow forth with blood.
- Lane · entry 35191
فَوْرُ العِرْقِ
Visible inflations or knots in a horse’s vein, a varicose condition.
The condition is described as disapproved.
- Lane · entry 35191
فَارَ
Of water, to well or spring forth from the earth or a source.
The emphasis is on water appearing and pouring forth from a spring or source.
- Lane · entry 35191
فَارُوا
Of assembled people, to bustle or be in a state of commotion in marketplaces.
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فَارَ المِسْكُ
Of the scent of musk, to spread.
- Lane · entry 35191
فُرْتُهُ
To equip a balance with its two iron supports between which the tongue is set.
A technical expression concerning the parts of a balance.
- Lane · entry 35191
فَوَّرَ
To prepare the fenugreek mixture called فِيرَة for a woman after childbirth.
The construction is used with reference to the postpartum woman.
- Lane · entry 35192
أَفَرْتُهُ
To make something boil or seethe.
Causative Form IV usage as recorded in the source.
- Lane · entry 35193
الفَارُ
The muscles of a man.
In the saying أَبْرِزْ نَارَكَ وَإِنْ هَزَلْتَ فَارَكَ, putting forth one’s fire while making one’s muscles lean means giving food despite injuring one’s own body.
- Lane · entry 35194
فَوْرٌ
The burning heat and boiling of Hell; intense or vehement heat.
A nominal use describing heat or boiling.
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فَوْرُ الشَّفَقِ
The remaining redness in the western horizon after sunset.
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فُورٌ
Gazelles.
The word is reported as having no singular in one usage; a singular form is disputed.
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فَارَةُ المِسْكِ
The odor of musk.
- Lane · entry 35197
فَارَةُ المِسْكِ
The bag or receptacle of musk, including its follicle or vesicle.
The same expression is used for either the scent or its receptacle.
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فَارَةُ الإِبِلِ
The sweet exhalation from camels’ skins when they are moist after returning from water.
- Lane · entry 35197
فَوْرَةٌ
An ebullition of anger, rage, or passion.
- Lane · entry 35198
فَوْرَةٌ
Freshness or newness.
Used of taking or receiving something in its fresh or new state.
- Lane · entry 35198
فَوْرَةٌ
The first part or beginning of a period of time.
Used of the beginning of the day and of the time immediately following nightfall.
- Lane · entry 35198
فَوْرَةُ النَّاسِ
The place where people congregate and bustle in a marketplace.
- Lane · entry 35198
فَوْرَةُ الجَبَلِ
The higher or highest part of a mountain, including an elevated hard or level area.
- Lane · entry 35198
فُورَةٌ
A particular flatus or swelling in the pastern of a horse.
An anatomical or veterinary term.
- Lane · entry 35199
فُورَةٌ
A rounded mass or collection of red sand, or sand mixed with pebbles.
- Lane · entry 35199
فِيرَةٌ
Fenugreek mixed as a medicinal preparation for a woman after childbirth.
- Lane · entry 35200
فِيَارٌ
One of the two iron pieces between which the tongue of a balance is set.
The plural is فِيَارَانِ.
- Lane · entry 35201
فُوَارَةٌ
The froth or foam that boils over from a cooking pot, or the foam mantling the surface of wine.
- Lane · entry 35202
فَوَّارٌ
Boiling intensely or gushing forth abundantly.
Used adjectivally of boiling and of water or similar substances welling or pouring forth in abundance.
- Lane · entry 35203
ضَرْبٌ فَوَّارٌ
A blow that makes a wide wound from which blood flows abundantly.
A conventional description of a smiting whose wound is wide and gushing.
- Lane · entry 35203
فَيُّورٌ
Sharp or energetic, said of a man.
Equivalent to حَدِيدٌ in this epithet.
- Lane · entry 35204
فَوَّارَةٌ
A source or spring of water; also a wave or a basin or pool.
The source records variant attributions and applications of the term to these water-related objects.
- Lane · entry 35205
فَوَّارَةٌ
An object that does not move or turn around.
A variant lexical distinction contrasts this use with a related term for something that moves or revolves; the explanation is attributed differently in the transmitted authorities.
- Lane · entry 35205
فَوَّارَةُ الوَرِكِ
An aperture in the haunch or pelvis leading toward the interior of the body.
An anatomical term; the plural refers to two such apertures or pelvic parts.
- Lane · entry 35205
فَوَّارَتَانِ
Two appendages of the stomach of a ruminant, each containing a small nodular lump of flesh.
The parts are described as inedible nodular structures within the stomach region.
- Lane · entry 35205
فَائِرٌ
Swollen in the sinews, said of a horse or another beast.
A participial adjective describing distended or swollen sinews.
- Lane · entry 35207
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Lane's printed reference to “Kur iii. 121” is historical citation notation and is not converted into a modern verse location; the example for مِنْ فَوْرِهِمْ uses the independently supplied QAC location 3:125.
Several related entries, especially فَوَّارَةٌ and فُوَّارَةٌ, preserve variant vocalizations and competing classical explanations.