Quranic root
فيض
f · y · ḍ
A central image of the root is the easy, abundant flowing of a substance.
From physical flow and overflow, the lexicon develops causative uses for pouring and filling, movement in a mass like a flood, extended discourse, abundance, and related figurative expressions.
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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.
فَاضَ
fāḍa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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.
To flow, run, or overflow from fullness; of water and other fluids, including tears.
In the Quran, the form describes eyes overflowing or flowing with tears.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:83word 9
“overflowing”
Quran 9:92word 16
“flowing”
أَفَاضَ
ʾafāḍa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 7 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 pour out or forth water, tears, or another fluid.
The Quran uses this causative construction for pouring water upon or toward someone; the broader lexical construction also applies to tears and other fluids.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:50word 7
“Pour”
To move on, press forward, or depart in a group.
The Quranic expression أَفَضْتُمْ مِنْ عَرَفَاتٍ and related wording describe the collective departure or onward movement from ʿArafāt after gathering.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:198word 10
“you depart”
Quran 2:199word 2
“depart”
To enter into, launch into, or engage in discourse.
With فِي, the construction denotes entering into or proceeding in speech; Quranic contexts include discussing or indulging in a matter.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 10:61word 19
“you are engaged”
Quran 24:14word 12
“you had rushed glibly”
Quran 46:8word 16
“you utter”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:198أَفَضْتُمyou depart
- 2:199أَفِيضُوا۟depart
- 2:199أَفَاضَdepart
- 5:83تَفِيضُoverflowing
- 7:50أَفِيضُوا۟Pour
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 41 Classical meanings
فَاضَ
To become abundant, numerous, or plentiful; of good, wealth, or other things, to abound.
A figurative extension of physical overflowing.
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فَاضَ
A report or story spread abroad among people.
A figurative use likening the circulation of news to flowing water.
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فَاضَ
A place became wide or ample.
Figurative usage applied to a place or expanse.
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فَاضَ
A coat of mail spread over or covered someone.
A figurative construction describing the garment as spreading over its wearer.
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فَاضَ
To die; for the soul to depart.
This usage is dialectally and lexicographically disputed, with some authorities preferring فَاظَ; it is nevertheless attested as a Classical usage for فَاضَ, especially with نَفْسٌ.
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فَاضَ
For the bosom to overflow with anger or another strong emotion.
A figurative construction with the overflowing substance understood as an emotion.
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فَاضَ
For a full bosom to disclose or let out a secret that it can no longer conceal.
The construction فَاضَ صَدْرُهُ بِالسِّرِّ describes disclosure caused by inward fullness.
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فَيْضٌ
A divine suggestion or an insinuation, including what the Devil casts into the mind.
An extended, figurative use of flowing or being imparted.
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أَفَاضَ
To fill a vessel so that it overflows.
This causative construction may also be used in the less specific sense of filling a vessel, though overflowing is identified as the preferable interpretation in the cited discussion.
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أَفَاضَ
To cause good, wealth, or another benefit to abound.
A figurative causative use.
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أَفَاضَ
To put a coat of mail on someone, as though pouring or spreading it over him.
A figurative transitive construction with عَلَيْهِ.
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طَوَافُ الإِفَاضَةِ
The circumambulation of the Kaʿbah performed on returning from Minā to Mecca; the circumambulation of visitation.
A conventional pilgrimage term derived from the movement or return denoted by إِفَاضَةٌ.
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أَفَاضَ
To impel or urge a riding animal to run quickly; to make a camel exert itself in a fast run.
A specialized equestrian use; إِفَاضَةٌ can also denote a push or drive onward.
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أَفَاضَ
To enter upon or begin an action or employment and proceed in it.
An extended construction distinct from the Quranic discourse use, applied to an activity or undertaking.
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أَفَاضَ
To impel, thrust, cast, or throw a thing.
A transitive construction with بِالشَّيْءِ.
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أَفَاضَ
For a camel to propel its cud from the stomach and expel it, sometimes in a scattered and copious manner.
The specialized expression أَفَاضَ البَعِيرُ بِجِرَّتِهِ may also refer to the audible sound of chewing and cud.
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أَفَاضَ
Not to make a word or sentence clear, distinct, or perspicuous.
The expression مَا أَفَاضَ بِكَلِمَةٍ is an idiomatic negative construction.
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أَفَاضَ
To handle, shuffle, deal out, or distribute gaming arrows.
A specialized figurative use with the gaming arrows, القِدَاح.
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أَفَاضَ
To put or mix a thing among one's property.
This is reported for a transmitted wording whose reading is itself noted as possibly erroneous.
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أُفِيضَتْ
For a woman to become wide or large in the belly and flabby in flesh.
The source explicitly applies this passive construction to a woman; it is a specialized bodily description.
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أَفَاضَ
To cause the vaginal and rectal passages of a woman to become joined in the context of devirginization.
A rare anatomical usage identified as equivalent to أَفْضَى, with the two forms related by transposition in the cited explanation.
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تَفَيَّضَ
To flow.
A rare attestation of the Form V verb; the source itself notes that it is not otherwise readily found.
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اِسْتَفَاضَ
To ask for the pouring out of water or another fluid.
An inchoative/requesting use of the Form X verb.
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اِسْتَفَاضَ
For news or a story to spread widely; of a valley, to become broad and abundant in trees.
The news usage is an extended sense of spreading; the valley usage combines breadth with abundance.
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فَيْضٌ
A river or abundant, overflowing body of water; also a named great river such as the Nile or the river of Basrah.
The plural forms show that this is a substantive noun rather than merely a verbal noun.
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فَيْضٌ
A horse that runs much, swiftly, or vehemently.
A figurative description likening the horse's speed to pouring water.
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فَيْضٌ
A man who is bountiful, munificent, or abundant in beneficence.
A figurative personal attribute derived from abundance.
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فَيْضٌ
Muchness, abundance, or a large quantity.
This includes the expression غَيْضًا مِنْ فَيْضٍ, meaning a little from much.
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فَيْضٌ
A large gift, or a gift, favor, or grace.
An extended substantive use; the plural فُيُوضٌ is reported.
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بِطَرِيقِ الفَيْضِ
By way of instinct; instinctively.
A fixed figurative phrase derived from the sense of an imparted or flowing influence.
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الفَيْضُ
Death.
A rare substantive use explained as the outpouring of the soul.
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فَيْضٌ
The corpse and bier carried in a funeral procession.
In the expression ذَهَبْنَا فِي فَيْضِ فُلَانٍ, the noun refers metonymically to the deceased and funeral procession.
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فَيَّاضٌ
A river containing much water or flowing abundantly.
An intensive adjective applied to a river.
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فَائِضٌ
A full watering-trough, sea, or great river that overflows or pours vehemently.
An active participial adjective describing abundant or overflowing water.
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حَدِيثٌ مُفَاضٌ فِيهِ
Discourse into which people have entered, launched, or proceeded at length.
The phrase describes discourse in which speakers have pushed on, dilated, or begun to engage.
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دِرْعٌ مُفَاضَةٌ
A wide or ample coat of mail.
A passive-participial description of armor spread over its wearer.
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مُفَاضٌ/مُفَاضَةٌ
Wide or full in the belly; of a woman, large-bellied and flabby in flesh.
The source applies the masculine form to a man and the feminine form to a woman; some descriptions add unusual height or bodily fullness.
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مُفَاضٌ/مُفَاضَةٌ
Having the vaginal and rectal passages joined.
A specialized interpretation reported by some authorities and connected with مُفْضَاةٌ by transposition.
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مُسْتَفِيضٌ
One who asks for the pouring out of water or another fluid.
An active participle of the requesting use of اِسْتَفَاضَ.
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مُسْتَفِيضٌ
A story or piece of news that has spread among people.
The construction مُسْتَفِيضٌ فِيهِ is also reported; the bare form مُسْتَفَاضٌ in this sense is rejected by many lexicographers, though some usage is recorded.
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مُسْتَفَاضٌ فِيهِ
Discourse that has been entered into, begun, or proceeded in.
This passive construction is reported as an alternative usage, while the bare مُسْتَفَاضٌ is generally disallowed for this meaning.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Lane records substantial disagreement over whether فَاضَ and فَاضَتْ نَفْسُهُ may mean “died,” with some authorities preferring فَاظَ; the death usage is therefore kept as Classical evidence rather than assigned to a Quranic sense.
Several derived and participial entries involve rare, restricted, or disputed usage, especially the Form V flow verb, the property-mixing wording, and the bare form مُسْتَفَاضٌ; their conditions are stated with the relevant qualifications.