Quranic root
غرو
gh · r · w
The root combines the ideas of adhesion, persistent attachment, and admiration at beauty. Its lexical field includes both physical sticking and the figurative fixing of attention, desire, or hostility.
Physical adhesive action develops into clinging and fondness, then into causing someone or something to become attached or directed toward another. A parallel branch concerns beauty, wonder, and goodliness; persistent attachment also appears in uninterrupted weeping.
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- Lane · entry 29202
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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.
أَغْرَى
ʾaghrā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- 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 induce, incite, or set someone toward a person or thing; to make someone attached or eagerly directed toward it.
Used with a directed object, often with بِـ. In the Quran, the hostile construction means setting someone upon others or granting him mastery over them.
- Lane · entry 29205
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 33:60word 12
“We will let you overpower them”
To cause enmity and hatred to arise and become fixed between parties, thereby producing discord or strife.
The construction أَغْرَى بَيْنَهُمْ الْعَدَاوَةَ وَالْبَغْضَاءَ treats enmity and hatred as something caused to adhere between them; غَرَاةٌ denotes the resulting excitation of disorder.
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- Mufradāt · row 1041
Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:14word 13
“So We aroused”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 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 25 Classical meanings
غَرَا
To glue or make one thing adhere to another, including gluing feathers onto an arrow.
A physical adhesive action; the adhesive itself is غِرَاءٌ.
- Lane · entry 29202
غَرِيَ
To adhere, cling, or stick to something; an adhering substance may cover it.
Used of physical adherence and figurative clinging. Lane illustrates it with fat adhering to and covering the heart.
- Lane · entry 29202
غَرِيَ
To become attached to, fond of, or eagerly desirous of something.
This denotes self-motivated attachment or infatuation, without another person inciting it.
- Lane · entry 29202
غَرِيَ
To persist or persevere in anger.
An idiomatic use describing continued anger.
- Lane · entry 29202
غَرِيَ
Of water, to become cold or cool.
Reported of water in a pool or watercourse; the lexical sources differ over the precise term for the water body.
- Lane · entry 29202
غَرَا / لَا غَرْوَ
To wonder or be amazed; لَا غَرْوَ means “there is no wonder” or “it is not surprising.”
The phrase لَا غَرْوَ is a conventional expression of unsurprise.
- Lane · entry 29202
- Lane · entry 29207
غَرَّى / غَرِيٌّ
To daub, smear, or rub something over; hence, to be daubed or smeared.
Especially associated with applying an adhesive or coating substance.
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- Lane · entry 29213
غَارَى
To continue without interruption; of the eye, to persist in weeping and overflow with tears.
The expression غَارَتِ الْعَيْنُ بِالْبُكَاءِ describes uninterrupted or copious weeping.
- Lane · entry 29204
غَارَى / تَغَارَى
To wrangle, quarrel, or contend with someone.
The Form VI expression is reported specifically of mutual wrangling in anger.
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أَغْرَى
To make or render a thing goodly or beautiful.
A Classical Arabic Form IV usage distinct from the Quranic incitement constructions.
- Lane · entry 29205
غَرًا
The afterbirth or tissue descending from the womb with the child.
A specialized anatomical usage.
- Lane · entry 29208
غَرًا
A young or newly born animal, especially a young bovine or camel; more broadly, a newborn before its flesh becomes firm.
The sources vary over whether the bovine reference is specifically to the wild cow; the broader youngling sense is also reported.
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غَرًا
Extremely lean, meagre, or emaciated.
A comparative or figurative extension from the soft, undeveloped condition of a young animal.
- Lane · entry 29208
غَرًا
Goodliness or beauty.
A noun denoting the quality of being goodly or beautiful.
- Lane · entry 29208
غَرَاءٌ
A state of attachment, fondness, or eager preoccupation.
A noun or verbal noun associated with غَرِيَ بِهِ and attachment to something.
- Lane · entry 29211
غِرَاءٌ
Glue or another adhesive substance used to make things adhere; also a substance used for smearing or coating.
The sources describe adhesives made from fish or skins and related mucilaginous substances.
- Lane · entry 29212
غِرَاءٌ
A man who has no beast of burden to carry him.
A specialized nominal expression, رَجُلٌ غِرَاءٌ.
- Lane · entry 29212
غَرِيٌّ
Made to adhere; adherent.
An adjectival or passive description of something fixed or attached.
- Lane · entry 29213
غَرِيٌّ
Goodly or beautiful, especially in appearance; also applied to a beautiful person, thing, or building.
The sources particularly mention beauty of face and goodly buildings, while also extending the adjective to other things.
- Lane · entry 29213
غَرِيٌّ
A particular idol or object of pagan worship on which sacrifices were made and with whose blood a person was smeared.
A specialized cultural and religious usage.
- Lane · entry 29213
غَرِيٌّ
A red dye.
A specialized material noun.
- Lane · entry 29213
غُرَاوَى
Froth or foam.
Reported as a form apparently produced by transposition from رُغَاوَى; the form is marked as nonstandard or uncertain in the lexical discussion.
- Lane · entry 29214
مُغْرًى بِهِ
Made attached or fond of something; made eagerly preoccupied with it.
A passive participial expression derived from أَغْرَى بِهِ.
- Lane · entry 29215
مَغْرُوٌّ
Glued or made to adhere.
The passive participle may describe an object fixed with adhesive.
- Lane · entry 29216
مَغْرُوٌّ
A feathered arrow, literally an arrow whose feathers have been glued on; by the same construction, a glued bow.
A conventional lexical use of the passive participle in descriptions of arrows and bows.
- Lane · entry 29216
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The internal QAC lemma أَغْرَيْ is normalized to the dictionary citation form أَغْرَى.
The form غُرَاوَى meaning “froth” is explicitly reported as an apparent transposition and should be treated as lexically uncertain.
The cooling sense is reported with variant descriptions of the relevant pool or watercourse term.