Quranic root
غيث
gh · y · th
Rain descending from the sky, reaching and benefiting the land.
The central rain sense extends to watering land and people, rain characterized by aid or productivity, and consequent growth such as herbage. Other attested derivatives develop specialized or figurative meanings.
- Maqāyīs · row 3484
- Lane · entry 30215
- Lane · entry 30218
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- Quran-attested forms
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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.
أَغَاثَ
ʾaghātha
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- 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.
To provide with rain; in the passive, to be given rain.
The Quranic occurrence is the passive imperfect يُغَاثُ and describes people receiving rain. The supplied lexical evidence attests the corresponding construction of sending rain upon or raining upon people.
- Lane · entry 30215
Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:49word 8
“will be given abundant rain”
غَيْث
ghayth
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
Rain; rain descending from the sky.
The Quranic uses denote rain generally. A more specialized classical qualification of rain as especially beneficial or aid-bringing is listed separately under broader Classical Arabic meanings.
- Lane · entry 30218
Selected Quran examples
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 12:49يُغَاثُwill be given abundant rain
- 31:34ٱلْغَيْثَthe rain
- 42:28ٱلْغَيْثَthe rain
- 57:20غَيْثٍ(of) a rain
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
غَاثَ
To water land with rain or send rain upon people; said also of rain falling upon land.
Form I verb. Passive constructions describe land or people being rained upon.
- Lane · entry 30215
غَاثَ النَّوْرُ
The blossom shone.
Tropical usage.
- Lane · entry 30215
غَيَّثَ
To seek, search, or grope for a thing.
A Form II usage explicitly applied to a blind man.
- Lane · entry 30216
تَغَيَّثَ
To become fat.
A Form V usage said of a camel.
- Lane · entry 30217
غَيْث
Rain characterized as productive of much good or as bringing aid and succour.
A classical qualification of the rain term, also attested in the phrase غَيْثٌ مُغِيثٌ; the aid-bearing qualification is associated with the notion of succour.
- Lane · entry 30218
- Lane · entry 30222
ذُبَابُ غَيْثٍ
The bee, or bees collectively.
An idiomatic tropical designation, linked to the bee's pursuit of vegetation and flowers that follow rain.
- Lane · entry 30218
غَيْث
Herbage growing by means of rainwater.
Tropical usage in which the product is named for its cause.
- Lane · entry 30218
غَيْث
Clouds.
Tropical usage.
- Lane · entry 30218
غَيِّث
Water beneath a stratum of rock; hence, a well having a constant accession of water.
A specialized nominal usage.
- Lane · entry 30220
غَيِّث
Of a horse, one that performs or increases its running from run to run.
Tropical usage describing sustained or increasing performance.
- Lane · entry 30220
أَرْضٌ مَغِيثَةٌ / أَرْضٌ مَغْيُوثَةٌ
Land watered by rain.
Participial or adjectival description of rain-watered land.
- Lane · entry 30221
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The specialized aid-bringing qualification in غَيْثٌ مُغِيثٌ is presented separately because the supplied discussion relates the epithet مُغِيثٌ to the غوث notion of aid.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The Quranic surface form يُغَاثُ is homographic with the passive rain-upon construction recorded under Form I غَاثَ, while the supplied QAC analysis classifies the Quranic group as Form IV. The rain-provision meaning is assigned, but the correspondence between the two derivational analyses is not independently resolved by the packet.