Quranic root
همر
h · m · r
The root centers on pouring, spilling, and flowing forth.
This image extends to flowing tears and rain, extracting liquid completely, bestowing property, sweeping something away, abundant speech, and movement with the force of a torrent.
- Maqāyīs · row 4935
- Mufradāt · row 1531
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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.
مُنْهَمِر
munhamir
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
Pouring down or flowing forth copiously.
In the Quranic occurrence, it is an active-participle description of water pouring down; the lexical usage concerns a liquid that pours or flows out abundantly.
- Mufradāt · row 1531
- Lane · entry 10637
- Lane · entry 10640
Selected Quran examples
Quran 54:11word 5
“pouring down”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 54:11مُّنْهَمِرٍۢpouring down
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 16 Classical meanings
هَمَرَ
To pour or pour forth liquid, such as water, tears, or rain.
A transitive use describing liquid being released or poured out.
- Lane · entry 10630
هَمَرَ
To draw all the milk from an udder.
A conventional use referring to completely extracting the milk in the udder.
- Lane · entry 10630
هَمَرَ لَهُ
To give someone property from one's wealth.
A figurative extension in which giving is pictured as pouring something out to another person.
- Lane · entry 10630
هَمَرَ
To talk much or speak abundantly.
Used with في الكلام, بالكلام, or الكلام in the cited constructions.
- Lane · entry 10630
اِنْهَمَرَ
To pour or flow forth, especially of water, rain, or tears; of an eye, to flow with tears.
An intransitive Form VII use describing liquid or tears flowing abundantly.
- Lane · entry 10631
اِنْهَمَرَ بِالكَلَامِ
To pour forth speech or talk abundantly.
The expression is used with بالكلام and presents abundant speech through the image of a torrent.
- Lane · entry 10631
- Lane · entry 10630
اِهْتَمَرَ
To run like a torrent, with rushing speed.
A figurative or expressive description of rapid, forceful movement.
- Lane · entry 10632
هَمِرٌ
Much sand.
A nominal description of sand in great quantity.
- Lane · entry 10633
هَمْرَةٌ
A fall of rain.
A noun for a single downpour or fall of rain.
- Lane · entry 10634
هَمْرَةٌ
Angry or vehement speech.
A figurative usage describing speech marked by anger.
- Lane · entry 10634
هَمَّارٌ
A cloud pouring forth much rain.
A descriptive nominal use applied to a rain-bearing cloud.
- Lane · entry 10636
هَمَّارٌ
A loquacious, garrulous, or babbling person, including one whose speech is irrational, clamorous, or excessively abundant.
A figurative description of abundant or torrent-like speech; the source does not establish a restriction to a particular gender or class of speaker.
- Lane · entry 10636
مِهْمَرٌ
An orator copious in speech.
A nominal description of a speaker distinguished by plentiful speech.
- Lane · entry 10636
يَهْمُورٌ
Much sand.
A lexical variant of the sand description attested under هَمِرٌ.
- Lane · entry 10641
- Lane · entry 10633
يُهَامِرُ الشَّيْءَ
To take or sweep something away in a mass, as by a scoop or broad sweep.
A conventional construction with the object of the action.
- Mufradāt · row 1531
- Maqāyīs · row 4935
هَمِيرَةٌ
An old woman.
An independently attested nominal use.
- Mufradāt · row 1531
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
Lane entry 10636 sub2 contains extraction gaps around some additional Arabic headword forms. The attested speech meanings are retained under the explicitly named هَمَّارٌ and مِهْمَرٌ, but the omitted forms are not assigned separately.