Quranic root
جأر
j · ʾ · r
The root centers on a loud, urgent cry, especially an earnest cry of supplication; animal lowing provides the comparative image.
The evidence connects raised animal vocalization with a human cry made in intense, humble supplication. Classical extensions apply the root to luxuriant growth and to copious, vegetation-producing rain.
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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.
جَأَرَ
jaʾara
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
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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 cry out loudly in earnest prayer or supplication, calling for aid.
In the Quranic use, the cry is an intense appeal directed to God and is associated with humility, distress, and a raised voice; it is more than ordinary speaking or calling.
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Selected Quran examples
To utter a loud animal cry; to low, especially of cattle.
This animal-vocalization branch is also reflected in a reported Quran reading through the related verbal noun جُؤَارٌ. The historical reading reference is not assigned a modern verse location here because no corresponding QAC location is supplied.
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Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 3 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 4 Classical meanings
جَأَرَ
To grow tall, of a plant; of the land, for its plants or herbage to grow tall.
A tropical usage describing the height and growth of vegetation.
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جَأْرٌ
Fresh, juicy, or sappy herbage; also tall, full-grown, and abundant herbage.
Applied to plants or herbage; the listed qualities are alternative descriptions within this vegetation-related usage.
- Lane · entry 45807
جَأْرٌ
Copious rain, especially rain that makes plants or herbage grow tall; in another reported usage, rain that makes a sound or noise.
A conventional description applied to rain, with variant reported characterizations.
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جَأّرٌ
A person who cries out for aid or succour, humbles himself, and raises his voice repeatedly or frequently, especially by night.
An intensive personal descriptor rather than a general statement about the act of crying out.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The historical Quran-reading note attached to جُؤَارٌ is preserved without converting its legacy references into modern surah:ayah locations.
No Maqayis entry was supplied for this root; the root orientation is consequently based on the supplied Quran-focused and classical lexical evidence.