Quranic root
جرع
j · r · ʿ
The root centers on swallowing or taking in a small quantity of liquid.
From this core develop the senses of a gulp or small draught, scant milk, the last breath near departure, and barren or rugged sand imagined as not being satisfied. The rope-twist sense is explicitly treated as a divergent branch.
- Maqāyīs · row 1134
- Mufradāt · row 243
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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.
تَجَرَّعَ
tajarraʿa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form V
- Form
- V
- 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 swallow or drink in successive small portions, with effort or difficulty; to gulp down something scarcely manageable.
The Quranic Form V usage concerns taking in a drink or liquid and emphasizes the effort involved in getting it down, rather than ordinary effortless drinking.
- Lane · entry 46534
- Mufradāt · row 243
Selected Quran examples
Quran 14:17word 1
“He will sip it”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 14:17يَتَجَرَّعُهُۥHe will sip it
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 12 Classical meanings
جَرِعَ
To swallow water; transitively, to swallow it, sometimes at once.
Form I, used for swallowing liquid, with both intransitive and transitive constructions attested.
- Lane · entry 46531
جَرَّعَ
To make someone swallow or drink; to give liquid gulp by gulp, sup by sup, or sip by sip.
The causative action may involve forcing a drink down the throat, though it can also be non-coercive.
- Lane · entry 46532
جَرَّعَ
To make someone repress or restrain choking wrath or rage.
Figurative construction, representing the restraint of anger as making someone swallow it.
- Lane · entry 46532
أَجْرَعَ
To make a rope or bowstring have one or more strands thick, or thicker than the others.
Technical description of the structure or manufacture of a rope or bowstring.
- Lane · entry 46533
تَجَرَّعَ
To repress or restrain choking wrath or rage.
Figurative Classical usage, portraying anger as something swallowed; this specialization is not separately established as Quranic in the supplied evidence.
- Lane · entry 46534
جَرَعٌ
A twist or protrusion in one strand of a rope or bowstring that appears above the other strands.
A noun describing an irregularity in the strand structure.
- Lane · entry 46536
جَرِعٌ
A rope or bowstring whose twisting is uneven, with one or more strand prominences projecting above the others.
An adjectival description of a rope or bowstring having the irregularity called جَرَعٌ.
- Lane · entry 46537
جُرْعَةٌ
A gulp, sup, sip, or mouthful of water; the amount or single act swallowed at one time.
The noun can denote either the quantity taken in or the individual act of swallowing a drink.
- Lane · entry 46539
جُرَيْعَةُ الذَّقَنِ
In the idiom جُرَيْعَةُ الذَّقَنِ, a tiny sup at the chin, hence the last breath or the brink of destruction.
An idiomatic expression for someone who was at the point of destruction or death and then escaped.
- Lane · entry 46539
جُرْعَةٌ
Figuratively, something swallowed of wrath or rage while it is repressed.
Proverbial or figurative use extending the physical act of swallowing to the restraint of anger.
- Lane · entry 46539
جَرَعَةٌ
A sandy tract, hill, or hillock, described variously as barren, rugged, or mixed with stone.
Classical descriptions vary: the term may refer to barren sand, a hard sandy tract, a rugged plain, or a hill with sand and stone.
- Lane · entry 46541
مُجْرِعٌ
A she-camel yielding only a few sups of milk because her udders contain little.
The plural is used of camels with this scant-milk condition.
- Lane · entry 46546
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic occurrence is an imperfect active Form V token; the public headword is normalized to the Classical Arabic perfect citation form تَجَرَّعَ.