Quranic root
جثث
j · th · th
The root is oriented toward the gathering or compact formation of a thing into a whole or mass.
This principle is reflected in the body or corporeal form, an elevated mass of earth, and particles gathered in honey. In the uprooting branch, something is removed together with its whole root or body, leaving nothing of its base behind. One reported extension relates the contraction of a frightened person to the same principle.
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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.
اِجْتَثَّ
āijtaththa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
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- 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 be uprooted completely, with the whole root or bodily mass pulled out.
The Quran occurrence is the passive feminine perfect ٱجْتُثَّتْ, describing complete removal from the earth or base rather than mere cutting or partial removal.
- Mufradāt · row 228
Selected Quran examples
Quran 14:26word 6
“uprooted”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 14:26ٱجْتُثَّتْuprooted
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 15 Classical meanings
جَثَّ
To pull something up or out; to cut it off or cut it from its root; to uproot or eradicate it.
The usages center on removal from the base, especially taking the whole root or body of a tree.
- Lane · entry 45974
جَثَّ
To take honey together with the bee matter mixed with it, including its wax, remnants, or dead bees.
A specialized usage describing a honey collector's taking the honey with its جَثّ and other bee remnants.
- Lane · entry 45974
اِنْجَثَّ
To be or become pulled up or out, cut off from the root, uprooted, or eradicated.
The usage is especially illustrated of a tree whose whole body or root is removed.
- Lane · entry 45975
جَثٌّ
Beeswax or particles of bee wings and bodies, including dead bees, mixed with honey; also dead locusts.
The sources give several applications for animal matter or debris associated with honey, with dead locusts reported as an additional use.
- Lane · entry 45977
جُثٌّ
Elevated ground forming a visible mass, such as a small hill or mound.
- Lane · entry 45978
جُثٌّ
The envelope or outer covering of a fruit, including the covering of a palm spadix.
This is a distinct nominal use of the same vocalized form.
- Lane · entry 45978
جُثَّةٌ
The body or corporeal, protruding form of a person or thing.
For a person, the term is particularly associated in the cited descriptions with being seated, sleeping, reclining, or lying on the side, rather than standing erect.
- Lane · entry 45979
- Mufradāt · row 228
جُثَثٌ
Bodies or corpses.
The plural is also used for a body in the sense of a corpse.
- Lane · entry 45980
جَثِيثٌ
A young palm tree or palm shoot detached from its mother tree or pulled from the ground and replanted.
The term applies to the young planting until it yields fruit; the evidence distinguishes this use from planted stones.
- Lane · entry 45981
جَثِيثٌ
Produce fallen at the roots or lower parts of a tree, including grapes fallen at the base of a vine.
The evidence applies the term both to material at the roots of palms and to fallen grapes.
- Lane · entry 45981
مِجَثَّةٌ
An iron implement used to pull up or remove young palm trees or shoots.
It is a tool for uprooting جَثِيث, namely young palm growth.
- Lane · entry 45982
شَجَرَةٌ مُجْتَثَّةٌ
An uprooted tree, with no root remaining in the ground.
The phrase describes complete removal by the root, not merely cutting the trunk.
- Lane · entry 45984
بَحْرُ المُجْتَثِّ
The fourteenth Arabic poetic metre, regarded as cut off from the خفيف metre.
The cited pattern is مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ فَاعِلَاتُنْ فَاعِلَاتُنْ, with the technical prosodic qualification given in the source.
- Lane · entry 45984
الجَثْجَاثُ
A plant.
- Mufradāt · row 228
الجَثِيثَةُ
A lexical term associated with cooking, explained as named because its bodily mass becomes apparent after cooking.
The supplied evidence does not identify the referent more precisely.
- Mufradāt · row 228
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quran attests the passive feminine perfect ٱجْتُثَّتْ; the public headword is normalized to the active perfect citation form اِجْتَثَّ.
A narrow report restricts جُثَّةٌ to a man on a saddle wearing a turban, but the same lexical discussion says this restriction is not corroborated by other usage.
The referent of الجَثِيثَةُ is not specified more precisely in the supplied Mufradat excerpt.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The supplied Mufradat discussion records جُثِثْتُ مِنَ الرَّجُلِ for becoming frightened and explains it through bodily contraction. It is retained as root-development evidence rather than promoted to a standalone dictionary meaning because the packet supplies no independent Lane entry for that expression.
The Mufradat note on الجَثِيثَةُ establishes its naming explanation but not its exact referent; the corresponding classical item is therefore intentionally minimally defined.