Quranic root
نضج
n · ḍ · j
Reaching the endpoint of cooking or heat-induced completion, with extensions to ripeness, maturity, and sound completion.
The semantic development proceeds from becoming fully cooked or ripe to anything reaching a perfected or well-developed state, including judgment and other completed conditions.
- Maqāyīs · row 4656
- Lane · entry 43876
- Lane · entry 43882
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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.
نَضِجَ
naḍija
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- 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 become fully cooked or roasted, reaching complete heat-induced effect; in the Quranic usage, of skins, to become thoroughly roasted or burned through.
The Quranic occurrence describes skins exposed to punishment. The flesh-cooking explanation and the rendering “roasted” belong to the same heat-completion sense, while the broader meanings of ripening and metaphorical maturity are treated separately.
- Lane · entry 43876
- Mufradāt · row 1450
Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:56word 9
“are roasted”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 4:56نَضِجَتْare roasted
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
نَضِجَ
To ripen or mature, especially of fruit, reaching a state fit for use or eating.
Used of fruit and similar produce; this is the ripening branch distinct from the Quranic heat-treatment usage.
- Lane · entry 43876
نَضِجَ
Of an ulcer or similar lesion, to ripen or suppurate.
A specialized bodily-process usage.
- Lane · entry 43876
نَضَّجَ
Of a pregnant female, to exceed the usual period of gestation without giving birth.
Reported of a she-camel and also applied to a woman; the construction describes prolonged pregnancy and delayed delivery.
- Lane · entry 43877
نَضَّجَ
In a reported expression, of a she-camel, to reach the utmost point of development with her milk.
This usage is explicitly reported as a disputed or possibly mistaken expression.
- Lane · entry 43877
أَنْضَجَ
To cause fruit to ripen or flesh to become thoroughly cooked, making it fit for use or eating.
Causative Form IV usage with fruit or flesh-meat; it may also describe the proper time as causing fruit to ripen.
- Lane · entry 43878
أَنْضَجَ
In a reported usage, to cause a plant or herbage to become shrivelled or blasted by cold.
This interpretation is presented as an unusual and contested application of the verb.
- Lane · entry 43878
أَنْضَجَ
To mature or make sound one's judgment or opinion.
Figurative Form IV usage, marked as tropical in the lexical evidence.
- Lane · entry 43878
أَنْضَجَ
In an idiom, to be unable to thoroughly cook even the slender part of a leg, hence to be weak, useless, or without competence.
The figurative evaluation belongs to the complete idiomatic expression, not to ordinary cooking alone.
- Lane · entry 43878
أَنْضَجَ
To mature an ulcer or cause an ulcer or similar lesion to suppurate.
Causative usage applied to an ulcer or comparable lesion.
- Lane · entry 43878
نُضْجٌ
Ripeness or maturity; the state of being thoroughly cooked.
A verbal noun used of fruit or flesh-meat and their completed condition.
- Lane · entry 43881
نَضِيجٌ
Ripe, mature, or thoroughly cooked, especially of fruit or flesh-meat.
Adjectival description of something that has reached full fitness for use or eating.
- Lane · entry 43882
نَضِيجٌ
Soundly mature or well-developed, of judgment or an affair; hence thoroughly or competently managed.
Figurative usage applied to judgment and to an affair or undertaking.
- Lane · entry 43882
مُنَضِّجٌ
A pregnant female that exceeds the usual period of gestation by about a month or fails to give birth within the expected year.
Applied especially to a she-camel; feminine forms and plural forms are also reported.
- Lane · entry 43886
مُنَضِّجٌ
A suppurative medicine.
The related form مُنْضِجٌ is reported as the more common form for this meaning.
- Lane · entry 43886
مِنْضَاجٌ
An iron instrument used for roasting flesh-meat.
A concrete instrument noun, synonymous with سَفُّودٌ.
- Lane · entry 43887
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The modern Quran location 4:56 is taken from QAC; the historical citation notation in the lexical evidence is not independently converted into a modern verse location.
The Form II milk expression is reported with an explicit judgment that it may be mistaken.
The Form IV interpretation involving cold-blasted vegetation is explicitly characterized as unusual.