Quranic root
نضر
n · ḍ · r
A root oriented toward beauty, radiance, freshness, and purity.
The semantic field extends from becoming beautiful, bright, fresh, or green to causing radiance and well-being; the association with beauty and purity also appears in terms for precious metals and fine materials.
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- Quran-attested forms
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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.
نَضْرَةٌ
naḍrahun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Radiant beauty, freshness, or brightness; a visible glow associated with bliss and well-being.
In the Quranic expressions نَضْرَةً and نَضْرَةَ النَّعِيمِ, it denotes the radiance or fresh brightness characteristic of divine reward and enjoyment.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 76:11word 7
“radiance”
Quran 83:24word 4
“(the) radiance”
نَاضِرٌ
nāḍirun
- 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.
Radiant, beautiful, and bright; shining with the visible effects of enjoyment or well-being.
Used adjectivally of faces in the Quranic description of faces that are radiant on the Day of Resurrection.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 75:22word 3
“(will be) radiant”
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 11 Classical meanings
نَضُرَ
To be or become beautiful, bright, fresh, or pleasant; of a tree or its foliage, to become green; of a color, to become bright or vivid.
Applies to faces, trees, foliage, colors, and things generally; of a face, it may include freshness and fine, translucent skin.
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نَضُرَ
Of a person, to be in enjoyment or in a plentiful, pleasant, and easy state of life.
A figurative extension describing a person's condition rather than the physical brightness of the face.
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نَضَرَ
To make a face, tree, color, or other thing beautiful and bright.
A transitive causative use, especially with God as the subject; when the object is a face, the use may be figurative.
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نَضَّرَ
To make beautiful and bright; of a person, to grant enjoyment or a good and respected station.
The personal use concerns comfortable well-being or social standing, not necessarily facial beauty.
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نَضْرَةٌ
Enjoyment, a plentiful and pleasant life, prosperity, competence, or sufficiency.
A broader Classical Arabic noun sense, distinct from the Quranic sense of visible radiance.
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نَضْرَةٌ
Life or the condition of being alive.
A separately attested Classical Arabic noun use.
- Lane · entry 43927
نَضْرٌ / نَضَرٌ / نَضِيرٌ
Gold, especially gold valued for its purity and beauty; also silver or other pure material.
The term may be used of native or unwrought metal, wood, or anything characterized as pure.
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نَضْرٌ
A molten piece or lump of gold.
A specialized noun use for an individual molten piece of the metal.
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نَاضِرٌ
Intense, vivid, or glistening in color.
Used especially of green, and also of red, yellow, and other colors as an intensive adjective.
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نُضَارٌ
A tree whose wood is used to make yellow cups; by extension, a cup made from that wood.
The tree and the wooden vessel are distinguished by the construction in which the term occurs.
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نَضَرَ
To cause a person to have enjoyment or a plentiful, pleasant, and easy life; figuratively, to make his rank or station good among people.
A personal transitive use, distinct from making the face beautiful or bright; it concerns well-being or social standing rather than facial beauty.
- Lane · entry 43922
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic forms are kept distinct from broader Classical Arabic extensions such as comfortable life, prosperity, life, and precious metals. The active participle نَّاضِرَةٌ is presented under the normalized masculine citation form نَاضِرٌ.