Quranic root
نضخ
n · ḍ · kh
Emission or application of liquid, especially in a stronger or more abundant degree, sometimes leaving a visible trace.
The lexical range extends from sprinkling or wetting that leaves an effect to forceful or copious emission, including gushing water, abundant rain, and prolific springs.
- Maqāyīs · row 4658
- Lane · entry 43903
- Lane · entry 43910
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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.
نَضَّاخَةٌ
naḍḍākhahun
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- 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.
Gushing forth copiously; abundant in water, describing a spring.
In the Quran, the feminine dual form describes two springs, emphasizing their abundant, forceful outflow.
- Lane · entry 43910
Selected Quran examples
Quran 55:66word 3
“gushing forth”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 55:66نَضَّاخَتَانِgushing forth
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 11 Classical meanings
نَضَخَ
To sprinkle or wet something with a liquid.
Compared with نَضَحَ, it is variously described as greater in amount, unintentional, or referring to the resulting wetting; these distinctions are reported variants among authorities.
- Lane · entry 43903
نَضَخَ
To sprinkle or scatter arrows among a group of people.
Used with people as the recipients and arrows as the means of the scattering.
- Lane · entry 43903
نَضَخَ
Of water, to boil up or gush vehemently from its source.
- Lane · entry 43903
نَاضَخَ
To sprinkle one another.
A reciprocal construction describing mutual sprinkling.
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اِنْتَضَخَ
Of water, to become sprinkled.
Describes water entering a sprinkled or splashed state.
- Lane · entry 43905
اِنْضَخَّ
Of water, to pour out or forth.
- Lane · entry 43906
نَضْخٌ
A mark or effect left on a garment or body by perfume, mire, blood, saffron, mud, or similar substances.
One lexical distinction contrasts this with نَضْحٌ, which is associated with water and other thin liquids.
- Lane · entry 43908
نَضْخَةٌ
A rain or shower of rain.
- Lane · entry 43909
نَضَّاخٌ
Copious or abundant rain.
Used in the expression غَيْثٌ نَضَّاخٌ.
- Lane · entry 43910
نَضَّاخَةُ الذِّفْرَى
A she-camel that sweats copiously at the ذِفْرَى, the area behind the ear.
A specialized descriptive expression for a camel and the specified anatomical location.
- Lane · entry 43910
مِنْضَخَةٌ
A sprinkler or squirting device.
- Lane · entry 43911
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quran attests the feminine dual inflection; the displayed headword is its normalized feminine singular citation form.
The reported contrast between نَضْخ and نَضْح varies among authorities, particularly regarding amount, intentionality, and residual effect.