Quranic root
نطح
n · ṭ · ḥ
The root centers on striking or colliding with the horns, with extensions to facing one another, conflict, ominous encounters, and resulting hardship.
The physical act of horn-striking develops into reciprocal collision and figurative contention; what confronts one from the front can become an omen, and severe events are described as blows or clashes.
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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.
نَطِيحَة
naṭīḥah
- Part of speech
- Noun · lexicalized passive participle
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Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
An animal gored by another animal's horns and thereby killed.
In the Quranic dietary context, نَطِيحَة is a substantivized designation for livestock killed by goring; it is listed among animals whose flesh is prohibited because of the manner of death.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:3word 15
“and that which is gored by horns”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 5:3وَٱلنَّطِيحَةُand that which is gored by horns
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 13 Classical meanings
نَطَحَ
To strike another with the horn.
The basic transitive use, especially of a ram or other horned animal striking another creature.
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نَطَحَهُ
To push or thrust someone away and remove him.
A figurative extension of striking or driving someone off.
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نَاطَحَ
For two animals to strike one another with their horns.
A reciprocal construction used of rams, he-goats, and similar horned animals.
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نِطَاحٌ
Contention or dispute likened to the clashing of two rams.
A figurative use applied, among others, to contention between learned men or between merchants.
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نَاطَحَ
To face, confront, or stand opposite another.
A dialectal use, especially reported for the Hijaz, in which نِطَاحٌ can denote مقابلة, facing or confrontation.
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تَنَاطَحَ
To clash or dash together.
Used of waves and torrents, and by extension of combatants clashing in battle.
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نَطِيحٌ
An animal or bird that comes toward one from in front and is treated as an omen.
The term may refer to birds or wild animals encountered from before one, whose course is used to augur good or evil.
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نَطِيحٌ
An unfortunate or unlucky person.
A figurative extension from the ominous creature or encounter.
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نَطِيحٌ
A horse with a distinctive facial marking regarded as unlucky.
The term is applied to a horse whose blaze reaches one ear or whose forehead has two disliked circular or spiral hair-curls.
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نَطَّاحٌ
A ram that strikes repeatedly with its horn; figuratively, a person who pushes or thrusts persistently or vehemently.
The intensive form describes repeated or forceful horn-striking and its figurative application to a person.
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نَاطِحٌ
A difficulty, affliction, calamity, or other distressing event.
Used in expressions for a hardship that befalls someone, including the hardships of fortune.
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النَّطْحُ، النَّاطِحُ
The two stars of Aries associated with the horns of the Ram, also treated as a lunar mansion.
The astronomical name may occur with or without the definite article; its rising was traditionally associated with prognostication.
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نَاطِحٌ
In the expression مَا لَهُ نَاطِحٌ وَلَا خَابِطٌ, a sheep or goat, contrasted with a camel.
This is a specialized idiomatic noun use within the cited expression.
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