Quranic root
نقع
n · q · ʿ
The evidence presents two distinct root branches: the settling, collecting, or remaining of a liquid, and a sound or cry.
The settling branch extends to stagnant water, soaking, infusions, collecting places, and related formations. A separate sound branch includes cries, raised voices, and figurative shouting. Neither root principle by itself establishes the Quranic noun's contextual meaning.
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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.
نَقْع
naqʿ
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
Selected Quran examples
Quran 100:4word 3
“dust”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 100:4نَقْعًۭاdust
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 18 Classical meanings
نَقَعَ
To remain, collect, or stagnate in a hollow or cavity; to remain long and become altered, including becoming yellow or spoiled.
Intransitive use, especially of water or another liquid.
- Lane · entry 32363
نَقَعَ
To steep, soak, or macerate a medicine in water until its colour changes.
Transitive use with a medicine or similar substance placed in water.
- Lane · entry 32363
نَقِيع
An infusion, beverage, or mash made by steeping something in water.
A noun for the resulting preparation.
- Lane · entry 32366
النَّقْعُ / النَّقِيعُ
Settled or collected water; also water abundant in a well.
A water-related nominal use distinct from the verbal sense of remaining or stagnating.
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مَنْقَعُ الْمَاءِ
A place where water remains and collects, stagnates, or becomes altered.
A place-name or noun of location for collected water.
- Lane · entry 32363
- Lane · entry 32370
مِنْقَع
A vessel or small stone cooking pot in which milk is placed for a child.
A specialized utensil sense.
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أَنْقُوعَة
The hollow or depression in a dish of tharīd where the gravy collects.
A culinary term for a depression that gathers liquid.
- Lane · entry 32369
سَمٌّ نَاقِعٌ
Poison that takes effect, kills, or remains fixed in the body.
Used in the cited expression for potent or deadly poison.
- Lane · entry 32367
أَنْقَعُ
More or most thirst-quenching.
An adjectival comparative or superlative use.
- Lane · entry 32368
مَنْقَعُ الْبُرْمِ
An old untwisted thread spun a second time and put into stone cooking pots.
A specialized expression; the lexical description is tied to this phrase.
- Lane · entry 32371
سَمٌّ مُنْقَعٌ
Poison made into a confection or prepared compound.
Used in the cited expression for prepared poison.
- Lane · entry 32371
شَرَّابٌ بِأَنْقُع
A person who repeatedly returns to or resumes an undertaking.
An idiomatic expression describing repeated recurrence to an affair.
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نَقِيعَة
Pure milk.
A specialized nominal use.
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نَقِيعَة
Property secured from plunder before the division.
A reported specialized use associated with spoils.
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نَقِيعَة
Food prepared for a person returning from a journey.
A hospitality term for food made for the traveller's arrival.
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نَقِيعَة
A she-camel slaughtered on behalf of several camels.
A specialized sacrificial or pastoral term.
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النَّقْعُ / النَّقِيعُ
A cry or shout; specifically, the sound of an ostrich. Of a voice, to rise or become loud.
This is the separate sound-related lexical branch, not the water-settling branch.
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نَقَّاع
A person who boasts of possessing what he does not have.
A figurative use explained through the image of loudly proclaiming it.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The sole Quran occurrence is contextually glossed as “dust,” but this packet contains no direct Lane or Mufradat evidence establishing dust as a lexical sense of the noun نَقْع. It is therefore not presented as a numbered Quranic sense.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The Quranic use at 100:4, glossed by the supplied contextual evidence as “dust,” remains unassigned as a form-level lexical sense because no supplied direct lexical source explains that meaning.