Quranic root
قعر
q · ʿ · r
A downward-reaching depth or bottom: the lowest or innermost extremity of a thing.
The basic depth-and-bottom notion extends to reaching or making a bottom, deep wells and vessels, figurative profundity, speech from the depth of the throat, and removal from a root or descent into the earth.
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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.
مُنْقَعِرٌ
munqaʿirun
- Part of speech
- Active participle · Form VII
- 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.
Uprooted, extirpated, and fallen prostrate, as though driven down into the earth and leaving no trace.
In the Quranic simile for the lower parts of palm trees, the form is explained either as uprooted from its root or as gone into the depth of the earth; both interpretations express complete removal.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 54:20word 6
“uprooted”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 54:20مُّنقَعِرٍۢuprooted
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 26 Classical meanings
قَعُرَ
To be deep, especially to have a deep bottom, as a well.
Intransitive usage describing the depth of a well or similar thing.
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قَعَرَ
To reach the bottom of a well by descending to it.
Used of descending through a well until its lowest point is reached.
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قَعَرَ
To make a well deep.
Transitive usage describing the deepening of a well.
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قَعَرَ
To drink a vessel or eat a dish down to its bottom.
A conventional extended usage for consuming all the contents to the lowest part of the vessel.
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قَعَرَ
To pull a tree from its root or cut down a palm tree from its root.
A transitive usage describing removal from the root.
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قَعَرَ
To throw someone down prostrate.
An explicitly marked extended usage.
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قَعَّرَ
To speak from the furthest part of the mouth or throat, producing a guttural delivery.
A Form II speech expression concerning the place and manner of articulation.
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أَقْعَرَ
To make a bottom for a well.
Form IV causative usage.
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تَقَعَّرَ
To go deep.
Form V usage describing movement or penetration toward depth.
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تَقَعَّرَ
To become prostrate and overturned.
An explicitly marked extended usage, applied to a person or thing that has fallen over.
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انْقَعَرَ
To die; in one idiom, to die leaving one's property behind.
An extended Form VII usage.
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قَعْرٌ
The bottom, lowest depth, or remotest interior of a thing; the depth of a well, river, or vessel, including the root or lowest part of a palm or similar thing.
The core noun of physical depth and lowest extremity.
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قَعْرُ البَيْتِ
The innermost part of a house; figuratively, keeping within one's house or being an intimate in it.
A conventional expression based on the innermost part of a house.
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قَعْرٌ
Figurative depth of judgment, examination, or speech.
Used of profound judgment or language that has, or lacks, depth.
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قَعْرٌ
A hollow or depression in the ground whose descent and ascent are difficult.
A geographic or terrain term.
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قَعْرٌ
A city or town.
A separately attested lexical use, especially in expressions referring to the people of a city.
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قَعْرٌ
A bowl or large serving dish.
A substantival vessel use.
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قَعَرٌ
Full, perfect, or profound intellect.
A figurative noun distinct from the physical bottom sense.
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قَعْرَةٌ
What covers the bottom of a bowl.
A vessel-related noun describing material or contents at the bottom.
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قَعْرَانُ
A deep drinking cup or bowl.
A derived vessel term equivalent in sense to a deepened or concave vessel.
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قَعْرَانُ
A vessel nearly full or containing something that covers its bottom.
An explicitly marked extended vessel usage.
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قَعِيرٌ
Deep or having a remote bottom, said of a well or bowl.
An adjectival description of a deep well or vessel.
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قَعِيرٌ
A specialized epithet for a woman's vulva; one report extends the term to a woman.
A rare anatomical and personal usage reported in the lexical tradition.
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أَقْعَرُ
Deeper.
Comparative adjective.
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مِقْعَرٌ
A person who reaches the bottoms or utmost points of things or affairs.
Applied figuratively to someone thorough or penetrating in dealing with matters.
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مِقْعَارٌ
Wide and deep, said of a cup.
An adjectival description of a cup or similar vessel.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic lexical explanation preserves two closely related reported interpretations: uprooted from the root and gone into the depth of the earth; they are presented as one removal-to-depth sense.
The public headword is normalized to the singular active participle مُنْقَعِرٌ, while QAC records the Quran occurrence as an inflected nominal form.