Quranic root
سرج
s · r · j
A semantic orientation toward beauty, adornment, and luminous display.
The lexical network links the illuminating سِرَاج to brightness and beauty, the سَرْج to an animal's adornment, and several derived uses to making a face or thing beautiful.
- Maqāyīs · row 2405
- Mufradāt · row 678
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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.
سِرَاجٌ
sirājun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 4 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.
A light-giving source, especially the sun.
In Quranic usage, the term presents the sun as a lamp-like source of illumination.
- Lane · entry 40854
- Mufradāt · row 678
Selected Quran examples
An illuminating lamp, figuratively of a messenger.
Used in the Quranic description of the Prophet as a light-giving or illuminating lamp.
- Lane · entry 40854
Selected Quran examples
Quran 33:46word 5
“and (as) a lamp”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 4 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 27 Classical meanings
سَرَجَ
To lie or fabricate a lie.
A figurative or allegedly figurative use in the cited lexical material.
- Lane · entry 40842
سَرَجٌ
Brightness or shining.
An infinitival noun usage.
- Lane · entry 40842
سَرِجَ
To become beautiful or handsome.
Especially said of the beauty of the face; the use is reported with differing judgments about its antiquity or acceptability.
- Lane · entry 40842
سَرَّجَ
To make beautiful, adorn, decorate, or embellish.
May be applied to a face or to a thing; figuratively, it can mean to embellish or elucidate an affair or case.
- Lane · entry 40843
سَرَّجَ
To accommodate, adapt, or dispose someone or something toward a right course or outcome.
A figurative extension reported in the lexical material.
- Lane · entry 40843
سَرَّجَ
To forge a lie against someone or fabricate stories.
Used with عَلَى in the sense of lying against someone and of forging or embellishing reports.
- Lane · entry 40843
أَسْرَجَ
To light a lamp or wick, or to use a lamp as a means of illumination.
The object may be the lamp itself; the extended construction can describe lighting oneself or another with it.
- Lane · entry 40844
أَسْرَجَ
To saddle an animal or horse, or to make a saddle for it.
The saddle is bound upon the animal or horse.
- Lane · entry 40844
سَرْجَنَ
To manure land with dung.
A specialized derived verb formed from سِرْجِين.
- Lane · entry 40847
سَرْجٌ
A saddle or similar equipment belonging to a horse or other riding animal.
Also used in a proverb for an affair or condition that has become disordered or unsound.
- Lane · entry 40848
سُرْجَجٌ
Continuing or lasting, especially for a long time or forever.
An adjective describing continuance or permanence.
- Lane · entry 40849
سُرْجُوجٌ
Foolish or stupid.
An adjective applied to a person.
- Lane · entry 40850
سِرْجِينٌ
Dung used as manure, especially the dung of horses and other animals.
An arabicized loanword; the cited material also records the variant سِرْقِينٌ.
- Lane · entry 40851
سُرْجُوجَةٌ
Natural or innate disposition, nature, or manner of conduct.
Used of a person's characteristic nature or of people sharing one uniform disposition; the related form سِرْجِيجَةٌ has the same meaning.
- Lane · entry 40852
سِرَاجٌ
A lamp or its lighted wick; by extension, the lamp apparatus that contains or supports it.
The basic sense is a lighted wick, while the name is also conventionally applied to the vessel or place associated with it.
- Lane · entry 40854
سِرَاجٌ
The eye, metaphorically likened to a lamp.
A figurative comparison based on the eye's brightness.
- Lane · entry 40854
سِرَاجَةٌ
The craft or occupation of a saddler.
The profession of making or dealing in saddles.
- Lane · entry 40856
سُرَيْجِيَّةٌ
A designation for certain swords, either named after a smith called Surayj or characterized by abundant water and glistening, wavy grain.
The cited material records both explanations of the designation.
- Lane · entry 40857
سَرَّاجٌ
A saddler, maker or seller of saddles.
A person associated with making or selling سُرُوج.
- Lane · entry 40858
سَرَّاجٌ
A great or habitual liar.
May describe one who exaggerates or adds to his narration; also occurs in the expression سَرَّاجٌ مَرَّاجٌ.
- Lane · entry 40858
سَارِجٌ
Clear, white, and bright, especially of a forehead or side of the forehead.
A figurative adjective comparing the brightness to that of a lamp.
- Lane · entry 40859
سِيرَجٌ
Sesame oil.
An arabicized and reportedly vulgar form.
- Lane · entry 40860
أُسْرُوجَةٌ
A lie.
An explicitly cross-referenced noun for a fabricated statement.
- Lane · entry 40861
مُسْرَجٌ
Saddled; having a saddle bound upon it.
Applied to a horse or other riding animal.
- Lane · entry 40862
مَسْرَجَةٌ
A lamp or lamp vessel containing the wick and oil.
The cited material distinguishes this function from the object supporting a lamp, while reporting disagreement over the vowel assignment.
- Lane · entry 40863
مِسْرَجَةٌ
A stand or support on which a lamp or its vessel is placed.
The cited material reports variant vowel assignments for the lamp-vessel and support senses.
- Lane · entry 40863
مُسَرَّجٌ
Made beautiful or well-formed; specifically, a face beautified by God or a nose fine and even in shape.
The nose usage compares its slender, even form to a particular kind of sword.
- Lane · entry 40865
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Modern Quran locations and examples follow the supplied QAC occurrences; historical Lane citation conventions are not converted into modern verse references.
The literal lamp sense is kept under broader Classical Arabic, while the Quranic entry distinguishes the sun's illuminating-source use from the figurative messenger use.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
lane-unit:srj:40842:g3:main reports a Form I hair-plaiting use, but the source itself suspects a transcription for سرّحت; the assignment is therefore left unresolved.
lane-unit:srj:40842:g4:main records an alleged Form I saddle meaning that the source says is not found in the cited lexicons; it is not treated as an established Form I meaning.