Quranic root
ثمر
th · m · r
Something generated from something else and gathered or formed, especially produce or fruit.
The concrete sense of fruit extends to fruit-bearing, increase and wealth, benefit or result, and several figurative extensions based on resemblance in form or productive outcome. Some conventional extensions, such as the full-moon expression, are lexically exceptional.
- Maqāyīs · row 1046
- Lane · entry 27523
- Mufradāt · row 210
- 2
- Quran-attested forms
- 5
- Quran senses
- 24
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
أَثْمَرَ
ʾathmara
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 2 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.
To put forth, bear, or produce fruit.
Used of a tree or other fruit-bearing thing; the Quranic occurrences express the general fruit-bearing event without specifying a separate ripeness stage.
- Lane · entry 27521
- Mufradāt · row 210
Selected Quran examples
Quran 6:99word 37
“it bears fruit”
Quran 6:141word 21
“it bears fruit”
ثَمَر
thamar
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 22 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.
Fruit or produce of trees, whether eaten or not.
Includes the collective or uncountable noun ثَمَر, its plural ثَمَرَات, and the singulative ثَمَرَة as represented by the merged Quranic form groups.
- Lane · entry 27523
- Mufradāt · row 210
Selected Quran examples
Quran 6:99word 35
“its fruit”
Quran 2:25word 17
“fruit”
Quran 18:34word 3
“fruit”
Quran 2:155word 10
“and [the] fruits”
Accumulated or acquired property and wealth.
Reported as an interpretation of ثَمَر in a Quranic passage, alongside the concrete fruit sense; the interpretation is especially associated with the passage at 18:34 in the Quran-focused lexical discussion.
- Lane · entry 27523
- Mufradāt · row 210
Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:34word 3
“fruit”
Gold and silver.
An attributed Quranic interpretation in the lexical tradition, explicitly noted as not being ordinary usage in the proper language; no modern verse location is assigned to the historical citation.
- Lane · entry 27523
Children, descendants, or offspring.
An attributed interpretation of the plural ثَمَرَات in a Quranic passage, distinct from the ordinary concrete fruit reading; no modern verse location is assigned to the historical citation.
- Lane · entry 27523
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:22ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِthe fruits
- 2:25ثَمَرَةٍۢfruit
- 2:126ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِfruits
- 2:155وَٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ ۗand [the] fruits
- 2:266ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ(of) [the] fruits
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 27 Classical meanings
ثَمَرَ
To be or become ripe.
Used of fruit or produce reaching ripeness.
- Lane · entry 27519
ثَمَرَ
To collect trees or shrubs for sheep or goats.
A specialized pastoral use.
- Lane · entry 27519
ثَمِرَ
To become abundant in wealth or to possess increasing wealth.
A figurative intransitive use concerning a person's property or resources.
- Lane · entry 27519
ثَمَّرَ
Of a plant, to shed its blossoms and set, organize, or compact its fruit.
Describes the formation and consolidation of fruit after flowering.
- Lane · entry 27520
ثَمَّرَ، ثَمِيرٌ
To show the incipient formation of butter in milk; or, of milk, to have formed visible butter clots before they collect.
A specialized dairy use referring to the early coagulation or appearance of butter.
- Lane · entry 27520
- Lane · entry 27528
ثَمَّرَ
To make wealth abundant or to increase and develop it.
A causative or transitive use concerning property.
- Lane · entry 27520
أَثْمَرَ
To enter or reach the fruit-bearing stage, including putting forth fruit that may be unripe or ripe or reaching the time for plucking.
Classical accounts distinguish among beginning to fruit, producing unripe or ripe fruit, and reaching the stage at which fruit can be gathered.
- Lane · entry 27521
أَثْمَرَ
To become abundant in wealth.
A figurative use applied to a person rather than to a fruit-bearing plant.
- Lane · entry 27521
أَثْمَرَ
In an idiomatic expression, to continue or endure indefinitely.
Restricted to the conventional expression recorded in the lexical evidence.
- Lane · entry 27521
أَثْمَرَ
To feed a person with fruits.
A transitive food-related use.
- Lane · entry 27521
ثَمَرٌ، ثَمَرَةٌ
A tree or shrub.
A specialized nominal use in which ثَمَرَة denotes an individual tree or shrub rather than its produce.
- Lane · entry 27523
ثَمَرَةٌ
Offspring or progeny; in an idiom, procreative capacity or sexual appetite.
The offspring sense is extended in the recorded expression to a person's ability or desire to procreate or engage in sexual intercourse.
- Lane · entry 27523
ثَمَرَةٌ
The profit, benefit, or resulting good of something, including an increase in property.
Figurative result language may describe the benefit of knowledge, good works, or another activity.
- Lane · entry 27523
- Mufradāt · row 210
ثَمَرَةٌ، ثَمَرٌ
The knot or terminal appendage of a whip.
A figurative extension based on the form and hanging of fruit from a tree.
- Lane · entry 27523
ثَمَرَةٌ
The tip or lower extremity of the tongue.
An anatomical figurative use.
- Lane · entry 27523
ثَمَرَةٌ
A man's prepuce.
Occurs in expressions concerning circumcision.
- Lane · entry 27523
ثَمَرَةٌ
The skin of the head.
An anatomical use recorded as an extended sense.
- Lane · entry 27523
ثَمَرَةُ القَلْبِ
The core or innermost part of the heart; figuratively, one's deepest affection or sincerest agreement.
The heart-expression carries both a literal anatomical image and idiomatic emotional or volitional meanings.
- Lane · entry 27523
ثَمَرَةٌ، ثَمَرٌ
A small portion or quantity of cloud in the sky.
A specialized figurative nominal use.
- Lane · entry 27523
ثَمِرٌ
Wealth blessed with increase, or much and abundant wealth.
An adjectival description of prosperous property.
- Lane · entry 27525
ثَمْرَاءُ
Fruit-bearing or abounding in fruit, of a tree or land.
Applied to a fruit-bearing tree or to land rich in fruit.
- Lane · entry 27526
ابْنُ ثَمِيرٍ
A full-moon night or a night with bright moonlight.
A fixed expression and lexical exception within the root's semantic family.
- Lane · entry 27528
ثَامِرُ الحِلْمِ
Perfect or complete in forbearance or clemency.
A figurative comparison with ripe fruit.
- Lane · entry 27530
الثَّامِرُ
The flower of the rose-coloured sorrel plant.
A specialized botanical noun.
- Lane · entry 27530
الثَّامِرُ
The lubia or dolichos plant.
A specialized botanical noun distinct from the general fruit sense.
- Lane · entry 27530
عَقْلٌ مُثْمِرٌ
A fruitful or productive intellect.
A figurative expression contrasting productive understanding with a barren intellect.
- Lane · entry 27532
مَثْمُورٌ
Abounding in wealth, of a people or company.
A passive-participial or adjectival description of collective prosperity.
- Lane · entry 27534
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The wealth, gold-and-silver, and children/descendants senses for ثَمَر or ثَمَرَات are attributed Quranic interpretations alongside the ordinary fruit sense; the historical Lane citations have not been converted into modern verse keys unless independently supplied by QAC.
The phrase in lane-unit:vmr:27525:g1:sub3 has uncertain root and spelling assignment and is preserved as ambiguous rather than treated as a secure ثمر meaning.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
lane-unit:vmr:27525:g1:sub3 contains a phrase glossed as lack of sweetness or agreeable disposition, but the evidence records a competing reading with ت (تمر), so its assignment to ثمر is not secure.