Quranic root
وفر
w · f · r
A root oriented toward fullness, completeness, abundance, and the absence of deficiency.
The basic idea of fullness develops into abundance, an undiminished or complete state, and related applications such as abundant hair, complete hides, preservation of honor, and giving a due in full.
- Maqāyīs · row 5172
- Mufradāt · row 1595
- Lane · entry 45513
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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.
مَوْفُورٌ
mawfūrun
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- 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.
Complete and undiminished; full or ample, with nothing lacking.
In the Quranic construction جَزَاءً مَوْفُورًا, it describes the recompense as fully complete or undiminished.
- Mufradāt · row 1595
- Lane · entry 45523
- Lane · entry 45526
Selected Quran examples
Quran 17:63word 10
“ample”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 17:63مَّوْفُورًۭاample
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 12 Classical meanings
وَفَرَ
To be or become full, complete, whole, comprehensive, or abundant; to be without deficiency.
Used of things, property, herbage, or collections of goods and furnishings.
- Lane · entry 45513
وَفَرَ عِرْضَهُ / وَفَّرَهُ
To preserve or guard someone's honor, dignity, or reputation unimpaired; to refrain from reviling or faultfinding.
A figurative construction with عِرْضٌ or a similar expression for honor and reputation.
- Lane · entry 45513
وَفَرَهُ
To make something full, complete, whole, or abundant, or to leave it undiminished.
Includes making a garment or skin whole, supplying food or property fully, giving someone the whole of a right or due, and leaving hair abundant; the related forms وَفَّرَ and أَوْفَرَ are cross-referenced to this use.
- Lane · entry 45513
- Lane · entry 45514
- Lane · entry 45515
وَفَرَهُ عَطَاءَهُ
To restore or return a gift to its giver, whether from contentment with it or from considering it little.
A specialized transitive construction concerning the return of an offered gift.
- Lane · entry 45513
تَوَفَّرَ عَلَيْهِ
To be regardful of what pertains to someone, honoring the obligations owed to him, and to maintain loving intercourse or companionship with him.
A figurative construction with عَلَيْهِ.
- Lane · entry 45516
تَوَفَّرَ عَلَى كَذَا
To direct one's purpose, intention, determination, or resolution toward something.
A construction with عَلَى for focused intention or resolve.
- Lane · entry 45516
وَفْرٌ / وُفُورٌ
Fullness, completeness, abundance, or copiousness; abundant property, goods, or furnishings, and by extension richness or competence.
May describe property, goods, or land whose herbage remains abundant and undiminished, and may be used more generally for comprehensive abundance.
- Lane · entry 45519
- Lane · entry 45522
وَفْرَةٌ
A quantity or style of hair collected on the head or hanging to the ears, with its extent described as reaching toward or to the earlobe.
A conventional designation in the terminology of hair length and arrangement.
- Lane · entry 45521
وَافِرٌ
Full, complete, whole, abundant, or copious; also numerous when applied to people.
Applied to property, vegetation, land, recompense, hair, or a complete hide or water-bag; the listed objects illustrate its uses rather than restricting them.
- Lane · entry 45523
وَافِرٌ
Large-eared or having a large ear-lobe.
An anatomical application describing the size of an ear or its lobe.
- Lane · entry 45523
الوَافِرُ
The fourth metrical pattern of classical Arabic prosody.
A technical prosodic term, named in relation to the fullness of its metrical feet.
- Lane · entry 45523
مُوَفَّرٌ
Left or maintained in an excellent, sound, or unimpaired condition.
Occurs in the idiomatic expression عَلَى أَحْسَنِ مُوَفَّرٍ.
- Lane · entry 45525
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quran occurrence is supplied as the inflected form مَوْفُورًا; the public headword is normalized to the passive-participle citation form مَوْفُورٌ.
The Lane cross-reference to اِسْتَوْفَاهُ belongs to the separately rooted wfy entry and is not treated as independent lexical evidence for this root.