Quranic root
وهج
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The root centers on the heat and glowing combustion of fire.
From the heat and kindling of fire, the semantic range extends to intense radiance, the strong diffusion of perfume, and the gleam of a jewel. In the Quranic adjective وَهَّاجٌ, burning intensity is associated with powerful illumination.
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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.
وَهَّاج
wahhāj
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- 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.
Intensely burning or glowing, giving off powerful light and associated heat.
In the Quranic expression سِرَاجًا وَهَّاجًا, it describes a lamp—interpreted in context as the sun—as intensely luminous and burning. The same adjective can describe a fiercely glowing star.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 78:13word 3
“burning”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 78:13وَهَّاجًۭاburning
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 10 Classical meanings
وَهَجَ
To burn or glow, especially of fire; also to be hot like the sun, or for a fire to burn perceptibly from a distance.
Form I verbal usage; the source applies it to fire and the sun.
- Lane · entry 45782
أَوْهَجَ
To kindle a fire or make it burn, possibly with intensified burning or glowing.
Form IV causative usage.
- Lane · entry 45784
تَوَهَّجَ
Of perfume, to give off a hot or strong odor.
Figurative Form V usage concerning the odor of perfume.
- Lane · entry 45785
تَوَهَّجَ
Of a jewel, to shine, glisten, or glow.
Figurative Form V usage concerning a jewel's radiance.
- Lane · entry 45785
وَهَجَ / تَوَهَّجَ
To be violently hot, of a day, night, or heat.
A heat-related verbal usage attested for Form I and Form V.
- Lane · entry 45782
- Lane · entry 45785
وَهِجٌ / وَهِجَةٌ
Violently hot, describing a day or night.
An adjectival description of extreme heat.
- Lane · entry 45786
وَهَجٌ
The burning or heat of fire.
Nominal usage for fire's heat or burning intensity.
- Lane · entry 45787
وَهَجٌ
The diffusion of perfume's odor, or its hot or strong odor.
Nominal usage concerning the spreading or intensity of perfume's smell.
- Lane · entry 45787
وَهَجٌ
The shining, glistening, or glowing of a jewel.
Nominal usage concerning a jewel's radiance.
- Lane · entry 45787
مُتَوَهِّجَةٌ
Describing a woman as sexually hot in the pudendum.
A specialized anatomical epithet applied to a woman.
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