Quranic root
وري
w · r · y
A lexically heterogeneous root with branches involving fire emerging from a firebrand, concealment or covering, and the far side of a reference point; the recorded words do not form a single uniform semantic class.
The evidence preserves meanings of fire emerging and bodily interior disease alongside causative fire-making, concealment, reciprocal or reflexive hiding, and the relational noun وَرَاءَ for what is behind or on the far side. وَرَاءَ also extends to what is beyond or after a reference point, while several independent nominal and idiomatic branches remain distinct.
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
وَارَى
wārā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form III
- Form
- III
- 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.
To hide, conceal, or cover something from view.
A transitive Form III use; the Quranic group includes active forms meaning to hide or cover and a passive form meaning to be concealed.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:31word 9
“to hide”
Quran 5:31word 20
“and hide”
Quran 7:20word 7
“was concealed”
Quran 7:26word 7
“it covers”
أَوْرَى
ʾawrā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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To make a firebrand produce fire; to ignite or kindle fire.
A causative fire-making use, especially of causing the fire of a zend or firebrand to issue.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 56:71word 4
“you ignite”
تَوَارَى
tawārā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VI
- Form
- VI
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
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To hide oneself, become concealed, or withdraw from sight.
An intransitive or reflexive concealment use; the subject becomes hidden rather than concealing an external object.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 16:59word 1
“He hides himself”
Quran 38:32word 10
“they were hidden”
مُورِيَة
mūriyah
- Part of speech
- Active 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.
Producing sparks or causing fire to issue.
An active participle describing something that produces sparks or brings forth fire; no particular object class is required by the lexical evidence.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 100:2word 1
“And the producers of sparks”
وَرَاءَ
warāʾa
- Part of speech
- Noun / locative
- Quran occurrences
- 24 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.
Behind, on the far side of, or beyond a reference point in space.
A relational noun or locative expression whose orientation depends on the reference point; what is on the other side may be translated as behind, ahead, or on the far side, including across a covering or barrier.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 33:53word 44
“behind”
Quran 14:16word 2
“Ahead”
Beyond, after, or outside a stated limit, object, or entitlement.
Used figuratively or temporally for what lies beyond something, what follows it, or what exceeds a prescribed scope.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:79word 12
“after them”
Quran 23:7word 3
“beyond”
Quran 2:91word 15
“(is) besides it”
Quran 4:24word 14
“(is) beyond”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:91وَرَآءَهُۥ(is) besides it
- 2:101وَرَآءَbehind
- 3:187وَرَآءَbehind
- 4:24وَرَآءَ(is) beyond
- 4:102وَرَآئِكُمْbehind you
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
وَرَى / وَرِيَ
To produce fire; for a firebrand or zend, to have its fire issue.
An intransitive Form I use with the firebrand as subject.
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وَرَّى
To conceal the intended matter by presenting another; to equivocate, allude ambiguously, or use an expression whose apparent meaning differs from the intended one.
Includes the constructions وَرَّى بِشَىْءٍ عَنْ شَىْءٍ and وَرَّى عَنْ كَذَا, as well as the verbal noun تَوْرِيَةٌ.
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وَرْيٌ
Purulent matter within the body; an abscess or severe ulcer discharging pus and blood.
A medical or bodily nominal use.
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وَرَائِي
A thing lying behind one as though it were a burden carried on one's back.
An idiomatic expression describing an encumbering matter that is behind or upon one.
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مِنْ وَرَاءِ
An aider or follower of someone.
In the construction فُلَانٌ مِنْ وَرَاءِ فُلَانٍ, the expression denotes support or following rather than simple location.
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مِنْ وَرَائِكَ
To pursue, watch, or lie in wait for someone.
An idiomatic use illustrated by اَللّٰهُ مِنْ وَرَائِكَ.
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وَرَاءٌ
A descendant beyond a person, specifically a grandchild or child's child.
A nominal genealogical use for offspring of a later generation.
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الوَرَى
Humanity or the people inhabiting the earth at a given time.
The term excludes those who have already passed away and those who will be born later.
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الوَارِي
Fat or fleshy, of meat.
An adjectival description of meat as plump or fatty.
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وَارِي الزَّنْدِ
Successful or prosperous.
A figurative idiom based on a firebrand that produces fire, contrasting with a firebrand that fails to do so.
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وَرَاءَكَ
Move back, step aside, or make room.
A fixed exhortative expression with an implied verb; it is not simply a statement of location.
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التَّوْرَاة
The revealed Book of Law associated with Moses.
A lexicalized noun for the scripture inherited from Moses.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
وَرَاءَ is relational: depending on viewpoint and reference point, Quran translations may say behind, ahead, after, beyond, or on the other side; these are contextual realizations of the same lexical item.
The Quranic مُورِيَات is presented under the normalized singular feminine active-participle citation form مُورِيَة.],
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