Roots

Sealed95 occurrences حبب hbb To hold to someone or something with a strong attachment: this is love. The grain, from the same root, is what holds gathered within itself what will grow. Uses 1. أَحَبَ… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences حبر hbr The rabbi: the master versed in Scripture, charged with preserving it and bearing witness to it. The same letters also say, in the passive verb, to be filled with joy, wi… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حبس hbs To hold in suspense: to keep, for a time, a person from leaving or a thing from happening, until a set term. Uses 1. تَحْبِسُونَ, يَحْبِسُ → "to hold in suspense" : to ke… Read the entry → Sealed16 occurrences حبط hbt To collapse from within: what seemed to have substance loses all weight and no longer counts. Said of the works of one who disowns, denies or associates. Uses 1. حَبِطَ,… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حبك hbk To weave in crossing lines: a close-knit weft, said of the sky and its interwoven paths. Uses 1. ٱلْحُبُك → "interwoven paths" : the crossing trajectories that make the s… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences حبل hbl The rope: what links by holding. The text shows it literally, a rope of fiber that one throws or ties, and figuratively, a rope stretched from God and from people, to whi… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حتم htm The ruling that is not revoked: what is set as bound to be fulfilled, without exception. Uses 1. حَتْمًا مَّقْضِيًّا → "an irrevocable sentence" : what the Guardian has s… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حثث hthth To press on without respite: a movement that dogs what it pursues and leaves it no rest. Uses 1. حَثِيثًا → "relentlessly" : said of the night pursuing the day. «يَطْلُبُ… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences حجب hjb What stands between two parties and cuts off sight as well as speech: the veil. Uses 1. حِجَاب (between two parties) → "a veil" : what separates two places or two persons… Read the entry → Sealed33 occurrences حجج hjj To head deliberately toward a goal: toward the House, it is the Hajj; against an opponent, it is the argument set against him and the dispute; the cycle that brings the s… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences حجر hjr What stops by its firmness: stone, and the boundary one does not cross, set by decree, by an enclosure or by oneself. Uses 1. حِجَارَة, ٱلْحَجَر → "stone(s)", "the rock"… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حجز hjz To stand between two things to keep them apart: the partition that keeps two waters from mingling, or the man who stands as a partition to defend another. Uses 1. حَاجِز… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حدب hdb What rises and swells on the ground: the height, from which one comes down. Uses 1. حَدَب → "height" : any rise of the ground, from which a flood spreads. «وَهُم مِّن كُل… Read the entry → Sealed36 occurrences حدث hdth What comes about and is reported: speech that passes from one person to another, the event that happens, what one gives rise to. Uses 1. حَدِيث → "discourse" : speech tha… Read the entry → Sealed25 occurrences حدد hdd To mark a clear line that separates: the limit one does not cross, iron that cuts, and, in the verb, to stand on the other side of the line facing someone, to set oneself… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences حدق hdq The enclosed garden: a planted and surrounded expanse, tended for what it yields. Uses 1. حَدَآئِق → "enclosed gardens" : always in the plural, within an enumeration of p… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences حذر hdhr To be on one's guard before a danger one sees coming: the vigilance that takes its precautions, and not fear. Uses 1. حَذِرَ, ٱحْذَرْ, يَحْذَرُ → "to beware", "to be wary… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences حرب hrb Armed confrontation: war. The root also names the oratory, a place of retreat for the service of God, which keeps nothing of the warlike sense. Uses 1. حَرْب → "war" : th… Read the entry → Sealed14 occurrences حرث hrth To till: to open the earth for cultivation; the tilth also names the field so worked. Uses 1. ٱلْحَرْث → "the tilth" : the worked field, a good that one lists, keeps or l… Read the entry → Sealed15 occurrences حرج hrj The narrowness that tightens: the discomfort that weighs on the chest or on conduct. The text names it mostly to say that it imposes none. Uses 1. حَرَج → "discomfort" :… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حرد hrd Stubborn resolve: setting out sure of oneself, leaving no room for doubt or for others. Uses 1. حَرْد → "headstrong" : the state of those who set out decided to do what t… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences حرر hrr Independence: depending on no one, being released from what holds. Hence the independent one, the person whose independence is restored when a debt bound him, the child m… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حرس hrs To keep watch over a place so as to forbid access to it: the posted watch that stays awake. Uses 1. حَرَسًا → "sentinels" : the watch of the sky, with the projectiles tha… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences حرص hrs To hold strongly to a thing and cling to it: to life, to fairness, to the good or the guidance of others, without that attachment being enough to obtain it. Uses 1. حَرَص… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences حرض hrd To push to the extreme: to incite others to full commitment, or to be oneself worn down to the limit. Uses 1. حَرَّضَ → "to incite" : to push others to full effort, here… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences حرف hrf To carry a thing out of its place, to the side: to displace a word from its context, to move aside in battle, to obey askew. Uses 1. حَرَّفَ, يُحَرِّفُونَ → "to displace… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences حرق hrq To destroy by fire: to give a thing over to the flames, or the fire itself as it consumes beyond return. Uses 1. حَرَّقَ, ٱحْتَرَقَ → "to burn" : to give a person or an o… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حرك hrk To set an organ in motion; the text uses it only for the tongue that stirs to hasten the word received. Uses 1. لَا تُحَرِّكْ → "do not move" : to stir the tongue before… Read the entry → Sealed83 occurrences حرم hrm To set a limit. The text rules it by what it does to its object: it guards it against harm, it keeps it from use, or it leaves someone short of it. Uses 1. ٱلْحَرَام, حُر… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حرى hra To seek with care, aiming true: the rectitude one sets as one's aim. Uses 1. تَحَرَّىٰ → "to seek" : to aim deliberately at something and apply oneself to it. «فَأُو۟لَٰٓ… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences حرير hryr Silk: the precious fabric with which the inhabitants of the Garden are clothed. Uses 1. حَرِير → "silk" : the garment of the Garden, given as recompense. «وَلِبَاسُهُمْ ف… Read the entry → Sealed20 occurrences حزب hzb The party: a group that ranges itself under an allegiance and is named by it; in the plural, blocs each welded by what it holds to and set against another: parties divide… Read the entry → Sealed42 occurrences حزن hzn Grief: the pain that weighs on one who has lost, or who sees loss coming. Uses 1. حَزِنَ, يَحْزَنُ, لَا تَحْزَنْ → "to grieve" : to feel the pain; almost always negated o… Read the entry → Sealed109 occurrences حسب hsb To count: to make the count of a thing, to measure its quantity, to hold it as true, or to hold it as sufficient. Uses 1. حَسِبَ, يَحْسَبُ → "to think", "to take for" : t… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences حسد hsd To envy: to want for oneself the good another has received, to the point of wishing that he lose it. Uses 1. حَسَدَ, يَحْسُدُ → "to envy" : to hold against someone what h… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences حسر hsr To be worn out to the point of dejection: the desolation that seizes one before an irreversible loss, and strength or sight emptied by effort; negated, the word states an… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences حسس hss Sensation: to grasp a presence through the senses, or to deprive of it. Uses 1. أَحَسَّ, تُحِسُّ → "to perceive" : to grasp through the senses a presence or a danger. «فَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حسم hsm To cut clean and without remainder: what follows on without interruption until everything is cut off. Uses 1. حُسُومًا → "in succession" : days that follow one another wi… Read the entry → Sealed194 occurrences حسن hsn The beauty of what is well done: to do good, and what is beautiful because it is accomplished as it should be. Uses 1. أَحْسَنَ, ٱلْمُحْسِنُونَ → "to do good", "those who… Read the entry → Sealed43 occurrences حشر hshr To gather: to make what was scattered converge toward a single point, whether beings, an army or a crowd. Uses 1. حَشَرَ, يَحْشُرُ, نَحْشُرُ → "to gather" : God gathers b… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences حصب hsb What is hurled or thrown in mass: the stones a storm drives, or what is thrown into the fire to feed it. Uses 1. حَاصِب → "a storm of stones" : the wind laden with stones… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حصحص hshs To come out at once, in full brightness: the truth that shows itself entire, with nothing left covering it. Uses 1. حَصْحَصَ → "to break out" : the moment when truth show… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences حصد hsd To harvest: to cut in a single stroke what has grown; the harvest of grain, and the image of a land, a city or a people mown down entirely. Uses 1. حَصَدَ, حَصَاد → "to h… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences حصر hsr To hem in within limits that forbid free movement: the impediment that stops a journey, the siege, the constrained chest, continence, the enclosure. Uses 1. أُحْصِرَ → "t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حصل hsl To bring out what was enclosed within, so as to make it manifest. Uses 1. حُصِّلَ → "to be drawn out" : what is in the chests, brought to light. «وَحُصِّلَ مَا فِى ٱلصُّد… Read the entry → Sealed18 occurrences حصن hsn To protect behind a solid rampart: the fortress, the coat of mail, or the marital bond that guards the wife. Uses 1. ٱلْمُحْصَنَٰت → "the women protected by the marital b… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences حصى hsa To enumerate to the end: an exact and complete count, which lets nothing escape. Uses 1. أَحْصَىٰ (God) → "to enumerate" : the count God keeps of beings, deeds and every… Read the entry → Sealed25 occurrences حضر hdr To be there, on the spot, at the moment a thing takes place; in the form that makes come, to bring someone or something so that it is there. Uses 1. حَضَرَ → "to present… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences حضض hdd To urge others to act by an insistent word. Uses 1. يَحُضُّ عَلَى, تَحَٰٓضُّونَ عَلَى → "to urge" : in all three uses, to urge the feeding of the destitute. «وَلَا يَحُضُ… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حطب htb The wood one carries to the fire to feed it. Uses 1. ٱلْحَطَب, حَطَبًا → "firewood" : fuel: carried by a woman toward the fire that awaits her, or become what the deviant… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حطط htt To let a weight fall: to set down what was weighing. Its only use is the word asked of the sons of Israel, answered by the forgiveness of faults. Uses 1. حِطَّةٌ → "Unbur… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences حطم htm To break into pieces under a crushing pressure: the trampled ant, the plant reduced to debris, the Crusher. Uses 1. حَطَمَ → "to crush" : to grind under weight, without e… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حظر hzr To fence in, to hold within a limit: the fence, and what is restricted. Uses 1. مَحْظُور → "restricted" : held within a limit; the text denies it of God's endowment. «وَم… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences حظظ hzz The share that falls to someone: a determined measure, of goods, of reminder or of favor. Uses 1. حَظّ → "share" : the assigned measure, which one receives, loses or is r… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حفد hfd The descent that extends the line beyond the sons: the grandchildren. Uses 1. حَفَدَة → "grandchildren" : the generation after the sons, daughters included. «وَجَعَلَ لَك… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حفر hfr To dig: the hollow made in the ground, and the return, by the path already dug, to the state one started from. Uses 1. حُفْرَة → "a pit" : the hollow one was about to fal… Read the entry → Sealed44 occurrences حفظ hfz To watch over a thing so that it is neither lost, nor altered, nor harmed. Uses 1. حَفِظَ, يَحْفَظُ → "to preserve" : to keep intact: an oath, one's private parts, a brot… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حفف hff To surround on all sides: to be arranged in a circle around a center. Uses 1. حَفَّ → "to surround" : to place one thing in a circle around another. «وَحَفَفْنَٰهُمَا بِن… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences حفو hfw To give someone or something an attention carried to the end: attentiveness toward a person, thorough knowledge of a thing, the request that presses. Uses 1. حَفِىّ بِـ →… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حقب hqb A long period left without measure: duration that is not counted. Uses 1. حُقُب, أَحْقَاب → "a prolonged period", "prolonged periods" : a long duration, with no number or… Read the entry → Sealed287 occurrences حقق hqq The true: what is grounded in reality and asserts itself, as a fact that proves true or as a right that is due. Uses 1. ٱلْحَقّ → "the truth" : the real opposed to falseh… Read the entry → Sealed210 occurrences حكم hkm To judge with mastery and to make a thing unassailable: the judgment that closes a dispute, the wisdom that judges rightly, the sign that nothing can twist. Uses 1. حَكَم… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences حلف hlf To take an oath: to pledge one's word with God as guarantor, most often to cover oneself. Uses 1. حَلَفَ, يَحْلِفُ بِٱللَّهِ → "to take oaths" : the act of swearing befor… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences حلق hlq The narrow passage and the close cut: shaving the head at the end of the pilgrimage, and the throat, through which the breath withdraws. Uses 1. حَلَقَ, مُحَلِّقِينَ → "t… Read the entry → Sealed51 occurrences حلل hll To untie what holds bound: to lift a limit, and the thing is permitted; to undo a knot; at the end of a road, to unbind oneself and halt, hence the place one reaches, the… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences حلم hlm To master oneself: to hold back one's reaction to an offence without punishing at once, out of self-mastery and not out of powerlessness; the same word names the age at w… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences حلى hla To ornament: to add to a body what adorns it without being part of it; the ornament one wears. Uses 1. حِلْيَة, حُلِىّ → "ornament" : what one wears: drawn from the sea,… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences حمء hm' Dark, wet mud, between water and earth: the matter from which the human is shaped, and the murky water where the sun seems to set. Uses 1. حَمَإٍ مَّسْنُونٍ → "molded mud… Read the entry → Sealed68 occurrences حمد hmd To praise: to acknowledge aloud a quality or a favour, and to refer it to the one who is its author. Uses 1. ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ → "Praise be to God" : the formula that ope… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences حمر hmr The root carries two nouns with no link of meaning: red, a vivid colour, and the donkey, the beast that carries. Uses 1. حُمْر (the colour) → "red" : one colour among tho… Read the entry → Sealed64 occurrences حمل hml To carry: to take a weight upon oneself and bear it, whether matter, a child to be born, an entrusted deposit or a fault. Uses 1. حَمَلَ, يَحْمِلُ → "to carry", "to bear"… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences حمم hmm Intense heat: water brought to the boil, and the friend whose bond is warm. Uses 1. حَمِيم (water) → "boiling water" : the burning liquid of the punishment, drunk or pour… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences حمى hma The heat that burns and keeps at bay: fire raised to its height, the passion that defends one's clan, the beast set in reserve out of reach. Uses 1. حَامِيَة, يُحْمَىٰ →… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حنث hnth To break an oath: to violate the commitment one has sworn. Uses 1. تَحْنَثْ → "to break one's oath" : to violate a sworn oath; here, the oath is kept by a gesture. «وَلَا… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حنجر hnjr The throat: the highest point to which the core rises when anguish is extreme. Uses 1. ٱلْحَنَاجِر → "the throats" : always in the image of the cores rising up to them. «… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حنذ hndh To roast over strong heat: meat cooked through, ready to be served. Uses 1. حَنِيذ → "roasted" : the dish already ready, served without delay. «فَمَا لَبِثَ أَن جَآءَ بِع… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences حنف hnf To incline away from dispersion toward a single axis: to be wholly turned toward God, associating nothing with Him. Uses 1. حَنِيف → "wholly turned toward God" : the orie… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حنك hnk To take by the jaw: to hold in hand as one leads a mount. Uses 1. لَأَحْتَنِكَنَّ → "I shall surely seize" : Iblis's claim to hold in hand the descendants of the human. «… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حنن hnn Tenderness: the inclination of the heart that goes out to the other, given as a quality. Uses 1. حَنَان → "a tenderness" : a quality of the heart received from God, joine… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حنين hnyn Proper noun. The text so names the day of a battle in which the believers, confident in their number, were put to flight. The translation writes "Hunayn". Uses 1. حُنَيْن… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حوب hwb A grave fault that weighs: the wrong done to those who cannot defend themselves. Uses 1. حُوبًا → "a great crime" : the grave fault, said of the property of orphans devou… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences حوت hwt The fish: three accounts use it, always for the animal itself, without specifying the species. Uses 1. حُوت → "the fish" : the animal in the account of Moussa and in that… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences حوج hwj Need: what is lacking within and one seeks to fill, named without being detailed. Uses 1. حَاجَة → "need" : a need lodged in the Self or in the chest, which one satisfies… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حوذ hwdh To take a full hold over someone: to seize him. Uses 1. ٱسْتَحْوَذَ عَلَىٰ → "to take hold of" : to hold another wholly in one's hand. «ٱسْتَحْوَذَ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلشَّيْطَٰن… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences حور hwr To return: to go back to the starting point, and speech that goes back and forth between two persons. Uses 1. يَحُورَ → "to return" : to go back to where one set out from… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حوش hwsh To set apart: the formula حَٰشَ لِلَّهِ sets aside every thought of evil, taking God as witness, and serves to exonerate. Uses 1. حَٰشَ لِلَّهِ → "Far be it from God!" :… Read the entry → Sealed28 occurrences حوط hwt To encompass: to surround on every side, so that nothing escapes; said of God's power, of His knowledge, and of what closes in on man and leaves him no way out. Uses 1. م… Read the entry → Sealed25 occurrences حول hwl To turn around: to surround a point, to come between two terms, to change place, or to return to the same day after a year. Uses 1. حَوْل → "around" : the space and the b… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences حوى hwa To contain by enveloping: the entrails that envelop, the plant that contracts and darkens as it dries. Uses 1. ٱلْحَوَايَا → "the entrails" : what, in the body, contains… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حيد hyd To step aside to avoid: the deliberate dodge before what one refuses to face. Uses 1. تَحِيدُ → "to shun" : the dodge kept up over time, which death comes to stop. «ذَٰلِ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حير hyr To be disoriented: to turn about without knowing where to go, having lost one's way. Uses 1. حَيْرَان → "bewildered" : the state of one whom the Diverters have lured off… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حيز hyz To draw together toward a place or a group: to withdraw so as to join one's own. Uses 1. مُتَحَيِّزًا إِلَىٰ → "a withdrawal toward" : to leave a position in order to joi… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences حيص hys To get out of trouble: the escape, which the text names only to deny it. Uses 1. مَحِيص → "escape" : the way by which one would get out of trouble; always denied or quest… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences حيض hyd The menstrual flow: menstruation, a time of the woman that calls for regard, not exclusion. Uses 1. ٱلْمَحِيض → "menstruation" : the time of the flow, and the flow itself… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences حيف hyf To lean against a party in judgment, to the detriment of the one it concerns. Uses 1. يَحِيفَ عَلَى → "to lean against" : judgment that leans to the detriment of the one… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences حيق hyq To close in upon someone from every side: what he hurled at others comes back to envelop him. Uses 1. حَاقَ بِ, يَحِيقُ بِ → "to envelop" : always an evil outcome that st… Read the entry → Sealed35 occurrences حين hyn A circumscribed time: the moment when a thing happens, or the bounded span it occupies. Uses 1. حِين (noun) → "a time" : a bounded span, most often in إِلَىٰ حِينٍ or حَت… Read the entry → Sealed187 occurrences حيى hya Life: to be alive, to give life, to give life back. From life come the greeting, which wishes it to the other, and modesty, the restraint of the living being before what… Read the entry →