Mashrabaمشربة

فيضThe easy, natural flowing of a thing. (root fyd)

الفاء والياء والضاد أصل صحيح واحد يدل على جريان الشيء بسهولة ثم يقاس عليه

Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-lugha · English rendering

فيض
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The words of ف ي ض that our sources attest: the root's letters in green, the added letters in gold.

19 words4 verbs3 verbal nouns4 participles1 place or instrument3 intensives and elatives3 other nouns1 plural

  • أَفَاضَspill; overfill
  • فاضَit overflowed
  • فَيْضriver, in general
  • فَيَضانflood; deluge
  • مَفِيضoutlet; vent
The whole family7 groups, by pattern; tap a pattern to see what it does
Verbs4فاضَ · أَفَاضَ · تفيّضَ

The root as an action: the bare Form I, and the Forms made by adding letters before, inside or after the root.grammar →

Verbal nouns3فَيْض · فُيُوض · تَفْوِيض

The action itself, named as a noun (maṣdar).grammar →

  • فَيْضriver, in generalLaneForm I · Lane: inf. n.library ×9LaneIbn Fāris
  • فُيُوضForm I · Lane: inf. n.LaneIbn Fāris
  • تَفْوِيضauthorization; delegation of authorityautoForm IIlibrary ×1
Participles4فَائِض · مُسْتَفَاض · مُسْتَفِيض

The one who does it, and the one it is done to.grammar →

  • فَائِضwatering-trough fullLaneactive, Form ILane
  • مُسْتَفَاضpassive, Form XLane
  • مُسْتَفِيضone who asks for the pouring out of waterLaneactive, Form XLane
  • مُفَاضpassive, Form IVLane
Place, time and instrument1مَفِيض

Where or when it happens, and what it is done with: the m- nouns.grammar →

  • مَفِيضoutlet; ventautonoun of place or timelibrary ×4
Intensives, qualities and the elative3فَيَضان · فَيَّاض · فَيُوض

The quality carried far, held as a trait, or compared.grammar →

  • فَيَضانflood; delugeautointensive (faʿlān)library ×5
  • فَيَّاضriver containing much waterLaneintensive (faʿʿāl)library ×3Lane
  • فَيُوضintensive (faʿūl)LaneIbn Fāris
Other nouns3فَيُوضَى · فَيْضَى · فَيْضُوضَى

Nouns on other patterns; their meaning is learned word by word.grammar →

  • فَيُوضَىnounLane
  • فَيْضَىnounLane
  • فَيْضُوضَىnounLane
Plurals1فُيُوض

Broken plurals rebuild the word on a new pattern; sound plurals add an ending.grammar →

Why this shape?What each of the 15 patterns does

What each pattern does. The pattern gives a tendency, not a rule: many words have drifted into meanings of their own.

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مَفْعَلَةف ي ضمَفْيَضَة

Not in our sources. A possible shape, not a word we can show: the Quran, the library and Lane do not have it for this root.

Place noun with -a. The place noun with the feminine -a. Sometimes it is only a variant of mafʿal; often it names the place where a thing is found in abundance (maʾsada, 'a place full of lions'). So maktab is the place of writing, and maktaba, where writings are gathered: a library, a bookshop. Our summary

But: maktaba is not in our classical dictionaries for k-t-b: Lane and al-Jawharī give maktab ('a school'), none gives maktaba. Its sense of 'library, bookshop' fits the pattern of abundance, but that is our reading of the pattern, not a classical entry. Many mafʿala words are single items of usage (maqbara 'cemetery'), which the grammarians call heard, not formed by rule.

The grammarians on this pattern (4)
  • ما يكون مفعلة لازمة لها الهاء والفتحة … وذلك إذا أردت أن تكثر الشيء بالمكان، وذلك قولك: أرض مسبعة، ومأسدة

    Chapter on what is mafʿala, with the -a and the a-vowel always: that is when you mean that a thing abounds in a place, as you say 'a land of many beasts of prey (masbaʿa), of many lions (maʾsada)'

    Sībawayh (d. c. 180/796), al-Kitāb, ed. ʿAbd al-Salām Hārūn, 3rd ed. (Cairo: al-Khānjī, 1988), 4:94 · OpenITI line 21027–21028 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • و نحو المظنة و المقبرة فتحا و ضما ليس بقياس

    and words like maẓinna and maqbara (with a or u) are not by rule

    Ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249), al-Shāfiya fī ʿilm al-taṣrīf, ed. Ḥasan Aḥmad al-ʿUthmān (Mecca: al-Maktaba al-Makkiyya, 1995), 1:30 · OpenITI line 223 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • “designate the place where the object signified by the noun from which they are formed, is found in large numbers or quantities” Wright, Grammar I, §247, p. 148 ↗ · on nouns of abundance, maf'ala · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain
  • “Nouns of time and place not unfrequently take the feminine form” Wright, Grammar I, §225, p. 128 ↗ · on maf'ala as a variant of maf'al · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain

This root has a weak or doubled letter, so real words change shape (qāla → qāʾil, not qāwil); the machine pours the letters in as they are, and matches attested words by their regular pattern.

About thisWhat “attested” means here; the sources

Attested means found in our data: the Quranic Arabic Corpus (lemmas, verb Forms, participles, verbal nouns, plurals), the library's words (automatic analysis), Lane's Lexicon (his headwords, the Forms he numbers, the verbal nouns and plurals he names) and Ibn Fāris's entry. Nothing is generated for this list. Meanings are Lane's first gloss in his entry, or else the analyser's gloss (“auto”). Vowelling follows the corpus, then Lane, then the analyser; verbs are given in the regular perfect. Lane's Lexicon thins out after qāf, and a few of his entries cover several roots at once: those roots show no Lane. The patterns, written with ف ع ل, are computed by us.

English: AI translation
  • al-Khalīl · 170Fāḍa al-māʾ wa-l-damʿ wa-l-maṭar wa-l-khayr (فاض الماء والدمع والمطر والخير), yafīḍu fayḍan, means it became abundant.

    al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad (d. c. 170/786), Kitāb al-ʿAyn. The first Arabic dictionary, arranged by permutations of the root letters.

    Fāḍa al-māʾ wa-l-damʿ wa-l-maṭar wa-l-khayr (فاض الماء والدمع والمطر والخير), yafīḍu fayḍan, means it became abundant. Fāḍat ʿaynuhu (فاضت عينه), tafīḍu fayḍan, means it flowed [with tears]. Afāḍa damʿahu (أفاض دمعه), yufīḍuhu ifāḍatan — he shed his tears. Afāḍa al-baʿīr jirratahu (أفاض البعير جرته) ifāḍatan — he brought it up at one go. Fāḍa ṣadru fulān bi-sirrihi (فاض صدر فلان بسره) means it became full and he disclosed it. Al-ḥawḍ fāʾiḍ (الحوض فائض) means full, fayḍan wa-fayḍūḍatan, and afaḍtuhu anā means 'I made it overflow.' Afāḍa ināʾahu (أفاض إناءه) — he filled his vessel until it nearly spilled. It is said: māʾuhā fayḍ wa-ghayḍ (ماؤها فيض وغيض): al-fayḍ is the abundant, al-ghayḍ the little. Afāḍa al-qawm min ʿArafāt (أفاض القوم من عرفات) means they returned and pushed forth; every such pushing-forth is an ifāḍah (إفاضة). Afāḍū fī al-ḥadīth (أفاضوا في الحديث) means they took up [the discourse]. Ḥadīth mustafāḍ (حديث مستفاض): one that has been taken up [and discussed]; they say istafāḍūhu (استفاضوه), i.e., they took it up. He who says mustafīḍ (مستفيض) means: it is current among the people, spreading like water that is mustafīḍ (spreading out). Afāḍa al-qawm bi-l-qidāḥ (أفاض القوم بالقداح) means they cast with the divining-arrows.

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    فوضت اليه الأمر أي جعلته إليه. [وقال الله- جل وعز-: وأفوض أمري إلى الله «188» ، أي أتكل عليه] «189» . وصار الناس فوضى أي متفرقين، وهو جماعة الفائض، ولا يفرد كما لا يفرد الواحد من المتفرقين. ويقال: الوحش فوضى أي متفرقة مترددة. [والناس فوضى: لا سراة لهم تجمعهم] «190» . وشركة المفاوضة: الاشتراك في كل شيء، يقال: بينهم فوض اذا كانوا فيه شركاء. وشاركته شركة مفاوضة أي في كل شيء، وشاركته شركة عنان، وهو أن يشتركا في شيء خاص.

  • al-Jawharī · 393Fāḍa al-khabar yafīḍu wa-istafāḍa (فاض الخبر يفيض واستفاض) — it became widespread.

    al-Jawharī (d. c. 393/1003), al-Ṣiḥāḥ. Admits only usage he judged sound.

    Fāḍa al-khabar yafīḍu wa-istafāḍa (فاض الخبر يفيض واستفاض) — it became widespread. It is ḥadīth mustafīḍ (حديث مستفيض), spread among the people; do not say mustafāḍ (مستفاض) unless you add 'fīhi' (مستفاض فيه). Some say istafāḍūhu (استفاضوه), so it is [called] mustafāḍ. It is said: istafāḍa al-wādī shajaran (استفاض الوادي شجرا) — the valley widened and its trees became abundant. Al-mustafīḍ (المستفيض): one who requests the ifāḍah (pouring-forth) of water or the like. Dirʿ mufāḍah (درع مفاضة): a wide coat of mail. Imraʾah mufāḍah (امرأة مفاضة): a woman with a large belly. Fāḍa al-māʾ yafīḍu fayḍan wa-fayḍūḍatan (فاض الماء يفيض فيضا وفيضوضة) — it became so abundant it flowed over the bank of the valley. Arḍ dhāt fuyūḍ (أرض ذات فيوض): land with overflowing waters. Fāḍa ṣadruhu bi-l-sirr (فاض صدره بالسر): he disclosed the secret. Fāḍa al-liʾām (فاض اللئام): the base people became numerous. Fāḍa al-rajul yafīḍu fayḍan wa-fuyūḍan (فاض الرجل يفيض فيضا وفيوضا): he died. Likewise fāḍat nafsuhu (فاضت نفسه) — his soul departed, according to Abū ʿUbaydah and al-Farrāʾ, who said it is a dialect of Tamīm; Abū Zayd likewise. Al-Aṣmaʿī said: one does not say fāḍa al-rajul nor fāḍat nafsuhu — only tears and water 'fāḍa.' It is said: afāḍa ināʾahu (أفاض إناءه) — he filled it until it overflowed. Afāḍa dumūʿahu (أفاض دموعه), and afāḍat dumūʿuhu (أفاضت دموعه) — his tears flowed. Afāḍa al-māʾ ʿalā nafsihi (أفاض الماء على نفسه): he poured it over himself. Afāḍa al-nās min ʿArafāt ilā Minā (أفاض الناس من عرفات إلى منى): they departed/pushed forth; every such pushing-forth is an ifāḍah. Afāḍū fī al-ḥadīth (أفاضوا في الحديث): they plunged into it. Afāḍa al-baʿīr (أفاض البعير): he brought up his cud from his stomach and expelled it. Hence the poet's line: 'And they cast forth (afḍna), after their silence, cud, from Dhī al-Abāriq, when they grazed at Ḥaqīlā...' Afāḍa bi-l-qidāḥ (أفاض بالقداح): he struck/cast with the arrows. Abū Dhuʾayb said, describing a wild ass and its she-asses: 'As though they were a gaming-board, and as though he, a gambler, casts (yafīḍu) upon the arrows and splits [the stakes]...' He means the qidāḥ [arrows], the prepositions being interchangeable. Al-fayḍ (الفيض): the Nile of Egypt. Al-Aṣmaʿī said: the river of Basra too is called al-Fayḍ. Nahr fayyāḍ (نهر فياض): a river abundant in water. Rajul fayyāḍ (رجل فياض): a generous, bountiful man. Faras fayḍ (فرس فيض): a horse abundant/swift in its running. Their saying aʿṭāhu ghayḍan min fayḍ (أعطاه غيضا من فيض): he gave him a little from much.

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    فوض إليه الأمر، أي رده إليه. والتفويض في النكاح: التزويج بلا مهر. وقوم فوضى، أي متساوون لا رئيس لهم. قال الأفوه الأودي (1) : لا يصلح الناس فوضى لا سراة لهم * ولا سراة إذا جهالهم سادوا * ونعام فوضى: مختلط بعضه ببعض. ويقال: أموالهم فوضى بينهم، أي هم شركاء فيها. وفيضوضى مثله، يمد ويقصر. وتفاوض الشريكان في المال، إذا اشتركا فيه أجمع. وهي شركة المفاوضة. وفاوضه في أمره، أي جاراه. وتفاوض القوم في الأمر، أي فاوض فيه بعضهم بعضا.

  • Ibn Fāris · 395Fāʾ, yāʾ, ḍād is one sound root indicating the flowing of something with ease;

    Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004), Maqāyīs al-Lugha. Seeks each root's original sense (aṣl).

    Fāʾ, yāʾ, ḍād is one sound root indicating the flowing of something with ease; other usages are analogized from it. From this: fāḍa (فاض) al-māʾ yafīḍu — the water flowed/overflowed. It is said afāḍa (أفاض) ināʾahu when he filled it until it overflowed, and afāḍa dumūʿahu (أفاض دموعه) — he shed copious tears. From this too: afāḍa al-qawm min ʿArafah (أفاض القوم من عرفة) — the people surged/pushed forth from ʿArafah, like the flowing of a flood. God Most High said: 'Then surge forth (afīḍū) from where the people surge forth' [Q. 2:199]. And afāḍa al-qawm fī al-ḥadīth (أفاض القوم في الحديث) means they plunged into the discourse; He, glorified, said: 'When you were engaged in it (idh tufīḍūna fīhi)' [Q. 10:61]. From this also afāḍa bi-l-qidāḥ (أفاض بالقداح) — he cast the divining-arrows, as if making them flow from his hand. [The poet] said: 'As though they were a gaming-board, and as though he, a gambler, casts (yafīḍu) the arrows and splits [the stakes]...' And it is said afāḍa al-baʿīr bi-jirratihi (أفاض البعير بجرته) — the camel pushed forth its cud from its breast. He said: 'And they cast forth (afḍna), after their silence, cud, from Dhī al-Abāṭiḥ, when they grazed at Ḥaqīlā...' Arḍ dhāt fuyūḍ (أرض ذات فيوض) — land in which there is overflowing water. 'So-and-so gave so-and-so ghayḍan min fayḍ (غيضا من فيض)' means 'a little from much.' Al-Aṣmaʿī said: the river of Basra alone is called al-Fayḍ (الفيض). From this chapter also: fāḍa al-rajul (فاض الرجل) — he died. He said: 'An eye was gouged out, and a soul departed (fāḍat)...' He said: I heard elder eloquent speakers of Rabīʿah ibn Mālik say fāḍat nafsuhu (فاضت نفسه) with ḍād. And I heard an elder among them reciting: 'And I had nearly — were it not for a term deferred — had my soul depart (tafīḍu), when the throngs dazzled them...'

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    الفاء والياء والضاد أصل صحيح واحد يدل على جريان الشيء بسهولة ثم يقاس عليه من ذلك فاض الماء يفيض ويقال أفاض إناءه إذا ملأه حتى فاض وأفاض دموعه ومنه أفاض القوم من عرفة إذا دفعوا وذلك كجريان السيل قال الله تعالى ﴿ ثم أفيضوا من حيث أفاض الناس ﴾ وأفاض القوم في الحديث إذا اندفعوا فيه قال سبحانه ﴿ إذ تفيضون فيه ﴾ ومنه أفاض بالقداح إذا ضرب بها كأنه أجراها من يده قال — وكأنهن ربابة وكأنه … يسر يفيض على القداح ويصدع … ويقال أفاض البعير بجرته إذا دفع بها من صدره قال — وأفضن بعد كظومهن بجرة … من ذي الأباطح إذ رعين حقيلا … وأرض ذات فيوض إذا كان فيها ماء يفيض وأعطى فلان فلان ا غيضا من فيض أي قليلا من كثير قال الأصمعي ونهر البصرة وحده يسمى الفيض ومن الباب فاض الرجل إذا مات قال — ففقئت عين وفاضت نفس … قال وسمعت مشيخة فصحاء من ربيعة بن مالك يقولون فاضت نفسه بالضاد وسمعت شيخا منهم ينشد — وكدت لولا أجل تأخرا … تفيض نفسي إذ زهاهم زمرا —

  • al-Rāghib · 502Fāḍa al-māʾ (فاض الماء): when it flows, pouring forth.

    al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī (d. c. 502/1108), al-Mufradāt. Quranic vocabulary, from core sense to Quranic usage.

    Fāḍa al-māʾ (فاض الماء): when it flows, pouring forth. He Most High said: 'You see their eyes overflow (tafīḍu) with tears' [Q. 5:83]. Afāḍa ināʾahu (أفاض إناءه): he filled it until he made it overflow, and afaḍtuhu [I made it overflow]. He said: 'That you pour forth (afīḍū) upon us some of the water' [Q. 7:50]. From this: fāḍa ṣadruhu bi-l-sirr (فاض صدره بالسر) — it flowed over [i.e., he disclosed it]. Rajul fayyāḍ (رجل فياض): generous. From this is metaphorically derived afāḍū fī al-ḥadīth (أفاضوا في الحديث): they plunged into the discourse. He said: 'For what you had plunged into (afaḍtum fīhi) touched you' [Q. 24:14]; 'He is most knowing of that into which you plunge (tufīḍūna fīhi)' [Q. 46:8]; 'When you were engaged in it (idh tufīḍūna fīhi)' [Q. 10:61]. Ḥadīth mustafīḍ (حديث مستفيض): widespread. Al-fayḍ (الفيض): abundant water; it is said 'he gave him ghayḍan min fayḍ (غيضا من فيض)' — a little from much. And His saying: 'So when you pour forth (afaḍtum) from ʿArafāt' [Q. 2:198], and His saying: 'Then pour forth (afīḍū) from where the people pour forth (afāḍa)' [Q. 2:199], i.e., you departed from it in great numbers, likened to the overflow (fayḍ) of water. Afāḍa bi-l-qidāḥ (أفاض بالقداح): he cast the divining-arrows. Afāḍa al-baʿīr bi-jirratihi (أفاض البعير بجرته): he threw forth [his cud]. Dirʿ mufāḍah (درع مفاضة): a coat of mail poured out/let down over its wearer, as in their saying 'dirʿ masnūnah' — a poured mail-coat, from 'sanantu' meaning 'I poured.'

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    قال تعالى: وأفوض أمري إلى الله [غافر/ 44] ، أرده إليه، وأصله من قولهم: مالهم فوضى بينهم قال الشاعر:

  • Lisān · 711Fāḍa al-māʾ wa-l-damʿ wa-naḥwuhumā (فاض الماء والدمع ونحوهما) yafīḍu fayḍan wa-fuyūḍatan wa-fuyūḍan wa-fayaḍānan wa-fayḍūḍatan (فيضا وفيوضة وفيوضا وفيضانا وفيضوضة) — it became so abundant that it flowed over the bank of

    Ibn Manẓūr (d. 711/1311), Lisān al-ʿArab. The great compendium of the earlier dictionaries (entry shortened).

    Fāḍa al-māʾ wa-l-damʿ wa-naḥwuhumā (فاض الماء والدمع ونحوهما) yafīḍu fayḍan wa-fuyūḍatan wa-fuyūḍan wa-fayaḍānan wa-fayḍūḍatan (فيضا وفيوضة وفيوضا وفيضانا وفيضوضة) — it became so abundant that it flowed over the bank of the valley. Fāḍat ʿaynuhu tafīḍu fayḍan (فاضت عينه تفيض فيضا): when it flowed [with tears]. It is said: afāḍat al-ʿayn al-damʿa tafīḍuhu ifāḍatan (أفاضت العين الدمع تفيضه إفاضة), and afāḍa fulān damʿahu (أفاض فلان دمعه) — so-and-so shed his tears. Fāḍa al-māʾ wa-l-maṭar wa-l-khayr (فاض الماء والمطر والخير): when it became abundant. In the ḥadīth: 'wa-yafīḍu al-māl' ('wealth will overflow'), from fāḍa al-māʾ wa-l-damʿ wa-ghayruhumā yafīḍu fayḍan, meaning it became abundant; it is said fāḍa means it gushed forth. Afāḍahu huwa (أفاضه هو) — he made it overflow. Afāḍa ināʾahu (أفاض إناءه): he filled it until it overflowed. Afāḍa dumūʿahu (أفاض دموعه) — he shed his tears. Afāḍa al-māʾ ʿalā nafsihi (أفاض الماء على نفسه): he poured it over himself. Fāḍa ṣadruhu bi-sirrihi (فاض صدره بسره): when it became full and he disclosed it, unable to keep it hidden — likewise the river with its water and the vessel with its contents. Māʾ fayḍ (ماء فيض): abundant. Al-ḥawḍ fāʾiḍ (الحوض فائض): full. Al-fayḍ (الفيض): the river, plural afyāḍ and fuyūḍ (أفياض وفيوض); their giving it a plural indicates it is not named merely from the verbal noun. Fayḍ al-Baṣrah (فيض البصرة): its river — the name prevailed for it due to its greatness. Al-Tahdhīb: 'The river of Basra is called al-Fayḍ, and al-Fayḍ is [also] a river of Egypt.' Nahr fayyāḍ (نهر فياض): abundant in water. Rajul fayyāḍ (رجل فياض): a generous, bountiful man. Arḍ dhāt fuyūḍ (أرض ذات فيوض): land with water that overflows and rises high. Fāḍa al-liʾām (فاض اللئام): the base people became numerous. Faras fayḍ (فرس فيض): swift, abundant in running. Rajul fayḍ wa-fayyāḍ (رجل فيض وفياض): abundant in kindness. In the ḥadīth, he [the Prophet] said to Ṭalḥah: 'You are al-Fayyāḍ (الفياض)' — so named for the extensiveness and abundance of his giving; he had distributed four hundred thousand among his people, and he was generous. Afāḍa ināʾahu ifāḍatan (أفاض إناءه إفاضة): he filled it to the brim — from al-Liḥyānī. Ibn Sīdah said: in my view it means he filled it until it overflowed. Aʿṭāhu ghayḍan min fayḍ (أعطاه غيضا من فيض): he gave him a little from much. Afāḍa bi-l-shayʾ (أفاض بالشيء): he pushed/cast it forth. Abū Ṣakhr al-Hudhalī said, describing a battalion: 'They met it with a surging, dense-ranked host, overflowing (tafīḍu) the fortress with its young ones...' Fāḍa yafīḍu fayḍan wa-fuyūḍan (فاض يفيض فيضا وفيوضا): he died. Fāḍat nafsuhu tafīḍu fayḍan (فاضت نفسه تفيض فيضا): his soul departed — a dialect of Tamīm. And he cited: 'They gathered the people and said: "a wedding!" — then an eye was gouged out, and a soul departed (fāḍat)...' Al-Aṣmaʿī cited it [differently], saying: rather it is 'waṭan al-ḍirs' [the tooth-socket]. Dhahabnā fī fayḍ fulān (ذهبنا في فيض فلان): we went in so-and-so's funeral procession. In the ḥadīth about the Dajjāl: 'Then, in the wake of that, will be al-fayḍ (الفيض)' [death]. Shamir said: I asked al-Bakrāwī about it and he said: al-fayḍ here means death; he said: I have not heard it from anyone else, except that he said fāḍat nafsuhu (فاضت نفسه) means his saliva that gathers on his lips as his soul departs. Ibn al-Aʿrābī said: fāḍa al-rajul and fāẓa (فاظ) [both] mean he died, and likewise fāẓat nafsuhu (فاظت نفسه). Abū al-Ḥasan said: fāḍat nafsuhu — the verb belongs to the soul [as its subject]; and fāḍa al-rajul yafīḍu, and fāẓa yafīẓu fayẓan wa-fuyūẓan (فاظ يفيظ فيظا وفيوظا). Al-Aṣmaʿī said: one does not say fāẓat nafsuhu nor fāḍat — only fāḍa al-rajul and fāẓa when he died. Al-Aṣmaʿī said: I heard Abū ʿAmr [entry continues]

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    فوض إليه الأمر: صيره إليه وجعله الحاكم فيه. وفي حديث الدعاء: فوضت أمري إليك أي رددته إليك. يقال: فوض أمره إليه إذا رده إليه وجعله الحاكم فيه؛ ومنه حديث الفاتحة: فوض إلي عبدي. والتفويض في النكاح التزويج بلا مهر. وقوم فوضى: مختلطون، وقيل: هم الذين لا أمير لهم ولا من يجمعهم؛ قال الأفوه الأودي: لا يصلح القوم فوضى لا سراة لهم، ... ولا سراة إذا جهالهم سادوا وصار الناس فوضى أي متفرقين، وهو جماعة الفائض، ولا يفرد كما يفرد الواحد من المتفرقين. والوحش فوضى: متفرقة تتردد. وقوم فوضى أي متساوون لا رئيس لهم. ونعام فوضى أي مختلط بعضه ببعض، وكذلك جاء القوم فوضى، وأمرهم فيضى وفوضى: مختلط؛ عن اللحياني، وقال: معناه سواء بينهم كما قال ذلك في فضا. ومتاعهم فوضى بينهم إذا كانوا فيه شركاء، ويقال أيضا فضا؛ قال: طعامهم فوضى فضا في رحالهم، ... ولا يحسبون السوء إلا تناديا ويقال: أمرهم فيضوضا وفيضيضا وفوضوضا بينهم. وهذه الأحرف الثلاثة يجوز فيها المد والقصر، وقال أبو زيد: القوم فيضوضا أمرهم وفيضوضا فيما بينهم إذا كانوا مختلطين، فيلبس هذا ثوب هذا، ويأكل هذا طعام هذا، لا يؤامر واحد منهم صاحبه فيما يفعل في أمره. ويقال: أموالهم فوضى بينهم أي هم شركاء فيها، وفيضوضا مثله، يمد ويقصر. وشركة «2» المفاوضة: الشركة العامة في كل شيء. وتفاوض الشريكان في المال إذا اشتركا فيه أجمع، وهي شركة المفاوضة. وقال الأزهري في ترجمة عنن: وشاركه شركة مفاوضة، وذلك أن يكون مالهما جميعا من كل شيء يملكانه بينهما، وقيل: شركة المفاوضة أن يشتركا في كل شيء في أيديهما أو يستفيئانه من بعد، وهذه الشركة باطلة عند الشافعي، وعند النعمان وصاحبيه جائزة. وفاوضه في أمره أي جاراه. وتفاوضوا الحديث: أخذوا فيه. وتفاوض القوم في الأمر أي فاوض فيه بعضهم بعضا. وفي حديث معاوية قال لدغفل بن حنظلة: بم ضبطت ما أرى؟ قال: بمفاوضة العلماء، قال: وما مفاوضة العلماء؛ قال: كنت إذا لقيت عالما أخذت ما عنده وأعطيته ما عندي ؛ المفاوضة: المساواة والمشاركة، وهي مفاعلة من التفويض، كأن كل واحد منهما رد ما عنده إلى صاحبه، أراد محادثة العلماء ومذاكرتهم في العلم، والله أعلم.

  • Lane · 1876English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

    E. W. Lane (d. 1876), An Arabic-English Lexicon. English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

    فَاضَ

    1. فَاضَ, (S, M, Mgh, &c.,) aor. يَفِيضُ, inf. n. فَيْضٌ (S, M, O, Msb, K) and فَيْضُوضَةٌ (S, O, K) andفُيُوضٌ (M, O, K) and فِيُوضٌ and فُيُوضَةٌ (M, K) and فَيَضَانٌ, (M, O, K,) It (water) overflowed: poured out, or forth, from fulness: (Mgh:) it (water, S, O, K, or a torrent, Msb) became abundant, (S, O, Msb, K and flowed from [over] the brink of the valley, (Msb,) or so as to flow over the side of the valley, (S, O,) or so as to flow like a valley; (K;) and افاض signifies the same: (Msb, TA:) it (water) became abundant: (TA:) [contr. of غَاضَ, aor. يَغِيضُ:] it (water, and that of the eyes, and the like, M, or anything fluid, Msb) ran, or flowed: (M, Msb:) or it poured out, or forth; or poured out, or forth, vehemently; gushed out, or forth: (M:) and it (water, and blood,) fell in drops. (Msb.) It (a vessel) became full: (Msb:) [or it overflowed: for you say,] فَاضَ النَّهْرُ بِمَائِهِ The river overflowed with its water: and فَاضَ الإِنَآءُ بِمَا فِيهِ The vessel overflowed with what was in it: (Msb:) and a poet says, [I complained; and complaint is not a custom of the like of me; but the cup overflows on the occasion of its being full]. (A) You say also فَاضَتْ عَيْنُهُ, aor. as above, inf. n. فَيْضٌ, The eye flowed [with tears]. (TA.) And فَاصَ عَرَقًا, said of a man, [He sweated;] sweat appeared upon his body, on an occasion of grief. (IKtt) (assumed tropical:) It (a thing) was, or became, much, abundant, many, or unmerous. (O, K.) You say, فَاضَ اللِّئَامُ (assumed tropical:) The mean became many: (S, O:) opposed to غَاضَ, q. v. (S and A in art. غيض.) And فَاضَ الخَيْرُ (tropical:) Good, or wealth, &c., became abundant, (A, Msb,) فِيهِمْ among them. (A.) Aor. as above, (S,) inf. n. فَيْضٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) It (a piece of news, or a story,) spread abroad; (S, M, K;) as also استفاض; (S, M, A, Msb, K, TA;) it spread abroad among the people. (Msb and TA in explanation of the latter verb,) like water. (TA.) ↓The latter is also said of a place, meaning (tropical:) It became wide, or ample. (A.) And you say, فَاضَ عَلَيْهِ الدِّرْعُ (tropical:) [The coat of mail spread over him; or covered him]. (A.) Aor. as above, inf. n. فَيْضٌ and فُيُوضٌ, (tropical:) He (a man, S, O, K) died: (S, M, O, K:) and, (S, M, O, K,) in like manner, (S, O,) فَاضَتٌ نَفْسُهُ, (S, M, A, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) aor. as above, (M,) inf. n. فَيْضٌ, (M, Msb,) (tropical:) his soul departed, or went forth; (S, M, A, * Mgh, * O, Msb, K;) of the dial. of Temeem; (S, M, O;) on the authority of AO and Fr; and AZ says the like; but As says that one should not say, فاض الرَّجُلُ, nor فاضت نفسه, for فاض is only said of tears and of water: (S, O:) to which is added in the O, but one says, فَاظَ, with ظ, [as is also said in the Mgh,] as meaning “ he died, ” and not فاض, with ض, decidedly: (TA:) [see, however, the remarks of IB below:] or the more chaste expression is فاظ, with ظ, without the mention of the نفس; and some do not allow any other: (Msb:) but in the L we find as follows: IAar says. فاض الرجل and فاظ, meaning “ the man died: ” and Abu-l-Hasan says, فاظت نفسه, the verb relating to the نفس; and فاض الرجل and فاظ: but As says, I heard AA say that one should not say, فاظت نفسه, but فاظ, meaning “ he died; ” and not فاض, with ض, decidedly: IB, however, says that what IDrd has cited from As is different from that which J has ascribed to him; for IDrd cites the words of As thus: the Arabs says, فاظ الرجل, meaning “ the man died; ” but when they speak of the نفس, they say فاضت نفسه, with ض; and he quotes the ex. [And an eye was put out, and a soul departed]: and he [IB] adds that this is what is commonly known to be the opinion of As: but J has committed and error; for As quotes from AA that one should not say, فاظت نفسه, but فاظ, meaning “ he died; ” not فاض, decidedly and he also says, nor does it necessarily follow from what he relates that he firmly believed it: AO says that فاظت نفسه is of the dial. of Keys; and فاضت, of the dial of Temeem and AHát says, I heard AZ say that Benoo-Dabbeh alone say, فاضت نفسه: in like manner also El-Mázinee says. on the authority of AZ. that all the Arabs say, فاظت نفسه. except Benoo-Dabbeh, who say, فاضت نفسه with ض. (TA.) [See also art. فيظ. It is further said, that] الفَيْضُ signifies Death: (A, K;) as occurring in a trad respecting Ed-Dejjál, where it is said, ثُمَّ يَكُونُ عَلَى أَثَرِ ذٰلِكَ الفَيْضُ [Then shall be, after that, death] (A, TA:) Sh says, I asked El-Bekráwee respecting this, and he asserted الفيض, in this case, to signify “ death; ” but I have not heard it from any other; unless it be from فَاضَتْ نَفْسَهُ signifying His slaver collecting upon his lips at the departure of his soul [flowed]. (TA.) You say also فَاضَ صدْرُهُ مِنَ الغَيْظِ (tropical:) [His bosom overflowed with wrath, or rage], (A, TA.) And فَاضَ صَدْرُهُ بِالسِّرِّ His bosom disclosed, or concealed, the secret; (S, O, K;) his bosom could not conceal the secret; (M;) his bosom was full with the secret, and disclosed it, not being able to conceal it. (TA.) And فَيْضٌ is used as meaning (assumed tropical:) God's suggesting (إِلْقَآء) [of a thing]: what the Devil suggests (يُلْقِيهِ) is termed الوَسْوَسَةُ. (Kull p. 277.) فَاضَ البَعِيرُ بِجِرَّتِهِ: see 4, latter half.

    افاض

    4. افاض: see 1, first sentence. He filled a vessel so that it overflowed: (S, M, O, K:) or [simply] he filled a vessel, (M, Msb,) accord. to Lh; but the former. [says ISd,] in my opinion, is the correct signification. (M.) He made water, and tears, and the like, to run, or flow; or to pour out, or forth; or to pour out, or forth, vehemently; to gush out, or forth: (M:) he poured [water &c.] out, or forth: (A, TA:) or he poured water out, or forth, copiously. (Mgh.) You say, افاض المَآءَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ, (S, O, K,) or على جَسَدِهِ, (Msb,) He poured the water (S, O, Msb, K) upon himself, (S, O, K,) or upon his body. (Msb.) And افاض دُمُوعَهُ, (S,) or دَمْعَهُ, (Msb,) He poured forth his tears. (Msb.) And افاضت العَيْنُ الدَّمْعَ [The eye poured forth tears]. (TA.) افاض ٱللّٰهُ الخَيْرَ (tropical:) God made good, or wealth, &c., to abound. (Msb.) افاض عَلَيْهِ الدِّرْعَ (tropical:) He put on him the coat of mail: like as you say صَبَّهَا [lit he poured it]. (A, TA.) أَفَاضُوا مِنْ عَرَفَاتٍ (tropical:) They pushed on, pressed on, or went quickly, syn. دَفَعُوا, (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) or اِنْدَفَعُوا, (M, A,) with multitude, (M, Mgh, O,) from 'Arafát, (S, M, A, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) to Minè, (S, M, O,) exclaiming لَبَّيْكَ: (M:) or they returned, and dispersed themselves from 'Arafát: (O, K:) or they hastened from 'Arafát to another place: (K:) the last rendering is taken from Ibn-'Arafeh; and agreeably with all of these renderings, the phrase in the Kur [ii. 194], فَإِذَا أَفَضْتُمْ مِنْ عَرَفَاتٍ, has been explained: (TA:) and [in like manner,] you say افاضوا مِنَ مِنَى إِلَى مَكِّةَ (tropical:) They returned from Mine to Mekkeh; on the day of the sacrifice: (Msb:) إِفَاضَةٌ signifies (tropical:) the advancing, and pushing on, or pressing on, in journeying, or pace, (A, * TA,) and the like, (A,) with multitude, and is only after a state of separation and congregation: (TA:) it is from the same word as signifying the “ pouring out, or forth; ” (A, O, TA,) or from افاض المَآءَ signifying “ he poured the water out, or forth, copiously ” (Mgh:) and the original expression is افاض نَفْسَهُ. or رَاحِلَتَهُ; but they omit the objective complement, and hence the verb resembles one that is intrans.: (O, TA:) or افاضة signifies the quickly impelling or urging [a beast] to run, with one's foot or leg, or feet or legs: and افاض, he (a rider) made his camel to exert himself beyond measure, to go a quick run, between the utmost rate and what is less than that; افاضة denoting the half [of the full rate] of the run of camels having riders upon these; and being only applied when they have riders upon them: (Khálid Ibn-Jembeh:) and every دَفْعَة [or act of pushing on, or pressing on,] is termed إِفَاضَةٌ. (S, Msb, K.) Hence, طَوَافُ الإِفَاضَةِ, signifying The circuiting [around the Kaạbeh] on the return from Mine to Mekkeh; (Msb, TA) on the day of the sacrifice: (TA:) or the circuiting of visitation. (Mgh.) افاضوا فِى الحَدِيثِ (tropical:) They pushed on, or pressed on, in discourse; syn. اِنْدَفَعُوا: (Lh, S, M, A, O,) they entered thereinto; launched forth, or cut, thereinto: (Lh, M, O;) they were large, or copious, or profuse, therein; (O, TA:) or they dilated therein (M:) or they began, commenced, or entered upon, discourse: (Msb;) as also استفاضوهُ, (M, Msb,) accord. to some; (Msb;) but this latter is disallowed by most; (M;) or by the skilful, (Msb.) You say also, افاض فِى عَمَلٍ (assumed tropical:) He entered into an action, or employment; and pushed on, or pressed on, therein: (Bd in x. 62:) or he began it, commenced it, or entered upon it. (Jel, ibid.) افاض بَالشَّيْءِ He impelled, or thrust, with the thing: (M:) he cast, or threw, the thing. (M, TA.) افاض البَعِيرُ بِجِرَّتِهِ, (Lh, S, M, A, O,) and (S, O) افاض alone, (S, O, K,) and بِجِرَّتِهِ فَاضَ, (TA,) (tropical:) The camel propelled his cud (Lh, S, M, A, K) from his inside, (Lh, M, A,) or from his stomach, (S, K,) and expelled it, or ejected it: (S:) or cast it forth in a scattered and copious state: or it means [he made to be heard] the sound of his cud, and of his chewing. (M.) مَا افاض بِكَلِمَةٍ (assumed tropical:) He did not make clear, or distinct, or perspicuous, a word, or sentence. (Msb, TA.) [And ما افاض بكلمة signifies the same.] افاض بِالقِدَاحِ, (S, M, A, O, K,) and عَلَى القِدَاحِ, meaning بِالقِدَاحِ, for prepositions stand in the places of other prepositions, (S, O,) and افاض القِدَاحَ, (O, K,) (tropical:) i. q. ضَرَبَ بِالقِدَاحِ [which has two significations: He turned about, or shuffled, the gaming-arrows: and he played with the gaming-arrows]: (S, M, A, O, K:) and أَجَالَهَا [which has the former of the above significations]: or he dealt them forth. (TA.) Aboo-Dhu-eyb says, describing a [wild] he-ass and his she-asses, (S, TA) (tropical:) [And it was as though they were a bundle of gaming-arrows, and as though he were a shuffler thereof, shuffling or] dealing out the arrows, and deciding, and making known what he produced: (TA:) or, accord. to Kh, and speaking with his loudest voice, saying “ The arrow of such a one has won, ” or “ This is the arrow of such a one: ” or, accord. to some, distributing, or dispensing, by means of the arrows: (TA in art. صدع:) by عَلَى القِدَاحِ is meant بِالقِدَاحِ. (S voce عَلَى.) One relation of this verse substitutes يَخُوضُ for يُفِيضُ. (TA.) Az says that إِفَاض [a mistranscription for إِفَاضَةٌ] is always a consequence of a state of separation, or dispersion, and abundance, or copiousness. (TA.) Hence the saying in a trad. respecting a thing picked up from the ground, ثُمَّ أَفِضْهَا مِنْ مَالِكَ, [app. a mistake for فِى مَالِكَ,] i. e. (assumed tropical:) Then put thou, or throw thou, it, and mix it, among thy property. (TA.) أُفِيضَتْ She (a woman) became wide in the belly: [as though spread out:] or she became large in the belly, and flabby in flesh. (M.) افاض المَرْأَةَ He made the مَسْلَكَانِ [i. e. vagina and rectum] of the woman to become one, on the occasion of devirgination; (M;) i. q. أَفْضَاهَا [from which it is app. formed by transposition, as is indicated in the M.]. (O, TA.)

    تفيّض

    5. تفيّض It flowed. (Har p. 610. [But this I do not find elsewhere.])

    استفاض

    10. استفاض He asked for the pouring out (إِفَاضَة) of water, (K, TA,) &c. (TA.) Said of a piece of news: and of a place: see 1, in the first half of the paragraph. You say also, استفاض الوَادِى شَجَرًا (tropical:) The valley became wide, and abundant in trees. (S, O, K, TA.) استفاضوا الحَدِيثَ: see افاضوا فِى الحَدِيثِ. [It seems to be indicated in the S and O that it signifies They spread abroad the story among the people; as used by some: see مُسْتَفِيضٌ.]

    فَيْضٌ

    فَيْضٌ A river, (M, TA,) in general: (TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَفْيَاضٌ and [of mult.] فُيُوضٌ: the pluralization thereof shows that it is not an inf. n. used as a subst.: (M, TA:) [and a river, or water, that overflows.] الفَيْضُ is [hence] applied to The Nile of Egypt: (S, O, K:) or, accord. to the Tekmileh, to a place in the Nile of Egypt: (TA:) and to the river of El-Basrah: (As, S, K:) or this last is called فَيْضُ البَصْرَةِ, because of its greatness. (M.) You say also أَرْضٌ ذَاتُ فُيُوضٍ Land in which is water: (Lh, M:) or in which are waters that overflow. (S, K, TA.) A horse (tropical:) that runs much; (S, M, O, K;) that is fleet, or swift; (M;) that runs vehemently; likened to water pouring forth; as also سَكْبٌ. (Eth-Thaalebee, in TA, art. سكب.) A man (tropical:) bountiful, or munificent; as also فَائِضٌ, (A,) and فَيَّاضٌ: (S, O:) or, as also ↓the last, a man abounding [or profuse] in beneficence or bounty. (M.) Much, or abundant, water. (M.) (tropical:) Much, or abundance: as in the saying, أَعْطَاهُ غَيْضًا مِنْ فَيْضٍ (tropical:) He gave him little from much. (S, M, O.) Anything much in quantity. (KL.) (assumed tropical:) A large gift: [and simply a gift, favour, or grace:] pl. فُيُوضٌ. (KL.) [See also 1, last sentence but one. Hence بِطَرِيقِ الفَيْضِ meaning (assumed tropical:) By way, or means, of instinct; instinctively.] (tropical:) Death: [as being the outpouring of the soul:] see 1. (Sh, on the authority of El-Bekráwee; and K.) ذَهَبْنَا فِى فَيْضِ فُلَانٍ (assumed tropical:) We went with the corpse and bier of such a one. (M.)

    فَاضَةٌ

    فَاضَةٌ: see مُفَاضٌ.

    أَمْرُهُمْ فَيْضَى بَيْنَهُمْ

    أَمْرُهُمْ فَيْضَى بَيْنَهُمْ: i. q. فَوضَى, q. v. (TA in art. فوض.)

    أَمْرُهُمْ فَيْضُوضَى بَيْنَهُمْ

    أَمْرُهُمْ فَيْضُوضَى بَيْنَهُمْ, and فَيْضِيضَى, and فَيْضُوضَآءُ, and فَيْضِضَآءُ, and فَيُوضَى, i. q. فَوْضَى, q. v. in art. فوض. (AZ, K.)

    فَيُوضٌ

    فَيُوضٌ: see مُفَاضٌ.

    أَمْرُهُمْ فَيُوضَى بَيْنَهُمْ

    أَمْرُهُمْ فَيُوضَى بَيْنَهُمْ: see فَيضُوضَى.

    فَيَّاضٌ

    فَيَّاضٌ A river containing much water: (S:) or that flows much. (Ham p. 375.) Applied to a man: see فَيْضٌ, in two places.

    فَائِضٌ

    فَائِضٌ A watering-trough full: a sea, or great river, [overflowing: see 1: or] pouring, or pouring vehemently. (TA.) Applied to a man: see فَيْضٌ.

    Lane, Arabic-English Lexiconread Lane's entry online ↗

The same three letters in all six orders. Choose one.

ف ي ض

الفاء والياء والضاد أصل صحيح واحد يدل على جريان الشيء بسهولة ثم يقاس عليه

f-y-ḍ is one sound root that indicates the flowing of something with ease; then [other senses] are derived from it by analogy.

Ibn Fāris ↗Lisān ↗Lane ↗al-Khalīl: used ↗Quran ×9

an entry in Ibn Fārislater sources onlyin none of them

Do these six share one core meaning?

About thisal-Khalīl, Ibn Jinnī, Ibn Fāris; the counts across the dictionary

al-Khalīl (d. c. 170/786), Kitāb al-ʿAyn, as transmitted by al-Layth: a two-letter word “turns in two ways”, a three-letter word “in six ways” (masdūsa), four letters in 24, five in 120; “its used forms are written down and its unused ones dropped” (line 975 ↗). The dictionary is built on this: each chapter takes a set of letters and names which orders are used (mustaʿmal) and which unused (muhmal). The ring shows that verdict, from the chapter heading as edited (documented in the text; how much of the book is al-Khalīl's own is disputed).

A reported total. al-Suyūṭī transmits, from Ḥamza al-Iṣfahānī, that al-Khalīl put the possible forms, used and unused, of two to five letters at 12,305,412 (al-Muzhir, line 1347 ↗). It is reported, not found in the ʿAyn. It equals exactly the arrangements of 2 to 5 different letters out of 28 (756 + 19,656 + 491,400 + 11,793,600); the breakdown printed beside it is corrupt, and al-Zubaydī's count, given next, differs (6,659,400).

Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), al-Khaṣāʾiṣ, names the greater derivation (al-ishtiqāq al-akbar): bind a three-letter root and its six orders to one meaning, and bring stray members back “by the subtlety of the craft and interpretation” (line 7536 ↗). He says himself that it does not hold for every root (line 167 ↗; line 7603 ↗).

Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004) gives each root its own aṣl and treats a rearranged word as maqlūb, “turned round”, and so not a root of its own: “j-b-dh is not a root, because it is a single word, turned round” (Maqāyīs, line 6147 ↗). The ring sets his aṣl for each order side by side; whether they meet is the question.

Neighbours on the ring differ by one swap of two letters.

The critique. A source quoted by al-Suyūṭī calls the greater derivation Ibn Jinnī's innovation, “not relied on in the language” (al-Muzhir, line 6159 ↗).

The other axis. The root's letters also go into patterns that keep their order and change the frame: the patterns (awzān) and the verb Forms I–X.

Across Ibn Fāris's dictionary. Of the 2,300 possible sets of three different sound letters (no hamza, w or y), 1,021 have at least one order as an entry. How many of their six orders are entries:

Ibn Fāris, entries found (1,021 letter-sets)
  1. 1 of 6319
  2. 2 of 6218
  3. 3 of 6164
  4. 4 of 6155
  5. 5 of 6107
  6. 6 of 658
al-Khalīl, orders his headings call used (746 letter-sets)
  1. 1 of 6148
  2. 2 of 6108
  3. 3 of 6157
  4. 4 of 6179
  5. 5 of 6111
  6. 6 of 643

Of the orders al-Khalīl calls used, 2,097 are entries in Ibn Fāris and 267 are not; 17 that he calls unused are entries in Ibn Fāris.

Our computation from the OpenITI texts; heading detection can miss entries

Attested here means found in our digital texts (Ibn Fāris, Lisān al-ʿArab, Lane, the Quranic Arabic Corpus), with w and y kept apart and hamza spellings merged; it is our data, not a classical verdict. English beside the Arabic is AI translation. Sources and grades: docs/research/root-permutations.md.

How each letter is made, in brief, from Sībawayh's and Ibn Jinnī's own sentences (linked); their words are under Reference.

How it is madeSībawayh and Ibn Jinnī · phonetics

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

ف

ومن باطن الشفة السفلى وأطراف الثنايا العلى مخرج الفاء

From the inside of the lower lip and the edges of the upper front teeth is the place of the fāʾ. Sībawayh, line 26562 ↗

ومن باطن الشفة السفلى وأطراف الثنايا العلى، مخرج الفاء

From the inside of the lower lip and the edges of the upper front teeth is the place of the fāʾ. Ibn Jinnī, line 985 ↗

ي

ومن وسط اللسان بينه وبين وسط الحنك الأعلى مخرج الجيم والشين والياء

From the middle of the tongue, between it and the middle of the upper palate, is the place of the jīm, the shīn and the yāʾ. Sībawayh, line 26553 ↗

ومن وسط اللسان بينه وبين وسط الحنك الأعلى، مخرج الجيم والشين والياء

From the middle of the tongue, between it and the middle of the upper palate, is the place of the jīm, the shīn and the yāʾ. Ibn Jinnī, line 974 ↗

ض

ومن بين أول حافة اللسان وما يليها من الأضراس مخرج الضاد

From between the first part of the tongue's edge and the molars next to it is the place of the ḍād. Sībawayh, line 26554 ↗

ومن أول حافة اللسان وما يليها من الأضراس مخرج الضاد

From the first part of the tongue's edge and the molars next to it is the place of the ḍād. Ibn Jinnī, line 975 ↗

Sībawayh, al-Kitāb (ed. Hārūn) and Ibn Jinnī, Sirr ṣināʿat al-iʿrāb; OpenITI digital texts (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Full credits on each letter's page.

In the Breath of the All-MercifulIbn ʿArabī · metaphysics

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

ف

Level of existence: الملائكة · the angels

Divine Name: القوى · the Strong (al-Qawī)

Lunar mansion: سعد الأخبية · Saʿd al-Akhbiya

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 65823

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 10 line 2573 ↗

المرتبة العشرية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The tenfold rank: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2582

ي

Level of existence: السماء الأولى · The First Heaven

Divine Name: الرب · The Lord (al-Rabb)

Lunar mansion: الخرتان · al-Kharatān

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 64500

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 10 line 2573 ↗

المرتبة العشرية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The tenfold rank: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2582

ض

Level of existence: السماء الثانية · the second heaven

Divine Name: العليم · the All-Knowing (al-ʿAlīm)

Lunar mansion: الصرفة · al-Ṣarfa

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 64627

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 8 line 2571 ↗

الثمانية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The eightfold [rank]: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2580
Meaning by vowelal-Dabbāgh · a visionary claim about a primordial “Syriac”, not historical Syriac

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

ف

فهي لنفي الخبث بعد ما كان جنسه معلوما بالخبث، فهي إشارة إلى أنه طاهر وجنسه خبيث، والخبث مثل المعاصي وما أشبهها.

It is for negating foulness in something whose genus is known for foulness. It thus indicates that the thing is pure while its genus is foul; foulness being like sins and the like.

فهي لتزويل الخبث.

It is for removing foulness.

فهي إشارة إلى الذات وما احتوت عليه، وفي بعض الأحيان قد يكون معها التقليل.

It is an indication of the self and what it contains; at times it may carry a sense of diminution.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī

ي

فهي للنداء، وقد يؤكد بها.

It is for the vocative (calling), and it may be used for emphasis.

فهي إشارة إلى الشيء الذي لا يثبت كالبرق ونحوه.

It is an indication of the thing that does not remain fixed, like lightning and the like.

فهي إشارة إلى الشيء الذي يستحيا به أو يستحيا منه كالعورة.

It is an indication of the thing that causes shame, or of which one is ashamed, like the private parts.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī

ض

عبارة عن الصحة وعدم البلاء.

It expresses health and the absence of affliction.

فهي إشارة إلى الشيء الذي لا نور فيه أو لا ظلام فيه.

It is an indication of the thing in which there is no light, or no darkness.

فهي عبارة عن الخضوع.

It expresses submissiveness/humility.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī
Two-letter nucleus5 roots in Ibn Fāris’s chapterف ي

Ibn Fāris groups his roots under two-letter chapters (“the X and the Y and what makes them three”). These are the roots of this root's chapter with the core sense he gives each. Setting them side by side is our juxtaposition; he does not himself draw a shared meaning. His chapter heading, line 24603 ↗

  • فيجالفاء والياء والجيم يدل على الإسراع ومن ذلك الفيج وقد مضى ذكره ويقال أصله واو والفائجة في الأرض متسع ما بين كل مرتفعين من غلظ أو رملL24604
  • فيخالفاء والياء والخاء كلمة يقولون أفاخ يفيخ بريحه وفي الحديث ( كل بائلة تفيخ ) ويقولون وما أراها صحيحة إن الفيخة الشكرجةL24608
  • فيضالفاء والياء والضاد أصل صحيح واحد يدل على جريان الشيء بسهولة ثم يقاس عليهQ 9 · L24627
  • فيقالفاء والياء والقاف الفيقة قد مضى ذكرها والأصل الواو وهو ما اجتمع من الدرة في الضرعL24644
  • فيلالفاء والياء واللام أصل يدل على استرخاء وضعفQ 1 · L24645
In the sister scriptsHebrew פ י צSyriac ܦ ܝ ܥ
Arabicف ي ض
Hebrewפ י צ
Syriacܦ ܝ ܥ
Ancient South Arabian (musnad)𐩰 𐩺 𐩳
Phoenician𐤐 𐤉 𐤑

Letter for letter, by the regular sound correspondences of the Semitic languages (Arabic keeps several sounds the others merged). This shows how the root would be spelled; whether a related word exists is a separate question, answered in the Semitic lens. Where an Arabic sibilant (s, sh) continues two older sounds, both spellings are shown.

  • Classical lexiconThe al-ʿAyn, al-Ṣiḥāḥ, al-Mufradāt, and Lisān excerpts supplied here in fact describe the neighboring root f-w-ḍ (fawwaḍa 'to delegate, entrust', tafwīḍ 'marriage without a stipulated dower', qawm fawḍā 'a leaderless crowd') rather than f-y-ḍ, the two being easily confused in unvocalized script;well attested

    The lexicographers in chronological order, from al-Khalīl to Lane.

    The al-ʿAyn, al-Ṣiḥāḥ, al-Mufradāt, and Lisān excerpts supplied here in fact describe the neighboring root f-w-ḍ (fawwaḍa 'to delegate, entrust', tafwīḍ 'marriage without a stipulated dower', qawm fawḍā 'a leaderless crowd') rather than f-y-ḍ, the two being easily confused in unvocalized script; I therefore ground the classical development only in Ibn Fāris and Lane, who do treat f-y-ḍ. Ibn Fāris gives it one sound sense, the easy flowing of a thing, from which he derives fāḍa l-māʾ 'the water overflowed', afāḍa l-qawm min ʿArafah 'the pilgrims surged forth from ʿArafah' (Q2:199), afāḍū fīhi 'they poured forth in speaking of it' (Q24:14), and afāḍa bi-l-qidāḥ 'he cast the divining arrows', all likened to a torrent's flow. Lane confirms this: fāḍa, yafīḍu, said of water, 'overflowed, poured out or forth from fulness', becoming so abundant it runs over the brink of a valley; afāḍa is the causative. Across the tradition the sense generalizes from literal overflow of water to any abundant outpouring of people, speech, or tears.

    Draws on: Ibn Fāris · Lane

    • Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lugha, f-y-ḍ
    • Lane, Lexicon, s.v. فاض
  • Letters & soundIn the akbarī heaven-correspondence scheme fāʾ is assigned to the angels and, per al-Dabbāgh, negates foulness within a genus otherwise known for it, marking purity amid impurity;speculative

    What the theorists of sound symbolism would say of these letters. Speculative by nature.

    In the akbarī heaven-correspondence scheme fāʾ is assigned to the angels and, per al-Dabbāgh, negates foulness within a genus otherwise known for it, marking purity amid impurity; yāʾ is assigned to the First Heaven and functions as vocative or emphatic, a calling-forth; ḍād is assigned to the Second Heaven and expresses health and freedom from affliction. Read together, fayḍ could be heard as a purifying summons toward wellness — an outpouring that both calls and heals — which resonates with the akbarian sense of fayḍ as gracious effusion. This is offered as suggestive resonance only: mainstream historical linguistics finds no causal link between individual Arabic letters and lexical meaning, and this reading belongs to a distinct symbolic-mystical register.

    Draws on: akbari198 · dabbagh_fatha

    • al-Dabbāgh, letter meanings (internal scheme)
  • Root structureIbn Fāris's fāʾ-yāʾ chapter groups f-y-ḍ with fayj (haste, swift going), faykh (a dubious entry on wind), fīqa (milk gathering anew in the udder), and fayl (slackness, weakness) — a set of low-effort natural processes rather than a single coherent meta-sense.plausible

    The two-letter nucleus (Ibn Fāris's own chapters) and the permutations of the letters (Ibn Jinnī).

    Ibn Fāris's fāʾ-yāʾ chapter groups f-y-ḍ with fayj (haste, swift going), faykh (a dubious entry on wind), fīqa (milk gathering anew in the udder), and fayl (slackness, weakness) — a set of low-effort natural processes rather than a single coherent meta-sense. Among permutations of the three radicals, the only one independently attested and Quranically frequent is ḍ-y-f: ḍayf 'guest' (6 occurrences), which Ibn Fāris glosses as 'the inclination of a thing toward a thing'. This is a juxtaposition only, not an asserted derivation: nothing in the lexicographical record connects fayḍ to ḍayf, but the shared letters invite the image of the guest as one who inclines toward, or overflows into, the host's dwelling, as water inclines toward the lower ground.

    Draws on: nucleusSiblings · permutations

    • Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lugha, ḍ-y-f
    • Ibn Jinnī, al-Khaṣāʾiṣ, al-ishtiqāq al-akbar (link not verified)
  • Semitic kin & loanwordsNo confident Semitic cognate is established for f-y-ḍ.uncertain

    Cognates in the sister languages, and whether the word was borrowed.

    No confident Semitic cognate is established for f-y-ḍ. Hebrew pwṣ ('to scatter, be dispersed', also used of waters bursting forth) is sometimes loosely compared, but the correspondence between Arabic's weak middle yāʾ and Hebrew's wāw is not a regular, settled sound-correspondence, so the comparison remains speculative rather than confident. The word shows a fully native Arabic derivational family (fāʾiḍ, mustafīḍ, mufāḍa, istifāḍa) typical of a sound triliteral root, giving no internal evidence of borrowing. It is not treated here as a loanword.

    Draws on: general Semitic comparison

  • Quranic exegesisIn the Hajj verses (Q2:198–199) al-Ṭabarī and al-Zamakhsharī gloss afāḍa/ifāḍa as the mass surge of pilgrims departing ʿArafāt for Muzdalifah, so dense and continuous a movement that the exegetes compare it explicitly to the flowing of water, matching Ibn Fāris's core sense.well attested

    How the classical exegetes read the word in the Quran.

    In the Hajj verses (Q2:198–199) al-Ṭabarī and al-Zamakhsharī gloss afāḍa/ifāḍa as the mass surge of pilgrims departing ʿArafāt for Muzdalifah, so dense and continuous a movement that the exegetes compare it explicitly to the flowing of water, matching Ibn Fāris's core sense. Al-Rāzī treats al-ifāḍa min ʿArafah as the technical name of this ritual station of the Hajj. In Q5:83 and Q9:92, tafīḍu... min al-damʿ ('the eyes overflow with tears') extends the same image to weeping: exegetes read the eye as a vessel too full to contain its grief or its recognition of truth, so that tears run over the brim exactly as water overflows a full vessel.

  • Philosophy & kalāmIn falsafa fayḍ is the standing term for emanation: the necessary, undiminishing overflow of existence from the First Cause through the hierarchy of intellects and spheres to the sublunary world.well attested

    The word as a technical term in falsafa and theology.

    In falsafa fayḍ is the standing term for emanation: the necessary, undiminishing overflow of existence from the First Cause through the hierarchy of intellects and spheres to the sublunary world. Al-Fārābī and Avicenna use fayḍ to explain how a simple, self-sufficient First can be the source of multiplicity without change or intention in It, each intellect emanating a further intellect, soul, and sphere by contemplating its cause and its own contingency. Al-Ghazālī, in Tahāfut al-Falāsifa, attacks this scheme precisely at the point where it makes God's causation automatic and non-volitional, arguing it compromises divine freedom and power. The term thus carries, across the falsafa-kalām divide, the whole dispute over necessary versus willed creation.

  • Akbarian readingIn Faṣṣ Ādam, Ibn ʿArabī ties fayḍ to the doctrine of perpetual self-disclosure (tajallī dāʾim): what a receptive form gains is never a new creation but the coming of its readiness (istiʿdād) to receive the effusion of the eternal, ongoing tajallī.well attested

    The word in Ibn ʿArabī's text and terminology.

    In Faṣṣ Ādam, Ibn ʿArabī ties fayḍ to the doctrine of perpetual self-disclosure (tajallī dāʾim): what a receptive form gains is never a new creation but the coming of its readiness (istiʿdād) to receive the effusion of the eternal, ongoing tajallī. He states that nothing remains but the receiver (qābil), and that the receiver exists only through God's Most Holy Effusion (al-fayḍ al-aqdas) — the primordial self-disclosure by which the fixed entities (aʿyān thābita) are constituted in God's knowledge, prior to and distinct from the Holy Effusion (al-fayḍ al-muqaddas) that brings them into external existence. Fayḍ here names not episodic giving but the continuous ontological pouring by which possibility becomes capable of receiving being.

    Draws on: Fass Adam

    • Ibn ʿArabī, Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam, Faṣṣ Ādam
  • Illuminationist readingSuhrawardī inherits the Avicennian vocabulary of fayḍ but recasts emanation as an irradiation of light from the Light of Lights (Nūr al-Anwār) rather than an abstract causal overflow between discrete intellects.plausible

    The word in Suhrawardī's philosophy of light.

    Suhrawardī inherits the Avicennian vocabulary of fayḍ but recasts emanation as an irradiation of light from the Light of Lights (Nūr al-Anwār) rather than an abstract causal overflow between discrete intellects. He retains fayḍ-language for the derivation of subordinate lights from higher ones, but subordinates it to his own governing term ishrāq (illumination), since for him what is fundamentally transmitted is not being as such but light and self-manifestation. The shift keeps fayḍ's sense of effortless, abundant outpouring while relocating its metaphysical ground from existence to luminosity.

    Draws on: light/emanation

Neighbouring rootsThe roots that share letters with this one, as a map you can open out