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فرت

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to water, specifically describing extremely sweet and refreshing water. It also extends to geographical names, personal names, and less commonly, to concepts of mental weakness or immorality.

Derived headwords

الفُرَاتُname
  1. 1.
    Euphrates Riverboth

    A major river in Western Asia, known for its sweet water.

  2. 2.
    Extremely sweet waterclassical

    Water that is exceptionally sweet and refreshing, capable of quenching thirst.

فَرَتَverb
  1. 1.
    to be sweetclassical

    Said of water, meaning it is extremely sweet and refreshing.

  2. 2.
    to weaken mentallyclassical

    Said of a person, meaning their intellect has weakened after a period of soundness.

  3. 3.
    to fornicateclassical

    Said of a woman, meaning she is a fornicator.

فَرُوتَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    sweetnessclassical

    The quality of being extremely sweet, referring to water.

فُرَاتٌadjective
  1. 1.
    extremely sweetboth

    Describing water that is intensely sweet and thirst-quenching.

فَرَتَverb
  1. 1.
    to fornicateclassical

    Said of a woman, meaning she is a fornicator. This is considered a quadriliteral root by some.

فَرْتَنِيname
  1. 1.
    Fartaniclassical

    A proper name, referring to one of the two singing girls of Ibn al-Khattal.

الفَرْتُnoun
  1. 1.
    Fatrclassical

    A variant pronunciation or reading, considered an inversion of 'Fatr'.

مِيَاهٌ فُرْتَانٌnoun
  1. 1.
    very sweet watersclassical

    Plural form indicating multiple bodies of water that are extremely sweet.

مِيَاهٌ فُرَاتٌnoun
  1. 1.
    very sweet watersclassical

    Plural form indicating multiple bodies of water that are extremely sweet.

Parallel reading

الفرات، كغراب، يكتب بالتاء والهاء، لغتات فصيحتان مشهورتان
Al-Furat, like ghurab, is written with ta' and ha', two eloquent and famous variants.
الماء العذب جدا
Extremely sweet water.
الشديد العذوبة
Intensely sweet.
القامع للعطش لفرط عذوبته
The quencher of thirst due to its extreme sweetness.
لأنه لا يرفث العطش، أي يسكنه
Because it does not 'rafath' (quench) thirst, meaning it stills it.
هو أشد الماء عذوبة
It is the sweetest of waters.
هاذا عذب فرات وهاذا ملح أجاج
This is fresh water, sweet, and this is salt, bitter.
الفرات: اسم نهر بالكوفة معروف بين الشام والجزيرة
Al-Furat: The name of a river in Kufa, known between the Levant and Mesopotamia.
الفرات: نهر عظيم مشهور يخرج من آخر حدود الروم ويمر بأطراف الشام، ثم بالكوفة، ثم بالحلة، ثم يلتقي مع دجلة في البطائح، ويصيران نهرا واحدا، ثم يصب عند عبادان في بحر فارس
Al-Furat: A great, famous river that emerges from the borders of Rome and passes by the edges of the Levant, then Kufa, then Hilla, then meets with Tigris in the marshes, and they become one river, then it empties near Abadan into the Persian Gulf.
فرت الماء، فروتة، إذا عذب
The water was 'farata', and it had 'farutah', if it was sweet.
فرت الرجل، إذا ضعف عقله بعد مسكة
The man 'farata', if his intellect weakened after soundness.
فرت ارجل يفرت فرتا: فجر
She 'farata' (fornicates), 'yafirtu', 'fartan': she commits adultery.
وهي المرأة الفاجرة
And she is the immoral woman.
فرتني: إحدى قينتي ابن خطل المأمور بقتله
Fartani: One of the two singing girls of Ibn al-Khattal, who was ordered to be killed.
الفراتان: الفرات ودجيل
The two Furats: The Euphrates and the Dujayl.