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Arabic root

ج-و-ع

Jim-Waw-Ayn

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About this root

Jim-Waw-Ayn (ج-و-ع) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: jāʾiʿ (hungry).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 5 times in 5 verses, across 5 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:155.

Themes: Adjectives, Basics

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
جَائِع
jāʾiʿ
hungryadjective, A1Spices, Sweets & More Food

In the Quran

وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُم بِشَىْءٍ مِّنَ ٱلْخَوْفِ وَٱلْجُوعِ وَنَقْصٍ مِّنَ ٱلْأَمْوَٰلِ وَٱلْأَنفُسِ وَٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ ۗ وَبَشِّرِ ٱلصَّـٰبِرِينَ

And surely We shall try you with something of fear and hunger, and loss of wealth and lives and crops; but give glad tidings to the steadfast,

Quran 2:155
وَضَرَبَ ٱللَّهُ مَثَلًا قَرْيَةً كَانَتْ ءَامِنَةً مُّطْمَئِنَّةً يَأْتِيهَا رِزْقُهَا رَغَدًا مِّن كُلِّ مَكَانٍ فَكَفَرَتْ بِأَنْعُمِ ٱللَّهِ فَأَذَٰقَهَا ٱللَّهُ لِبَاسَ ٱلْجُوعِ وَٱلْخَوْفِ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَصْنَعُونَ

Allah coineth a similitude: a township that dwelt secure and well content, its provision coming to it in abundance from every side, but it disbelieved in Allah's favours, so Allah made it experience the garb of dearth and fear because of what they used to do.

Quran 16:112
إِنَّ لَكَ أَلَّا تَجُوعَ فِيهَا وَلَا تَعْرَىٰ

It is (vouchsafed) unto thee that thou hungerest not therein nor art naked,

Quran 20:118

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

A1adjective
جَائِع
jāʾiʿ

hungry

Example
أَنَا جَائِعٌ جِدًّا
anā jāʾiʿun jiddan
I am very hungry

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