Arabic root

س-ر-ج

Sin-Ra-Jim

1 word from this root family

About this root

Sin-Ra-Jim (س-ر-ج) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: sirāj (lamp / torch / illuminating light).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 4 times in 4 verses, across 4 of the 114 suras. The first is in 25:61. The form سِرَاجٌ (lamp / torch / illuminating light) accounts for all of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
سِرَاجٌ sirāj	lamp / torch / illuminating light	noun, B1	4×	The Natural World in the Quran

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

تَبَارَكَ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ بُرُوجًا وَجَعَلَ فِيهَا سِرَٰجًا وَقَمَرًا مُّنِيرًا

Blessed be He Who hath placed in the heaven mansions of the stars, and hath placed therein a great lamp and a moon giving light!

Quran 25:61

وَدَاعِيًا إِلَى ٱللَّهِ بِإِذْنِهِۦ وَسِرَاجًا مُّنِيرًا

And as a summoner unto Allah by His permission, and as a lamp that giveth light.

Quran 33:46

وَجَعَلَ ٱلْقَمَرَ فِيهِنَّ نُورًا وَجَعَلَ ٱلشَّمْسَ سِرَاجًا

And hath made the moon a light therein, and made the sun a lamp?

Quran 71:16

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

B1noun

سِرَاجٌ

sirāj

lamp / torch / illuminating light

Example

وَجَعَلَ فِيهَا سِرَاجًا وَقَمَرًا مُنِيرًا

wa-jaʿala fīhā sirājan wa-qamaran munīrā

And placed therein a lamp (the sun) and a luminous moon (25:61)

Root: س-ر-ج Quranic

Grammar

Masculine noun. Plural: سُرُجٌ (suruj). Used for the sun (سِرَاجٌ وَهَّاجٌ, blazing lamp, 78:13). Also describes the Prophet: سِرَاجًا مُنِيرًا (33:46).

Culture

The Quran uses different words for light sources: the sun is a sirāj (lamp), while the moon has reflected nūr (light) - scientifically accurate imagery.