فجر

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fa.d͡ʒa.ra/

Verb

فَجَرَ • (fajara) I (non-past يَفْجُرُ (yafjuru), verbal noun فَجْر (fajr))

1. to cleave, to break up, to dig up

Verb

فَجَرَ • (fajara) I (non-past يَفْجُرُ (yafjuru), verbal noun فُجُور (fujūr))

1. to act immorally, to be wicked, to sin
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 75:5:

     بَلْ يُرِيدُ الْإِنْسَانُ لِيَفْجُرَ أَمَامَهُ

     bal yurīdu l-ʔinsānu liyafjura ʔamāmahu

     but man desires to act sinfully in what is before him

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fad͡ʒ.d͡ʒa.ra/

Verb

فَجَّرَ • (fajjara) II (non-past يُفَجِّرُ (yufajjiru), verbal noun تَفْجِير (tafjīr))

1. to create an outlet or passage (for water)
2. to let pour forth
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 82:1-5:

     إِذَا السَّمَاء ٱنْفَطَرَتْ ۝ وَإِذَا ٱلْكَوَاكِبُ ٱنْتَثَرَتْ ۝ وَإِذَا ٱلْبِحَارُ فُجِّرَتْ ۝ وَإِذَا ٱلْقُبُورُ بُعْثِرَتْ ۝ عَلِمَتْ نَفْسٌ مَّا قَدَّمَتْ وَأَخَّرَتْ ۝

     When the sky breaks apart / And when the stars commence to scatter / And when the seas gush forth / And when the graves are strewn / A soul will know what it has put forward and what it has set back.

3. to cleave, to split
4. to explode

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fad͡ʒr/

Noun

فَجْر • (fajr) m

1. verbal noun of فَجَرَ (fajara, “to break up, to sin”) (form I)
2. daybreak; dawn

   Synonyms: فَلَق (falaq), (archaic) صُبْح (ṣubḥ), (literary) غَدَاة (ḡadāh), (literary) بُكْرَة (bukra)

   Coordinate terms: شَفَق (šafaq, “the evening twilight, afterglow; gloaming”), غَسَق (ḡasaq, “dusk”)

   فِي الْفَجْرِ الْبَاكِرِ، كَانَتِ الشُّوَارِعُ هَادِئَةً وَخَالِيَةً مِنَ الزُّحَامِ.

   fī al-fajri al-bākiri, kānati š-šuwāriʕu hādiʔatan waḵāliyatan mina z-zuḥāmi.

   In the early dawn, the streets were quiet and free from traffic.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 97:5:

     سَلَامٌ هِيَ حَتَّى مَطْلَعِ الْفَجْرِ

     salāmun hiya ḥattā maṭlaʕi l-fajri

     Abdulala Maududi: All peace is that night until the rise of dawn.

3. (figuratively) dawn, beginning, outset, start

Noun

فَجْر • (fajr) f

1. the morning prayer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.d͡ʒir/, /fa.d͡ʒur/

Noun

فَجِر or فَجُر • (fajir or fajur) m

1. dawn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu.d͡ʒur/

Noun

فُجُر • (fujur) m

1. wickedness

   Synonym: فُجور (fujūr)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.d͡ʒar/

Verb

فَجَر • (fajar) I (non-past يِفْجُر (yifjur))

1. to debauch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fad͡ʒ.d͡ʒar/

Verb

فَجَّر • (fajjar) II (non-past يِفَجِّر (yifajjir))

1. to bomb
2. to blow up

Descendants

• → Urdu: فجر (fajr)

See also

• (times of day) أوقات اليوم (ʔawʔāt il-yōm); نهار (nhār, “daytime”), فجر (fajr, “dawn”), صبحية (ṣabaḥiyye, “early morning”), صبح (ṣubḥ, “morning”), ضهر (ḍuhr, “noon”), عصر (ʕaṣr, “late afternoon”), مغرب (maḡreb, “sunset”), مسا (masa, “evening”), ليل (lēl, “nighttime”) ^{(Category: ajp:Times of day)}