Dictionaries

  • Ejtaal Arabic Almanac: Lane's Lexicon, Hans Wehr, Lisan al-Arab and others
  • Perseus: Lane's Lexicon (in text format)
    • mrj
    • mrj (if it is not found in the link above)
The root mrj (م ر ج) occurs 6 times in Quran, in 4 derived forms:
  • 1 times as active noun marj
  • 1 times as adjective mryj
  • 2 times as verb mrj
  • 2 times as noun mrjan

marj

1

whereas the invisible beings He has created out of a confusing flame of fire.*
Nay, but they [who refuse to believe in resurrection] have been wont to give the lie to this truth whenever it was proffered to them; and so they are in a state of confusion.*

mrj

3

AND HE it is who has given freedom of movement to the two great bodies of water –* the one sweet and thirst-allaying, and the other salty and bitter - and yet has wrought between them a barrier and a forbidding ban.*
He has given freedom to the two great bodies of water, so that they might meet:
Out of these two [bodies of water] come forth pearls, both great and small.

6

[When you are promised splendours] as though [of] rubies and [of] pearls –