Grammar term · Sarf · morphology
مُجَرَّد
mujarrad
Bare (unaugmented) root — Trilateral
Sarf · morphologyRoot size & augmentationcore term18,788+ in the Qur'an
In one line
The bare verb: nothing but root letters — كَتَبَ is three radicals, no additions, the root in its plainest dress.
Classical definition
المُجَرَّدُ مَا كَانَتْ جَمِيعُ حُرُوفِهِ أَصْلِيَّةً لَا زِيَادَةَ فِيهَا، ثُلَاثِيًّا أَوْ رُبَاعِيًّا.
“The mujarrad is that all of whose letters are root letters with no addition — three-lettered or four-lettered.”
(بتصرف من شذا العرف)
Key words in the Arabic
حُرُوفُهُ أَصْلِيَّةٌall its letters are root
لَا زِيَادَةَ فِيهَاnothing added
Understand it
Strip a verb to letters that cannot be removed without killing the meaning and you have the mujarrad: كَتَبَ، خَلَقَ، جَلَسَ (three radicals) or دَحْرَجَ (four). It is the trunk of the derivation tree — every mazid form, every mushtaqq noun, grows by adding letters to this bare stock. Sarf's first question about any word is: what is its mujarrad?
How to spot it
Recognition test
Delete every candidate extra letter (سـ، ا، ت، ن، doubling…): if what remains is exactly the root — check against the dictionary — the original was mazid and what you hold now is its mujarrad.
In the Qur'an
خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ
Al-Alaq 96:2 — “He created man from a clinging clot”
خَلَقَ — three radicals, nothing added: a mujarrad verb of the fatah gate.
Forms it takes
ثلاثي مجردرباعي مجردخماسي مجردرباعي
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