Quranic root
شرد
sh · r · d
A single root principle of causing fright and driving away, together with fleeing and becoming distant in a scattered manner.
The causative branch develops from flight and expulsion to dispersing others. In the Quranic use, treating one group in a conspicuous way makes it a deterrent that drives those who come after away.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
شَرَّدَ
sharrada
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
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- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To disperse or scatter those who follow, causing them to flee.
In the Quranic construction فَشَرِّدْ بِهِمْ مَنْ خَلْفَهُمْ, the group treated in this way becomes the means by which those behind are driven away and scattered.
- Lane · entry 38257
Selected Quran examples
Quran 8:57word 5
“disperse”
To make a group notorious or terrifying as an example, so that others are deterred from similar opposition or conduct.
A deterrent or exemplary use of the construction with بِـ; the conspicuous treatment of one group warns and frightens those who come after them.
- Lane · entry 38257
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 8:57word 5
“disperse”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 8:57فَشَرِّدْdisperse
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 12 Classical meanings
شَرَدَ
Of an animal, to take fright or shy, flee or run away at random, become refractory, or break loose and go hither and thither.
Used especially of camels, horses, and similar animals; the meaning combines flight with unpredictable or refractory movement.
- Lane · entry 38256
شَرَدَ
To depart, flee, go away or aside, or be driven away.
Applied to a person or other subject in expressions of going away from someone or withdrawing from a place; with عَلَى اللهِ, it can denote departing from obedience to God and separating from the faithful community.
- Lane · entry 38256
شَرَّدَ
To cause someone or an animal to take fright and flee, become refractory, or break loose; to drive away or expel.
A general transitive causative use, including driving a subject away from the speaker or from a place, apart from the specifically deterrent Quranic construction.
- Lane · entry 38257
أَشْرَدَ
To cause someone to be driven away or expelled, leaving him without a place of refuge, shelter, or lodging.
A Form IV causative construction concerning expulsion and the loss of a place of refuge.
- Lane · entry 38258
تَشَرَّدَ
For a people or party to go away or depart.
An intransitive Form V use with a collective subject.
- Lane · entry 38259
شِرَادٌ
A taking fright or shying and fleeing or running away at random; a disposition to do so.
A verbal noun or simple noun denoting either the act or the disposition associated with شَرَدَ.
- Lane · entry 38261
شَرِيدٌ
One driven away or expelled; a fugitive.
The fugitive sense is especially reported when the word occurs with طَرِيدٌ.
- Lane · entry 38263
شَرِيدٌ
One who is alone or solitary.
A distinct adjectival or substantive use of the same headword.
- Lane · entry 38263
شَرِيدٌ
A remainder or remnant of something, such as water, property, or livestock, deviating from the usual rule or pattern.
A specialized nominal use for what remains apart from the main body or regular arrangement.
- Lane · entry 38263
شَارِدٌ
Of an animal, taking fright or shying and fleeing or running away at random; refractory or prone to break loose.
Applied to male or female animals, especially camels, horses, and the like.
- Lane · entry 38264
شَارِدٌ
Of a rhyme, verse, or poem, circulating through lands, regions, cities, or towns.
A figurative use in the phrase قافية شاردة and related expressions.
- Lane · entry 38264
شَارِدٌ
Of a rhyme, verse, poem, word, or expression, strange, unusual, unfamiliar, or extraordinary; in lexicology, a barbarism.
A figurative and technical use opposed to a fully idiomatic or eloquent expression.
- Lane · entry 38264
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The single Quranic occurrence is the imperative شَرِّدْ. Its closely related lexical readings include dispersing or scattering, terrifying, and making a group notorious as a deterrent; these are represented as two Quranic senses rather than treating the contextual gloss alone as a separate meaning.