Quranic root
شيد
sh · y · d
The root centers on raising something upward, especially by building it up or making it high.
This orientation extends from raising a structure with gypsum or mortar to making a building lofty or strongly constructed, and figuratively to raising the voice or publicizing something.
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- Quran senses
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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.
مَشِيدٌ
mashīdun
- Part of speech
- Passive participle · Form I
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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Plastered with gypsum or similar mortar; built using such material.
Applied to a palace or other structure, including the Quranic expression قَصْرٍ مَشِيدٍ.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 22:45word 14
“lofty”
Built up high; lofty, of a palace or other structure.
The high or lofty interpretation is closely related to the elevation produced by the building or plastering described in the first sense.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 22:45word 14
“lofty”
مُشَيَّدٌ
mushayyadun
- Part of speech
- Passive participle · Form II
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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Firmly or extensively built, including construction with gypsum or similar plaster.
Applied to a building or structure; the Quranic surface form is مُشَيَّدَةٌ.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:78word 9
“lofty”
Raised high; lofty or high-built, of a building.
The Form II passive can carry the implication of repeated or extensive building, by which a structure becomes high; the Quranic occurrence is the lexical plural form مُشَيَّدَةٌ.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:78word 9
“lofty”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 11 Classical meanings
شَادَ
To plaster a wall with gypsum or similar material; to build a structure with it.
Form I active verb.
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شَادَ
To strengthen and exalt something figuratively, as in strengthening or exalting a religion.
A metaphorical usage, also associated with the meanings of شَيَّدَ and أَشَادَ.
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شِيَادٌ
Calling camels, including raising the voice while doing so.
An infinitival usage in the construction شَادَ بِالإِبِلِ.
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شِيَادٌ
Rubbing the skin with perfume.
An attributed infinitival usage of شَادَ; the lexicographic transmission records textual variation around its form.
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شَادَ
To perish or die.
Recorded as a verbal usage said of a man.
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شَيَّدَ
To build firmly or strongly and raise high, especially a palace or other building.
Form II may imply repeated or extensive building.
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أَشَادَ
To raise the voice in proclaiming something, make it known, or publicize it; by extension, to raise a person's fame or publish a favorable or unfavorable report.
Used with constructions such as أَشَادَ بِهِ, أَشَادَ بِذِكْرِهِ, and أَشَادَ عَلَيْهِ.
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إِشَادَةٌ
Destruction.
A figurative infinitival usage.
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شَيْدٌ
Possessed, insane, or intoxicated.
A Persian-derived homograph identified as distinct from the native lexical development of شيد.
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شِيدٌ
Gypsum or similar material used to plaster a wall; mortar or clay-like plaster.
Names the construction material rather than the completed building.
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شِيدٌ
A fortress or fortified place.
An attributed regional usage.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The modern Quran locations shown here are the QAC-supplied locations; historical citation notation in the lexical discussion has not been converted into modern verse numbering.
The interpretations 'built or plastered with gypsum' and 'lofty' are closely connected in the evidence, with loftiness presented as the result or characterization of elevated construction.
شَيْدٌ meaning possessed, insane, or intoxicated is explicitly identified as Persian-derived and is retained as a homographic lexical item rather than assumed to be a native root derivative.