Quranic root
ذخر
dh · kh · r
The root centers on securing something and keeping it preserved.
This develops into storing, hoarding, reserving, and preparing provisions for future need. The lexical family also extends to bodily spaces conceived as receptacles; the plant name إِذْخِرٌ is explicitly treated as unrelated to this semantic root.
- Maqāyīs · row 1886
- Mufradāt · row 500
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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.
اِدَّخَرَ
āiddakhara
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
- VIII
- 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 store, hoard, or lay something up for future need.
The supplied Quran occurrence describes keeping something stored in one's house. The derived verb may also frame such storage as preparation for what lies ahead, including preparation for the hereafter.
- Lane · entry 21374
- Lane · entry 21375
- Mufradāt · row 500
Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:49word 35
“you store”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 3:49تَدَّخِرُونَyou store
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 9 Classical meanings
ذَخَرَ
To choose or select something and take it for oneself, or prepare it for oneself.
A lexical extension of the basic act of laying something up or securing it for personal use.
- Lane · entry 21374
ذَخَرَ
To reserve or preserve something for oneself, including a good story or good advice retained inwardly.
Figurative examples extend the idea of laying something up to remembered speech and inwardly retained counsel.
- Lane · entry 21374
ذُخْرٌ
A store, treasure, or provision laid up for future need.
Nominal designation for something secured and kept in reserve.
- Lane · entry 21374
ذَخِيرَةٌ
A stored reserve, treasured provision, or thing laid up for need.
It is also used figuratively of wealth devoted to pious purposes and of believers' deeds laid up as provision for the Day of Resurrection.
- Lane · entry 21377
ذَاخِرٌ
Fat or corpulent, used as an epithet.
A rare adjectival or epithet use.
- Lane · entry 21378
إِذْخِرٌ
A sweet-smelling rush or herb, identified with plants such as juncus odoratus or schoenanthum.
The plant is used for roofing and graves and as an ingredient in perfumes; it is lexically distinguished from the storage root.
- Lane · entry 21379
مِذْخَرٌ
The inner parts of the body, especially the intestines, lower belly, veins, or the bodily parts in which an animal stores fodder and water.
The plural مَذَاخِرُ is used in expressions where filling these parts means becoming satiated.
- Lane · entry 21380
- Mufradāt · row 500
مِذْخَرٌ
In a figurative idiom, the heart or inner seat that can be filled with enmity.
This meaning is attested in the expression مَلَأَ فِي مَذَاخِرِهِ عَدَاوَةً, 'he filled his heart with enmity.'
- Lane · entry 21380
مُدَّخِرٌ
A horse that reserves some of its running power for a time of need.
A specialized equine description; the related variant مُذَّخِرٌ is also recorded.
- Lane · entry 21374
- Lane · entry 21381
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The single QAC occurrence is an imperfect Form VIII verb; the public headword is normalized to the perfect citation form اِدَّخَرَ.
إِذْخِرٌ, the fragrant plant name, is explicitly distinguished from the storage-related root despite its similar spelling.