Quranic root
أود
ʾ · w · d
The root centers on bending, curving, and inclination.
The physical image extends to weight or an affair that bends a person down, yielding the sense of burdening or distressing.
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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.
آدَ
ʾāda
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
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- Quran occurrences
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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 burden, weigh heavily upon, or tire someone.
Transitive Form I. In the Quranic occurrence, the preservation of the heavens and earth is said not to burden or tire God; the object is expressed by a pronoun.
- Lane · entry 7475
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:255word 46
“tires Him”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:255يَـُٔودُهُۥtires Him
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 8 Classical meanings
أَوِدَ
To be or become crooked, curved, or bent.
Intransitive Form I.
- Lane · entry 7475
آدَ
To recede or decline, especially toward evening; to return; of shadows, to return and incline toward the east.
Reported of the day, evening, things, and shadows in the cited constructions.
- Lane · entry 7475
آدَ عَلَيْهِ
To incline toward someone or take pity on him.
Occurs in the construction آدَ عَلَيْهِ.
- Lane · entry 7475
آدَهُ
To bend, curve, or crook something.
Transitive Form I; said of a stick or other thing.
- Lane · entry 7475
تَأَوَّدَ
To become crooked, curved, or bent through an extraneous or acquired action.
Intransitive Form V; it can also describe bending while rising because of heaviness.
- Lane · entry 7477
اِنْآدَ / آئِدٌ / مَؤُودٌ
In derived constructions: to become burdened or oppressed by a load; to be burdening or distressing; or to be burdened or pressed heavily by a load.
The forms include an intransitive verb and active and passive participles. A related transposed construction is used of an affair pressing heavily upon someone.
- Lane · entry 7475
- Lane · entry 7479
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أَوِدٌ / آوَدُ
Crooked, curved, or bent.
Adjectival usage; a feminine form أَوْدَاءُ is also reported.
- Lane · entry 7480
مَآوِدُ
Calamities or afflictions.
The word is reported either as lacking a singular or as a plural analyzed in another way.
- Lane · entry 7484
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic imperfect يَـُٔودُ is presented under the normalized perfect citation form آدَ; the separate intransitive أَوِدَ remains a Classical Arabic meaning and is not merged with the Quranic form.
A Quran reference in the Form V discussion is an illustrative grammatical analogy, not a QAC occurrence of this root.
The root-level lexicon also records أَوْد as a tribal name and أُود as a place-name; the derivation of the tribal name is left uncertain.