Quranic root
أيد
ʾ · y · d
A root oriented toward strength and safeguarding: giving force, reinforcing, or protecting something.
The semantic field develops from inherent strength to strengthening and aiding persons, and to protective supports, barriers, refuges, and fortifications.
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- Quran-attested forms
- 3
- Quran senses
- 11
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
أَيَّدَ
ʾayyada
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
- II
- Quran occurrences
- 9 occurrences
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 strengthen or empower someone by imparting force.
Used transitively for giving substantial strength or power; the Quranic construction أَيَّدْتُكَ بِرُوحِ الْقُدُسِ expresses strengthening through the Holy Spirit.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:110word 13
“I strengthened you”
Quran 2:253word 19
“and We supported him”
To support or aid someone, especially to help accomplish an undertaking or to grant victory.
The supported person may be aided in an affair or helped to prevail; the construction أَيَّدَهُ عَلَى الأَمْرِ expresses aid toward accomplishing an affair, while support associated with divine victory is also attested.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:13word 20
“supports”
Quran 9:40word 28
“and supported him”
أَيْدٌ
ʾaydun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Strength, force, or might.
Used in constructions describing possession of strength and acting with strength, including ذُو الْأَيْدِ and بِأَيْدٍ.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 38:17word 9
“the possessor of strength”
Quran 51:47word 3
“with strength”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:87وَأَيَّدْنَـٰهُand We supported him
- 2:253وَأَيَّدْنَـٰهُand We supported him
- 3:13يُؤَيِّدُsupports
- 5:110أَيَّدتُّكَI strengthened you
- 8:26وَأَيَّدَكُمand strengthened you
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 13 Classical meanings
آدَ
To be or become strong; to become possessed of strength.
An intransitive Form I verb, also used of a thing that becomes strong.
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أَيِّدٌ
Strong or mighty; an epithet for one characterized by strength.
Applied to God or to a human being; the poetic example presents a strong agent as one who strings a bow.
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أَيِّدٌ
A person who is frequently present at the morning and evening meals.
A conventional figurative expression describing repeated attendance at meals.
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- Lane · entry 7591
تَأَيَّدَ
To become strengthened.
An intransitive Form V usage, applied to a person or thing.
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إِيَادٌ
A means of strengthening, guarding, defending, protecting, veiling, or concealing; hence shelter, shade, or refuge.
Names something that protects or reinforces a person or thing.
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إِيَادٌ
A supporting side or flank; an adjacent area; or a wing of an army.
The spatial senses include either side of something, its vicinity, and the wing or flank of an army.
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إِيَادٌ
A reinforcing embankment or defensive structure, including an earthwork around a watering place or tent, a fortification, or a fortified and difficult-to-access mountain.
The structure strengthens or protects what it surrounds or occupies.
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إِيَادٌ
An elevated tract or heap of sand.
A specialized nominal usage.
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إِيَادٌ
An abundance of camels.
Explained by the notion that camels strengthen their owner.
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إِيَادٌ
Air.
A separately attested nominal usage.
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مُؤْيِدٌ
A great, mighty, or severe thing; a calamity; or anything rendered strong, hard, or severe.
A nominal or adjectival usage describing either the severity of a thing or a state made hard or severe.
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مُؤَيَّدٌ
Strengthened or aided; hence victorious; also structurally strong when applied to a building.
A passive-result adjective or participle, with the building sense referring to physical soundness.
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مُؤَيِّدٌ
Strengthening, aiding, or rendering victorious.
An active participial usage describing one who or something that strengthens or aids.
- Lane · entry 7596
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
A reported variant reading of 5:110 is not treated as a separate public form because the canonical QAC form is أَيَّدَ.
The expression وَلا يَؤُدُهُ حِفْظُهُمَا is discussed as belonging to the separate root أود, meaning to burden or weigh down, and is not assigned to أيد.