Quranic root
عدد
ʿ · d · d
The root centers on counting and enumeration, and on preparing or providing something for a future need.
Its lexical branches extend from counting to number, collective quantity, being counted among a group, and bounded or recurring periods; the second principal branch concerns preparation, equipment, and readiness. Related extensions include perennial water and recurrent pain or events associated with a determinate interval.
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- Quran-attested forms
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
عَدَّ
ʿadda
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 7 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 count, number, reckon, or enumerate.
Used transitively for counting objects, people, periods, or other units; grammatical person, aspect, and voice do not create separate lexical senses.
- Lane · entry 2355
- Mufradāt · row 952
Selected Quran examples
عَدَّدَ
ʿaddada
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
- II
- 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 count or enumerate repeatedly.
A reported interpretation of the Quranic construction in 104:2 emphasizes repeated reckoning or enumeration.
- Lane · entry 2356
Selected Quran examples
Quran 104:2word 4
“and counts it”
To make numerous or increase in number.
A reported interpretation of the Quranic construction in 104:2 takes the causative form as expressing multiplication or abundance.
- Lane · entry 2356
Selected Quran examples
Quran 104:2word 4
“and counts it”
To make something a provision or reserve against misfortune.
A reported interpretation of the Quranic construction in 104:2 understands the object as wealth or property made into provision for future contingencies.
- Lane · entry 2356
Selected Quran examples
Quran 104:2word 4
“and counts it”
أَعَدَّ
ʾaʿadda
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 20 occurrences
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To prepare, make ready, or provide something for an affair.
Includes active and passive Quranic uses: something may be made ready or be prepared for a specified purpose.
- Lane · entry 2358
- Mufradāt · row 952
Selected Quran examples
اِعْتَدَّ
āiʿtadda
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
- VIII
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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To count or reckon a prescribed period.
In the Quranic construction, the object is the waiting period whose days are to be counted or reckoned.
- Lane · entry 2355
- Mufradāt · row 952
Selected Quran examples
Quran 33:49word 18
“(to) count concerning them”
عَادّ
ʿādd
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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One who counts or reckons; a keeper of number or calculation.
The Quranic plural form denotes those engaged in counting or reckoning.
- Lane · entry 2355
- Mufradāt · row 952
Selected Quran examples
Quran 23:113word 8
“those who keep count”
عَدَد
ʿadad
- Part of speech
- Noun / Adjective
- Quran occurrences
- 6 occurrences
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A number, count, or quantity composed of units; counted or specified in number.
It may refer to the number of people, years, months, or other units, and may qualify a period as numbered or countable.
- Lane · entry 2371
- Mufradāt · row 952
Selected Quran examples
عَدّ
ʿadd
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
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Counting, enumeration, or reckoning.
A verbal noun of counting, used in Quranic expressions concerning the numbering or reckoning of people or things.
- Lane · entry 2355
- Mufradāt · row 952
Selected Quran examples
Quran 19:84word 7
“a number”
Quran 19:94word 4
“a counting”
عِدَّة
ʿiddah
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 11 occurrences
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A number, prescribed count, or quantity of days, months, or other units.
In Quranic legal and calendrical contexts, it denotes the number or completion of days, months, or other counted units.
- Lane · entry 2370
- Mufradāt · row 952
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:184word 10
“then a prescribed number”
Quran 74:31word 9
“their number”
A prescribed waiting period before remarriage after divorce or the death of a husband.
The Quranic use concerns the period whose completion permits remarriage; its duration varies according to the relevant legal circumstance.
- Lane · entry 2370
- Mufradāt · row 952
Selected Quran examples
Quran 33:49word 17
“waiting period”
عُدَّة
ʿuddah
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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Preparation, prepared equipment, or provision for an affair.
The Quranic use denotes the preparation or resources a person should have made ready.
- Lane · entry 2369
- Mufradāt · row 952
Selected Quran examples
Quran 9:46word 6
“(some) preparation”
مَعْدُود
maʿdūd
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- Quran occurrences
- 7 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.
Counted, numbered, or specified in number.
Applies to a determinate number or period, including Quranic references to numbered days or a limited term.
- Lane · entry 2381
- Mufradāt · row 952
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:184word 2
“numbered”
Limited or few in number.
The feminine plural and related forms can particularly convey fewness or a small, bounded quantity, though the participle itself may apply to numbers large or small.
- Lane · entry 2381
- Mufradāt · row 952
Selected Quran examples
Quran 11:104word 5
“limited”
Quran 12:20word 5
“few”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:24أُعِدَّتْprepared
- 2:80مَّعْدُودَةًۭ ۚnumbered
- 2:184مَّعْدُودَٰتٍۢ ۚnumbered
- 2:184فَعِدَّةٌۭthen a prescribed number
- 2:185فَعِدَّةٌۭthen prescribed number (should be made up)
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 42 Classical meanings
عَدَّهُ
To reckon, regard, or esteem someone or something as good, bad, or otherwise characterized.
A transitive evaluative use, distinct from merely enumerating units.
- Lane · entry 2355
عَادَّ
To enumerate or recount one's qualities or achievements to one another, especially in mutual rivalry or boasting.
A reciprocal Form III construction.
- Lane · entry 2357
عَادَّ
To share equally or divide something jointly with another.
Used of sharing an inheritance or another thing between parties.
- Lane · entry 2357
عَادَّ
Of pain, illness, insanity, or the effect of a venomous bite: to recur or return at intervals.
A reciprocal or recurrent Form III use describing periodic return.
- Lane · entry 2357
تَعَدَّدَ
To become numerous or exceed another number.
The Form V verb may describe increase in number.
- Lane · entry 2359
تَعَدَّدَ
To participate with others in qualities or advantages that can be shared.
A reported Form V use in a reciprocal or collective context.
- Lane · entry 2359
تَعَادَّ
To share or participate mutually in something.
A Form VI reciprocal construction.
- Lane · entry 2360
اِعْتَدَّ
To become numbered, counted, or reckoned.
A Form VIII quasi-passive use; its acceptability is discussed in the lexical tradition.
- Lane · entry 2362
اِعْتَدَّ بِهِ
To include something in a numbering or reckoning, and hence to take it into account or regard it as significant.
The prepositional construction بِهِ marks the thing counted or considered consequential.
- Lane · entry 2362
اِعْتَدَّتْ
Of a woman: to observe or keep the prescribed waiting period.
A specialized Form VIII construction connected with عِدَّة.
- Lane · entry 2362
اِسْتَعَدَّ
To make oneself ready or become prepared for an affair.
The Form X verb includes equipping oneself with the necessary apparatus or means.
- Lane · entry 2363
عَدْعَدَ
To hasten or move quickly in walking or going.
A special quadriliteral formation recorded in Classical Arabic.
- Lane · entry 2364
عَدْعَدَ
Of a sandgrouse: to utter its characteristic cry.
A specialized and tentatively reported use; the related noun denotes the cry.
- Lane · entry 2364
- Lane · entry 2377
عَدْ عَدْ
A cry used to chide a mule.
An imperative-like animal-driving expression.
- Lane · entry 2366
عُدّ
Pustules appearing on the face, especially on a person of good appearance.
A specialized plural noun with a dermatological sense.
- Lane · entry 2367
عِدّ
Multitude, abundance, or great quantity.
Used of something present in considerable number or amount.
- Lane · entry 2368
عِدّ
A perennial or abundant source of water, such as spring or well water that does not run out.
Dialectal descriptions vary concerning whether the term implies much or little water; the common branch concerns enduring or well water rather than rainwater.
- Lane · entry 2368
حَسَبٌ عِدّ
Old, established nobility or lineage.
An idiomatic expression applying the water sense of enduring antiquity to social standing.
- Lane · entry 2368
عِدَّة
A person's term of life or a recurring interval of time.
Classical uses include the ending of a man's lifetime and the interval at which someone habitually visits; these are broader than the Quranic legal waiting-period sense.
- Lane · entry 2370
عَدَد
The years of a person's life, considered as a counted span.
A specialized use referring to the portion of life already numbered or remaining.
- Lane · entry 2371
عِدَاد
A day or occasion of giving.
In the expression يَوْمُ العِدَادِ, the noun can denote a customary day of gifts or payment.
- Lane · entry 2373
عِدَاد
The day of the final presentation or judgment.
A conventional expression equating يوم العِداد with the day of final reckoning.
- Lane · entry 2373
عِدَاد
A customary Friday or festival day on which one visits someone.
A conventional temporal expression referring to a recurring communal occasion.
- Lane · entry 2373
عِدَاد
A periodic interval, especially the interval at which the moon returns to a specified celestial station.
The expression concerning the Pleiades describes meeting or occurring once at a recurring lunar interval; traditional explanations differ on the exact period.
- Lane · entry 2373
عِدَاد
A recurring paroxysm of pain or fever at a determinate interval.
Used of the recurrent pain of a venomous bite and of intermittent or periodic illness.
- Lane · entry 2373
عِدَاد
The appointed time of death.
A specialized temporal use of عِدَاد.
- Lane · entry 2373
عِدَاد
A day or night when a deceased person's family gathers to mourn.
A conventional funerary use.
- Lane · entry 2373
عِدَاد
A recurring touch or affection resembling insanity or diabolical possession.
The term may describe an episodic condition that returns at intervals.
- Lane · entry 2373
عِدَاد
The twanging or periodic pulsation of a bow.
A specialized use connected with repeated or intermittent sound.
- Lane · entry 2373
عَدِيد
A person counted or registered as belonging to a tribe or group, despite lacking kinship there.
Used of enrollment among a people, including registration in a military or pensioners' register.
- Lane · entry 2374
عَدِيد
An equal or counterpart in number or quantity.
The comparison may concern equal multitude, quantity, or worth in number.
- Lane · entry 2374
عَدِيدَة
A lot, portion, or share of property or inheritance.
Often used of property divided among sharers.
- Lane · entry 2375
عِدَّان
The time or period of an event or person's life.
Used in expressions meaning at the time of a person's action, life, or reign.
- Lane · entry 2376
عِدَّان
The first, best, or chief part of something.
A specialized temporal-metaphorical use, especially of the prime of youth or sovereignty.
- Lane · entry 2376
تَمَعْدَدَ
To adopt the dress, language, manners, or rough way of life associated with the sons of Maʿadd; of a boy, to reach robust manhood.
The formation covers imitation of a traditional Arab mode of life and, in one use, becoming physically mature or coarse.
- Lane · entry 2365
تَمَعْدَدَ
To withdraw or go far away into the country.
A distinct poetic use reported for the same special formation.
- Lane · entry 2365
أَعَدّ
Fully prepared or completely equipped.
Used adjectivally of an army in the most complete state of readiness.
- Lane · entry 2378
مَعَدّ
The side of a man, horse, or similar body; specifically, the parts beneath the two boards of a saddle.
A specialized anatomical and saddlery term.
- Lane · entry 2379
المَعَدِّيَّة
The coarse and rude mode of dress associated with the sons of Maʿadd.
A cultural adjective derived from the Maʿadd branch.
- Lane · entry 2380
المُعَيْدِيّ
A person of good reputation whose outward appearance is unimpressive or contemptible.
Occurs in the proverb that hearing of the person is better than seeing him; the form is a diminutive derivative associated with Maʿadd.
- Lane · entry 2382
مُعْتَدٌّ بِهِ
Something included in a reckoning and therefore taken into account or regarded as important.
A passive participial expression with بِهِ.
- Lane · entry 2383
مُسْتَعِدَّات
The legs of a she-camel.
A specialized poetic usage of the plural form.
- Lane · entry 2384
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Form II entry records several reported interpretations of the Quranic occurrence in 104:2; they are preserved as distinct senses rather than treated as interchangeable English glosses.
The active participle Quran group is normalized from the plural form عَآدِّين to the citation headword عَادّ, and the feminine passive-participle group is merged under مَعْدُود.
A Mufradat discussion of أَعْتَدَ and أَعْتَدَتْ as possibly related to this root is disputed and has no corresponding QAC form group here; it is not assigned as a Quranic form of عدد.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The possible inclusion of أَعْتَدَ/أَعْتَدَتْ under this root is explicitly disputed in the supplied lexical discussion, while the QAC packet supplies no form group for it.