Quranic root
عدس
ʿ · d · s
The supplied root-level evidence identifies عَدَس primarily as the known lentil grain and records عَدَسْ as a cry used to urge a mule. It does not establish a single broader root principle.
Classical evidence preserves several distinct lexical branches, including lentils, a mule-driving cry, movement and journeying, service and pasturing, medical terms, and related derived expressions; a unified semantic development is not demonstrated.
- Maqāyīs · row 3154
- Mufradāt · row 954
- Lane · entry 2385
- Lane · entry 2387
- Lane · entry 2388
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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.
عَدَسٌ
ʿadasun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
Lentils, the known edible grain.
In the Quran, it occurs in the coordinated expression وَعَدَسِهَا, “and its lentils.”
- Lane · entry 2388
- Mufradāt · row 954
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:61word 21
“[and] its lentils”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:61وَعَدَسِهَا[and] its lentils
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 18 Classical meanings
عَدَسَ
To go away or journey into, in, or through a country or land.
Also used in the expression عَدَسَتْ بِهِ المَنِيَّةُ, “death carried him away.”
- Lane · entry 2385
- Mufradāt · row 954
عَدَسَ
To tread hard or vehemently upon the ground.
- Lane · entry 2385
عَدَسَ
To work, toil, or labor hard.
Reported as equivalent to كَدَحَ.
- Lane · entry 2385
عَدَسَ
To be strong to do evil or mischief.
A reported interpretation, attributed to one authority; the same passage records journeying as a competing interpretation.
- Lane · entry 2385
عَدَسَ
To serve another.
- Lane · entry 2385
عَدَسَ
To pasture cattle, camels, or other livestock; to pasture for someone.
Used with livestock as the object, and in the construction يَعْدِسُ عَلَيْهِ, “he pastures for him.”
- Lane · entry 2385
عَدَسْ
The cry عَدَسْ used to chide and urge a mule; hence, to utter this cry to a mule.
The cry may be used substantively in the construction عَدَسَ بِهِ or عَدَسَهُ, “he said عَدَسْ to it.”
- Lane · entry 2385
- Lane · entry 2387
- Mufradāt · row 954
عُدِسَ
To be afflicted with an eruption of a small pustule called عَدَسَةٌ.
Passive verbal usage.
- Lane · entry 2385
عَادَسَ
To journey continually.
The supplied lexical identification is a Form III derived verb.
- Lane · entry 2386
عَدَسْ
A name for a mule.
A transferred use deriving from the cry used to urge a mule.
- Lane · entry 2387
عَدَسُ الْمَاءِ
A particular plant.
The supplied evidence gives no further description of the plant.
- Lane · entry 2388
عَدَسَةٌ
A small lentil-like pustule; an eruption occurring in the body and regarded as a kind of plague, sometimes fatal.
The pustules are described as appearing dispersedly and as being feared because of their severity.
- Lane · entry 2389
- Mufradāt · row 954
عَدَسِيَّةٌ
A soup made by boiling yellow lentils until nearly dissolved.
The reported preparation adds red vinegar, coriander, and salt.
- Lane · entry 2390
عَدَسِيَّةٌ
Bats’ dung.
Reportedly used medicinally, internally or externally, including mixed with vinegar for application to tumours.
- Lane · entry 2390
عَدَسِيَّةٌ
A name for a bat.
A reported usage associated with the term for bats’ dung.
- Lane · entry 2390
عَدُوسٌ
Bold or daring.
Used as an epithet.
- Lane · entry 2391
عَدُوسٌ
Strong or enduring in journeying, especially by night.
Used of a person or camel, and as a feminine epithet for a hyena.
- Lane · entry 2391
- Mufradāt · row 954
مَعْدُوسٌ
Having an eruption of the pustule called عَدَسَةٌ.
A passive participial adjective.
- Lane · entry 2393
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied root-level discussion explicitly denies a general lexical principle for this root, so the entry preserves its distinct lexical branches rather than presenting an artificial unified derivation.
The interpretation of عَدَسَ in one Lane passage as “to be strong to do evil” is reported as doubtful and is retained separately from the better-attested journeying meaning.