Quranic root
عند
ʿ · n · d
The root's central orientation is deviation from a straight course or proper limit, with related notions of separation, opposition, and moving apart.
Classical usage develops from turning aside and being apart to opposition and transgression. The adverbial عند expresses nearness, presence, or attachment; this is presented as a related development rather than as the direct meaning of every derived form.
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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.
عَنِيد
ʿanīd
- Part of speech
- Adjective / noun
- Quran occurrences
- 4 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.
Obstinately opposed to or rejecting what is true or right; rebellious and transgressive.
Used of one who knowingly refuses the truth or deviates from obedience. The Quranic term also carries the nuance of self-regard in what one possesses, which helps explain its stubborn opposition.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 50:24word 6
“stubborn”
Quran 74:16word 5
“stubborn”
عِند
ʿind
- Part of speech
- Adverbial noun / preposition
- Quran occurrences
- 197 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.
At, near, by, or in the presence of; in the company, vicinity, or relational nearness of someone or something.
An adverbial noun used for spatial presence or nearness, and also for temporal proximity or the occasion of an event. In contexts of rank or favor, it can express standing near or in the presence of another.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 10:2word 19
“near”
Quran 49:3word 5
“(in) presence”
With someone as possession, custody, availability, authority, or something held at that person's disposal; hence, to have or possess.
Often occurs with a pronominal suffix or a following genitive. The possessor need not be physically present with the thing possessed; the construction may express control, availability, or an attributed possession.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 28:78word 6
“I have”
From the presence, side, possession, or source of someone or something.
Especially occurs in the construction مِنْ عِنْدِ, which marks origin or attribution from a person, source, or divine side.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 8:32word 10
“from You”
In the judgment, estimation, reckoning, or authoritative assessment of someone; according to that person's determination.
Used with opinions, evaluations, and what is regarded as true or significant; عند الله may therefore refer to divine assessment or determination rather than physical location.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 24:15word 14
“(was) near Allah”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 201 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 40 Classical meanings
عَنَدَ
To decline or deviate from a road, right course, proper direction, or thing; to go aside or withdraw from it, including leaving one's companions and taking another route.
Used of a person or traveler and of departure from companions or a course.
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عَنَدَ
Of a she-camel: to pasture alone, refusing to graze with the other camels and seeking the best herbage.
A specialized animal use describing separation from the herd.
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عَنَدَ
To oppose and reject what is true, just, or right while knowing it to be so.
This verbal construction describes knowing refusal and obstinate opposition, not mere lack of knowledge.
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عَنَدَ
To overstep the proper boundary or limit; to act exorbitantly or immoderately, especially in disobedience or rebellion.
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عَنَدَ
Of a vein or blood: to flow continuously or copiously, sometimes running off to one side.
A figurative or specialized bodily use associated with exceeding its proper course.
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عَنَدَتِ الطَّعْنَةُ
Of a spear-wound or stab: to pour blood to a distance.
A fixed bodily construction describing the result of a penetrating wound.
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عَانَدَ
To oppose, disagree with, disobey, or act contrary to another; to contend or argue vehemently or obstinately.
The construction may describe contention in an altercation, including disputing without knowledge of the truth or falsity of one's own or an opponent's claim.
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عَانَدَ
To separate oneself from someone or retire to a distant or separate place.
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عَانَدَ
To imitate another, do likewise, or conform to the other's movement.
This is one of the reported contrary senses of the verb and is distinct from opposition.
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عَانَدَ
To keep or cleave to someone or something.
A reported sense opposite to separation.
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أَعْنَدَ
To vomit in successive discharges and copiously.
Used in the construction أَعْنَدَ فِي قَيْئِهِ and with the vomit as object.
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أَعْنَدَ
To go away or depart, said of a man or of blood.
A rare usage attributed to an early poetic or lexicographical authority.
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تَعَانَدَا
They opposed each other or contended in an altercation, vehemently or obstinately.
A reciprocal construction.
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اِسْتَعْنَدَ رَأْيَهُ
To be or become alone in one's opinion, with no one sharing it.
A specialized Form X construction concerning an isolated judgment or view.
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اِسْتَعْنَدَنِي
To direct one's course toward or seek a particular person, singling that person out from a group.
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اِسْتَعْنَدَ
Of a camel or horse: to master the nose-rein, halter, or leading-rope and resist being led; to drag the person holding it.
Used of an animal overcoming the control exerted through its rein.
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اِسْتَعْنَدَ
Of vomit or blood: to overcome a person or come forth from the body copiously.
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اِسْتَعْنَدَ عَصَاهُ
To strike or smite with one's staff among a group of people.
A fixed construction with the staff as instrument and people as the setting.
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اِسْتَعْنَدَ ذَكَرَهُ
To commit fornication among or with people.
An idiomatic sexual construction.
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اِسْتَعْنَدَ السِّقَاءَ
To fold or incline the mouth of a waterskin or milk-skin and drink from it.
A specialized use concerning the handling of a skin container.
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عِنْدَكَ
Take or attend to it; an expression of incitement.
Used with an object such as زَيْدًا and not as the ordinary locative عند.
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عِنْدَكَ
Take care; keep where you are or beware of the thing before you.
A cautionary use in which the expression functions as an intransitive verbal noun.
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عَنَدٌ
The side of a thing; its flank or lateral direction.
Contrasted with the middle or center.
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عَنَدٌ
In a disputed poetic usage, presenting oneself before another or imitating another's action.
The interpretation is reported as an alternative explanation of a verse involving a bird teaching its young to fly.
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طَعْنٌ عَنِدٌ
Thrusting with a spear or similar weapon to the right and left.
A specialized description of the direction of a thrust.
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عُنْدَدٌ
A way of avoiding or escaping something; an artifice or means of attaining or evading an end.
Often occurs in expressions meaning that there is no way to avoid or attain something.
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عُنْدَدٌ
Old or ancient.
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عِنْدِيَّةٌ
An assertion based merely on one's own opinion.
Derived from the phrase عِنْدِي, “in my opinion,” and used for an individually asserted view.
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عَنُودٌ
One who declines or deviates from the right way or course.
The lexical discussion distinguishes this physical or directional deviation from the opposition associated with عَنِيد.
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عَنُودٌ
A she-camel or other beast that leaves the road or remains apart from the herd; one that keeps to the side, moves opposite the others, or precedes them.
Applied especially to a camel characterized by strength, liveliness, or separation from the other animals.
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عَنُودٌ
A man who settles in a place by himself and does not mix with other people.
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قِدْحٌ عَنُودٌ
An arrow in the game of maysir that emerges in a direction or manner different from the other arrows.
A specialized description of an arrow's divergent course.
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عَنُودُ الْمِرْفَقِ
An animal whose elbow is far from its breast.
An anatomical animal description.
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عَقَبَةٌ عَنُودٌ
A mountain road difficult to ascend.
A figurative description of a difficult ascent.
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سَحَابَةٌ عَنُودٌ
A cloud abundant in rain, or one that hardly moves from its place.
A specialized meteorological and figurative use.
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عَانِدٌ
A camel that deviates from the road or right course.
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عَانِدٌ
Blood flowing to one side, or a vein that continues to flow and scarcely stops or flows copiously.
A bodily and figurative use associated with exceeding the proper course or limit.
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طَعْنَةٌ عَانِدَةٌ
A spear-wound or stab that pours blood to a distance.
A specialized wound description.
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عَانِدَةُ الطَّرِيقِ
A course or route that deviates from the right road.
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مُعْلَنْدَدٌ
A country or tract of land containing neither water nor pasture.
A rare geographical adjective.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The QAC nominal and LOC groups for عِند are merged under one public adverbial-noun citation form, while retaining their combined occurrence count.
The classical record reports contrary extensions of عَانَدَ, including opposition, imitation, separation, and clinging; these are retained as distinct constructions rather than treated as one uniform sense.
The Quranic examples for 24:15 use a valid QAC location discussed in the Quran-focused evidence, but no contextual English gloss for that exact occurrence was supplied.