Quranic root
عرض
ʿ · r · ḍ
The root centers on عرض, the dimension opposed to length: breadth, lateral presentation, or the showing of a side.
From the notion of breadth or a side develop meanings of appearing, presenting or exposing something, turning aside, intervening across a path, and comparison or opposition. Many derived usages extend this lateral or oppositional orientation figuratively.
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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.
عَرَضَ
ʿaraḍa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 11 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 display, present, or expose something to view; to offer it before someone
Used transitively for bringing a person, thing, or matter before an observer or recipient. The Quranic uses include displaying beings, presenting an offering or trust, and exposing people or things for judgment or observation; voice and tense vary by occurrence.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:31word 6
“He displayed them”
Quran 33:72word 2
“[We] offered”
Quran 18:100word 1
“And We (will) present”
عَرَّضَ
ʿarraḍa
- 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 hint at, allude to, or express something indirectly
The Quranic construction refers to indirect language whose intended proposal is understood without being stated plainly, specifically an indirect marriage proposal during the waiting period.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:235word 5
“you hint”
أَعْرَضَ
ʾaʿraḍa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 32 occurrences
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to turn away from, avoid, shun, or disregard
Usually construed with عَنْ, but the complement may be omitted when the object of aversion is understood. The Quranic use covers physical or deliberate withdrawal from people, signs, revelation, admonition, or an affair.
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Selected Quran examples
إِعْرَاض
ʾiʿrāḍ
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
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turning away, desertion, or aversion
The verbal noun of أَعْرَضَ; it denotes withdrawal or refusal of attention, including desertion in a personal relationship and aversion to signs or guidance.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:128word 8
“desertion”
Quran 6:35word 5
“their aversion”
عَارِض
ʿāriḍ
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
a cloud bank appearing across the horizon
In the Quranic occurrence, the active participle is a noun for a visible mass of cloud presenting itself across the sky; the expected rain is inferred from the context, not from the word alone.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 46:24word 3
“(as) a cloud”
Quran 46:24word 8
“(is) a cloud”
عَرَض
ʿaraḍ
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 6 occurrences
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a worldly possession, gain, or commodity, especially a transient worldly good
The Quranic uses contrast such gains with lasting spiritual or otherworldly good. In one context the word denotes booty or spoil; the common semantic feature is an attainable worldly acquisition lacking permanence.
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Selected Quran examples
عَرِيض
ʿarīḍ
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- 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.
broad, ample, extensive; figuratively abundant or lengthy
In the Quranic expression دُعَاءٌ عَرِيضٌ, the adjective describes prayer as extensive or abundant rather than specifying a physical width.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 41:51word 13
“lengthy”
عَرْض
ʿarḍ
- Part of speech
- 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.
breadth or width, the dimension opposed to length
The Quranic use describes the immense breadth or extent of Paradise. The expression may be understood spatially or, in contextual interpretation, as indicating vastness; it is distinct from عَرَض meaning worldly goods.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:133word 7
“its width”
Quran 57:21word 7
“its width”
displaying or exposing; presentation
In the Quranic accusative expression عَرْضًا, the noun functions as the verbal noun of presenting or exposing something, rather than as the dimension ‘width’.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:100word 5
“(on) display”
عُرْضَة
ʿurḍah
- 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.
an obstacle or butt placed in the way of something
In the Quranic construction جَعْلُ اللهِ عُرْضَةً لِلْأَيْمَانِ, the word can evoke either an obstacle interposed between a person and a good act or a target made the object of repeated oaths.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:224word 4
“an excuse”
مُعْرِض
muʿriḍ
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 19 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.
one who turns away, is averse, or refuses attention
A substantivized active participle of أَعْرَضَ. The Quranic plural forms refer to people characterized by persistent withdrawal from signs, guidance, truth, or admonition; grammatical number and gender are inflectional only.
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Selected Quran examples
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:31عَرَضَهُمْHe displayed them
- 2:83مُّعْرِضُونَrefusing
- 2:224عُرْضَةًۭan excuse
- 2:235عَرَّضْتُمyou hint
- 3:23مُّعْرِضُونَthose who are averse
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 179 Classical meanings
عَرُضَ
to become broad or wide; to spread in breadth
An intransitive Form I usage, distinct from the transitive Quranic form عَرَضَ ‘to present’.
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عَرَضَ
to appear, become apparent, or present itself to someone
Usually construed with لِ; the thing is said to show its side to the observer and thereby become visible or accessible.
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عَرَضَ لَهُ
to happen to, befall, or occur to someone
Used of an event, disease, disturbance, doubt, or similar incident.
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عَرَضَ لَهُ
to intervene as an obstacle and prevent someone from reaching a goal or continuing along a way
The obstacle may be a thing, an event, a mountain, or another intervening circumstance.
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عَرَضَ لَهُ
to go toward, approach, or pass by someone
The expression may also mean to present oneself to or proceed toward the person addressed.
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عَرَضَ الفَرَسُ
of a horse: to run or move obliquely, inclining toward one side
A conventional description of a horse’s gait.
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عَرَضَ البَعِيرُ
of a camel: to eat from the upper parts of trees or shrubs
A specialized pastoral usage.
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عَرَضَتِ الشَّاةُ
of an animal: to be overtaken by disease, injury, or death
The usage includes an animal dying from disease or, in another expression, dying without disease.
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عَرَضَ بِسِلْعَتِهِ
to barter or exchange a commodity for another
The construction is equivalent to offering one commodity in exchange for another.
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عَرَضَ
to come to the region called al-ʿArūḍ
A geographic usage referring to the area around Mecca, Medina, and, in some accounts, Yemen.
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عَرَضَ عِرْضَهُ
to revile, defame, or speak ill of someone
The expression concerns attacking a person’s reputation or honor.
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عَرَضَ الشَّيْءَ
to strike the side of a thing
A specialized transitive usage distinguished from placing something sideways.
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عَرَضَ
to place or turn something breadthwise, crosswise, or sideways
Used of a stick, spear, bow, sword, or similar object placed across rather than lengthwise.
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عَرَضَهُ
to feed someone or offer food to him
The passive form may mean that people were given food.
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عَرَضَ الحَوْضَ
to fill a watering-trough or waterskin
A specialized transitive pastoral usage.
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عَرَضَ بَعِيرَهُ
to brand a camel with the mark called عِرَاض
The corresponding passive expression describes a camel bearing that brand.
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عَرَضَهُ
to defraud or deceive someone in a sale
A commercial usage concerning deceptive dealing.
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عُرِضَ
to become mad, insane, or affected by a jinn
A passive or quasi-passive expression for being overtaken by madness or a supernatural affliction.
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عَرَّضَ
to make something broad or wide
This is the literal Form II widening usage, distinct from its Quranic indirect-speech construction.
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عَرَّضَ
to speak obliquely, ambiguously, or allusively
The expression may convey an intended meaning without stating it plainly, including an indirect marriage proposal or an equivocal phrase used to avoid a direct falsehood.
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عَرَّضَ
to write indistinctly or with poorly formed, undifferentiated letters
A specialized usage concerning handwriting.
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عَرَّضَ
to expose someone or something to a circumstance or danger
The object is made liable or exposed to the following thing; the construction may describe causing someone to expose himself.
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عَرَّضَ
to give one thing in exchange for, or in place of, another; to barter
Includes exchanging or selling one commodity for a like commodity.
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عَرَّضَ
to give a present or provide food, especially provisions carried on a journey
The noun عُرَاضَة refers to a present or food supplied by a traveler or purveyor.
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عَرَّضَ الماشيةَ
to put cattle in pasturage sufficient to replace fodder
A pastoral usage concerning the kind of grazing supplied.
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عَرَّضَ
to acquire courage, energy, strength, and power of speech
The meaning is associated with becoming possessed of عارضة, including eloquence or forcefulness in speaking.
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عَرَّضَ
to persist in eating ʿirḍān, young goats
A rare lexical usage tied to the plural of عَرِيض.
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عَارَضَ
to oppose, contend with, or be opposed by someone
The relation may be opposition in disagreement or, in another construction, agreement or correspondence.
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عَارَضَ
to vie with, rival, imitate, or requite someone by doing likewise
The comparison is between the breadth or character of one action and that of another.
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عَارَضَ
to barter or exchange commodities
Used in commercial exchange and, in blood matters, for accepting compensation instead of retaliation.
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عَارَضَ
to compete in or practice deceptive dealing in a sale
A specialized commercial usage.
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عَارَضَ
to proceed opposite or alongside someone, each taking a corresponding side
Used of travel, paths, and things lying over against one another.
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عَارَضَ
to take a side route or enter a course obliquely
Includes approaching a bier from an intermediate point and other lateral movement.
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عَارَضَ المَرْأَةَ
to have sexual intercourse with a woman unlawfully or without marriage
A restricted Classical Arabic construction; it can also describe a child of unknown or illicit paternity.
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عَارَضَ الشَّيْءَ بِالشَّيْءِ
to compare or collate one thing, especially a book, with another
The related noun may denote reading or studying together with another person.
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عَارَضَ
of a stallion: to cover a she-camel when offered to her from the side
The camel may conceive by a stallion not belonging to her usual herd.
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تَعَرَّضَ
to present, offer, or expose oneself or one’s side to someone
A Form V reflexive development of showing one’s side; it may also mean intruding or interfering in an affair.
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تَعَرَّضَ لَهُ
to oppose, attack, or set oneself against someone
Used of a person, beast of prey, reptile, or other potential attacker.
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تَعَرَّضَ لِـ
to address, direct, or apply oneself to an object or pursuit
Includes presenting oneself to seek favor, bounty, a request, testimony, or a good action.
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تَعَرَّضَ لِلرِّفَاقِ
to ask traveling companies for provisions or presents
The object is the travel gift or food called عُرَاضَة.
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تَعَرَّضَ لِكَذَا
to expose oneself or become liable to something
The construction expresses voluntary or resulting exposure to an event or condition.
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تَعَرَّضَ
to turn aside or move obliquely rather than in a straight course
Used of camels, horses, and other movement that alternates toward the right and left.
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تَعَرَّضَ
to become infected, corrupted, or altered so as to cease
Applied especially to love or attachment that changes or comes to an end.
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تَعَارَضَا
to oppose, fight, compete, or imitate one another
The reciprocal Form VI expresses mutual opposition or reciprocal rivalry.
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اِعْتَرَضَ
to lie or extend across a path and obstruct passage
Used of a physical object, cloud, building, mountain, or other thing that becomes an intervening obstacle.
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اِعْتَرَضَ عَلَيْهِ
to oppose, resist, or withstand someone or something
The construction may express refusal or resistance.
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اِعْتَرَضَ فِي الأَمْرِ
to interpose oneself in an affair or enter into it
Includes coming in upon someone or undertaking an affair.
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اِعْتَرَضَ عَلَيْهِ
to interpose an objection or attribute an error to someone’s statement or action
A technical argumentative usage.
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اِعْتَرَضَ الجُنْدَ
to review an army while making its members pass before the reviewer
The reviewer examines the troops to determine their condition or who is present and absent.
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اِعْتَرَضَ
of a horse or camel: to be refractory, untoward, or difficult to manage
The usage may describe an animal resisting its leader or rider.
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اِعْتَرَضَ الشَّيْءَ
to undertake or constrain oneself to do a difficult or troublesome thing
A figurative extension from taking an oblique or obstructive course.
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اِعْتَرَضَ الشَّوْكَ
of a camel or similar animal: to eat thorny plants
A specialized pastoral usage for feeding on thorns when ordinary herbage is unavailable.
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اِعْتَرَضَ مِنْهُ
to accept an equivalent, substitute, or compensation
Used of accepting a substitute for a debt or blood compensation instead of retaliation.
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اِسْتَعْرَضَ
to ask someone to show or display what he has
Includes asking to see a girl or commodity in a sale.
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اِسْتَعْرَضَهَا
to approach someone or something from the side
A literal sideward approach.
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اِسْتَعْرَضَ
to act at random or indiscriminately without distinguishing among those encountered
The usage may describe indiscriminate killing, giving, questioning, buying, or taking.
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اِسْتَعْرَضَتِ النَّاقَةُ
of a she-camel: to become fat and plump
A rare intransitive usage.
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عَرْض
breadth, width, or the mutual distance between the sides of a thing
Primarily used of corporeal things; by extension it may describe extent or vastness.
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عَرْض
latitude in geography
A technical geographic usage.
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عَرْض
the middle or midst of a thing
The expression may refer to the middle of a thing, including a wall, river, property, or other expanse.
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عَرْض
a mountain, its base, side, or place of ascent
Several closely related geographic applications are attested under this headword.
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عَرْض
a collection of clouds obstructing the horizon
A cloud formation named for its breadth across the horizon.
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عَرْض
an army or great army
A figurative designation likening a large army to a mountain or horizon-filling cloud.
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عَرْض
a multitude of locusts or bees filling the horizon
A figurative collective usage based on a broad cloud-like mass.
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عَرْض
a valley
A geographic usage distinct from the dimension ‘width’.
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عَرْض
something plainly before the eye or seen at a glance
Occurs in expressions such as عَرْضَ عَيْنٍ, ‘before the eye’ or ‘at a glance’.
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عَرْض
a compensation, substitute, or thing given in place of another
A commercial or legal interpretation of the word; it is distinct from عرض meaning ordinary goods.
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عَرْض
commodities or goods exchanged for money or other commodities
In commercial terminology this may exclude coined silver and gold money and can denote non-cash merchandise.
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عُرْض
a side, lateral part, quarter, or outward portion
Used of a sword, neck, face, house, road, people, or other entity approached from a side.
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عُرْض
the middle or surrounding portion of a river, sea, story, or group of people
In expressions such as فِي عُرْضِ النَّاسِ it may mean among or in the middle portions of the people.
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عُرْض
any part or object taken or struck indiscriminately
Used in expressions directing someone to take, strike, or eat whatever is encountered without investigating its source.
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عِرْض
the side or low region of a valley or country, and a district or province
Includes named lowland districts between the Hijaz and Yemen.
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عِرْض
a valley containing towns, water, palms, or trees
The plural may denote the corresponding districts or lowlands.
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عِرْض
the trees called أراك, أثل, and حمض
A specialized botanical usage.
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عِرْض
a person’s self, body, skin, or a bodily part
The word can denote the person himself, the body, the skin, or a place such as the armpit or groin that sweats.
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عِرْض
the odor of the body or of another thing, whether pleasant or foul
Used with adjectives meaning sweet-smelling or stinking.
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عِرْض
honor, reputation, ancestry, or grounds of social esteem
Includes what a person preserves from blame and the praise or reproach attached to him, his ancestors, or those under his care.
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عِرْض
a commended natural disposition or a good action
A figurative extension of the person’s commendable character or standing.
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عَرَض
an event, accident, misfortune, or thing that befalls someone
Includes disease, distraction, theft, death, or another occurrence that may impede or test a person.
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عَرَض
an accidental or unexpected occurrence or hit
Used of a random arrow or stone that strikes without being aimed at the person struck, and of something encountered unintentionally.
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عَرَض
a non-permanent property or accident inhering in a substance
A technical theological and philosophical usage, including color, taste, smell, sound, motion, power, and will.
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عَرَض
an eagerly desired object, worldly temptation, or covetous desire
A Classical usage related to desire for worldly goods, distinct from the Quranic noun’s direct contextual sense.
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عَرَض
a gift
A general gift usage, related to but distinct from the specialized travel present عُرَاضَة.
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عَرَض
a state of being liable or exposed to something
Used in expressions for possibility, susceptibility, or exposure to loss.
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عُرُض
a manner of moving toward one side
Especially a gait approved in horses but disapproved in camels.
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عُرْضَة
a purpose, intention, or object of desire
The object is figuratively treated as a target or butt.
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عُرْضَة
a pretext or excuse
A lexical branch distinct from the Quranic obstacle or butt construction.
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عُرْضَة
fitness, strength, or ability sufficient for an undertaking
Used of a person or animal capable of marriage, evil, travel, or difficult terrain.
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عُرْضَة
a wrestling trick or maneuver for throwing an opponent
A specialized technical usage.
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عَرْضِيّ
a kind of cloth or garment
A lexical item distinct from the adjective meaning lateral.
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عُرْضِيّ
a camel that goes obliquely, is untrained, or is difficult to manage
The feminine form applies to a she-camel; the entry also describes an unstable rider.
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عُرْضِيَّة
sideways or heedless movement, refractoriness, roughness, or pride
Applied to a horse, she-camel, or person according to the relevant behavior.
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عِرَضَّى
briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness
The related adjectival use describes someone or something brisk or lively.
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عِرَضْنَة
an oblique course or brisk, sidelong movement
Used of a person’s gait or a mare or she-camel running alternately to either side; it can also describe a woman broad from plumpness.
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عِرَضْنَة
a proud, sidelong gait or looking from the outer angle of the eye
The expression may describe running, walking, or oblique looking.
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عِرَاض
matching or equaling another’s speech or action
Used in the expression for beginning to say what another has said.
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عِرَاض
a crosswise brand or branding implement for a camel
The mark may be placed on the thigh or neck and may identify footprints.
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عَرُوض
a road, especially one running through or along the side of a mountain
The word can also denote a way of speech by metaphorical extension.
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عَرُوض
an untrained or difficult she-camel
The animal may take an oblique course or require training.
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عَرُوض
a large quantity or multitude
A collective or comparative usage, as in a numerous tribe.
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عَرُوض
clouds
A poetic or lexical plural-like usage synonymous with cloud.
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عَرُوض
food
A rare nominal usage.
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عَرُوض
the intended meaning or purport of speech
Used for the sense understood from a statement, as distinct from its wording.
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عَرُوض
the like or counterpart of a question or matter
A comparative usage meaning that one matter corresponds to another.
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عَرُوض
prosody, the science of measuring Arabic verse
The term also denotes the corresponding metrical portion of a verse.
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عَرُوض
a transverse supporting pole or the middle structural part of a tent
The prosodic sense is explained through this tent imagery.
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العَرُوض
a geographic name for Mecca, Medina, Yemen, and surrounding regions
A proper-name usage.
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عُرُوض
the quality of being untrained in a she-camel
A specialized nominal describing the animal’s condition.
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عَرِيض
broad or wide
The adjective may also be extended to abundance, wealth, fatness, stupidity, or the extent of prayer.
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عَرِيض
a young male goat, especially one approaching sexual maturity
The term may also denote a yearling or a goat that crops vegetation with the side of its mouth.
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عُرَاضَة
a present or food brought to one’s family or offered by a traveler
Includes a travel gift, provisions given by a grain seller, and food requested from a water-owner.
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عَرُضِيّ
relating to prosody; a prosodist
A technical derivative of عَرُوض in the metrical sense.
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عَرُوضَاوَات
places containing the trees called أثل, أراك, and حمض
A plural geographic or botanical designation.
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عِرِّيض
an officious meddler or busybody who addresses himself to harming people
A person characterized by intrusive or harmful forwardness.
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عَارِض
something showing its breadth, side, or face and thereby appearing
A general active-participial use underlying several more specialized nominal branches.
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عَارِض
an occurrence, bane, or doubt that befalls or intervenes
Used of an event, disease, mischief, or doubt arising in the mind.
- Lane · entry 2814
عَارِض
whatever faces or comes before someone
A nominal use for something encountered or confronting the observer.
- Lane · entry 2814
عَارِض
an intervening or preventing thing; an obstacle
A thing that prevents someone from continuing, such as a mountain or other obstruction.
- Lane · entry 2814
عَارِض
the side of the cheek, face, mouth, beard, or neck
An anatomical usage; the plural may refer to the two cheek-sides or related teeth.
- Lane · entry 2814
عَارِض
a side tooth or the teeth at the side of the mouth
The exact dental range varies among lexical authorities; the common reference is to teeth beside the central incisors or toward the molars.
- Lane · entry 2814
عَارِض
one who gives a thing in exchange for another
A commercial active-participial usage.
- Lane · entry 2814
عَارِض
a reviewer who makes an army pass before him and examines it
A professional or functional designation derived from عرض الجيش.
- Lane · entry 2814
عَارِضَة
a want or object of need that has arisen
A need that presents itself to a person; distinct from the medical sense below.
- Lane · entry 2815
عَارِضَة
an animal slaughtered because of disease or injury
Used of a camel, sheep, or goat affected by a condition, contrasted with an animal slaughtered while healthy.
- Lane · entry 2815
عَارِضَة
a camel that eats thorny trees wherever it finds them
A specialized pastoral plural usage.
- Lane · entry 2815
عَارِضَة
a transverse beam, door lintel, or roof rafter
The word denotes a structural piece laid across, including a roof beam or the upper member of a doorway.
- Lane · entry 2815
عَارِضَة
hardiness, courage, energy, eloquence, or power of speech
The expression ذُو عَارِضَة characterizes a person of resolve, courage, eloquence, or good judgment.
- Lane · entry 2815
مَعْرِض
the place or circumstance in which something appears, is shown, mentioned, or intended
Used for the setting, occasion, or manner in which a statement or action is presented.
- Lane · entry 2817
مَعْرِض
a place for displaying or selling slaves or beasts
A market or exhibition place.
- Lane · entry 2817
مَعْرِض
pasturage sufficient to make cattle independent of fodder
A specialized pastoral noun.
- Lane · entry 2817
مُعْرِض
something showing its breadth or side and thereby appearing or becoming accessible
The item is presented to someone’s power or view and offers no resistance.
- Lane · entry 2818
مُعْرِض
one who contracts debts or seeks loans indiscriminately
The expression ادَّانَ مُعْرِضًا describes borrowing from whoever is available without regard to consequences.
- Lane · entry 2818
مُعْرِضَة
land containing herbage that grazing animals take while traversing it
A specialized description of accessible grazing land.
- Lane · entry 2818
مِعْرَض
a garment in which a girl is displayed or presented
The garment may be used at a wedding or when presenting a girl to a purchaser.
- Lane · entry 2819
مُعَرَّض
a camel branded with the mark called عِرَاض
The passive participle is used as a nominal for the branded animal.
- Lane · entry 2820
مُعَرَّض
meat that is not thoroughly cooked
The attestation is attributed with a variant reading using ص; the عرض form is nevertheless recorded as a lexical possibility.
- Lane · entry 2820
مُعَرَّضَة
a virgin displayed to the people of a tribe before being veiled
A specialized social usage concerning presentation for potential marriage.
- Lane · entry 2820
مُعَرِّض
one whose exposed provisions become available to crows or other takers
Attested in a poetic expression for a she-camel whose load is exposed to birds; it is related to offering or exposing provisions.
- Lane · entry 2821
مُعَرِّض
a circumciser of a boy
A specialized occupational noun.
- Lane · entry 2821
مِعْرَاض
an unfeathered, headless arrow that strikes with its thick middle or side
If it pierces the game it may be eaten; a strike with the middle part has distinct hunting rules.
- Lane · entry 2822
مِعْرَاض
an oblique, indirect, equivocal, or allusive mode of speech
The expression may mean saying one thing while intending another and is used to avoid a direct lie.
- Lane · entry 2822
مُعَارِض
a camel that does not proceed straight but takes alternately to the right and left
A specialized description of an oblique or sidelong gait.
- Lane · entry 2823
مُعْتَرِض
a person habitually cross, perverse, or displeasing in disposition
A figurative personal adjective derived from obstructive or oblique behavior.
- Lane · entry 2824
مُعْتَرِض
love that befalls at first sight and captivates immediately
A specialized figurative expression for sudden attachment that may depart as quickly as it came.
- Lane · entry 2824
عَرَضَ
to subject someone or something to a force or treatment, especially the sword, whip, or fire
In expressions such as عرضهم على السيف or على السوط or على النار, the result is killing, beating, or burning.
- Lane · entry 2782
عَرَضَ
to bring someone before a judge and accuse him
A judicial presentation and accusation construction.
- Lane · entry 2782
عَرَضَ
to read or recite a written work or book
The object is a writing or book; the reading may be from memory.
- Lane · entry 2782
عَرَضَ عِرْضَهُ
to correspond to or equal someone in grounds of honor or esteem
An alternative lexical interpretation of the construction concerning a person’s honor.
- Lane · entry 2782
عَارَضَ
to turn one’s side toward the wind without facing it or turning one’s back to it
Attested of a camel positioning itself obliquely relative to the wind.
- Lane · entry 2784
عَارَضَ
to look sideways or obliquely
Used of a sideways glance or oblique manner of looking.
- Lane · entry 2784
أَعْرَضَ
to extend broadly and at length
A literal or figurative Form IV widening usage, including breadth in a thing or generosity.
- Lane · entry 2785
أَعْرَضَ
to bear children broad in build
Attested of a woman giving birth to broadly built children.
- Lane · entry 2785
أَعْرَضَ
to state or frame a question broadly
The question is expressed widely or at length rather than narrowly.
- Lane · entry 2785
أَعْرَضَ
to put young male goats up for sale
The object is عِرْضَان, the plural of عَرِيض in its young-goat sense.
- Lane · entry 2785
أَعْرَضَ
to castrate young male goats
A specialized pastoral usage concerning عِرْضَان.
- Lane · entry 2785
أَعْرَضَ
possibly to circumcise a boy
A tentative lexical attribution in the supplied evidence, cross-referenced to the occupational noun for a circumciser.
- Lane · entry 2785
اِعْتَرَضَ
to enter a race or course from an intermediate point
Used of coming in among other horses rather than following the course from its beginning.
- Lane · entry 2788
اِعْتَرَضَ
to begin observing a month after its beginning
The observances are commenced from an intermediate point of the month.
- Lane · entry 2788
اِعْتَرَضَ
to engage in vain or false conduct and refuse the truth
Applied to a person who appears in what is futile and declines obedience to truth.
- Lane · entry 2788
اِعْتَرَضَ
to face or advance toward someone
A direct approach or advance toward the person addressed.
- Lane · entry 2788
اِعْتَرَضَ لَهُ
to present or address oneself to a person or an action
Includes advancing, coming forward, or applying oneself to an intended action.
- Lane · entry 2788
اِعْتَرَضَ لَهُ بِسَهْمٍ
to advance against someone with an arrow and shoot him
The construction includes attacking and killing with the arrow.
- Lane · entry 2788
اِعْتَرَضَ
to ride while reviewing an army
The rider makes the soldiers pass by and examines their condition or presence.
- Lane · entry 2788
اِعْتَرَضَ العَرُوضَ
to take an untrained she-camel in its untrained state
A specialized pastoral construction concerning an untrained camel.
- Lane · entry 2788
عَرْض
breadthwise, across, or crosswise
Used adverbially or in expressions for crossing or placing something transversely.
- Lane · entry 2790
عَرْض
the Day of Judgment
A conventional appellation formed from the presentation or examination of people on that day.
- Lane · entry 2790
عَرْض
madness, insanity, or possession by jinn
A nominal designation for a state of supernatural or mental affliction.
- Lane · entry 2790
عَرْض
an hour or portion of the night
Used in the expression for a portion of night that has passed.
- Lane · entry 2790
عِرْض
a great cloud appearing or extending across the horizon
A cloud mass named for its appearance or lateral extension across the sky.
- Lane · entry 2792
عِرْض
an army or great army
A figurative collective designation likening an army to a horizon-filling mass.
- Lane · entry 2792
عِرْض
numerous locusts
A collective usage for a multitude likened to a broad mass.
- Lane · entry 2792
عِرْض
one who falsely speaks evil of people
A personal designation for a man characterized by false reviling; a feminine form is also reported.
- Lane · entry 2792
عَرَض
an appurtenance or accessory
A general extension from something incidental or attached to another thing.
- Lane · entry 2793
عَرْضِيّ
house appurtenances or chambers
A dialectal Iraqi usage explicitly reported as unfamiliar to the Arabs.
- Lane · entry 2796
عَرُوض
a place lying opposite or across from someone
Used of a place over against another as one proceeds.
- Lane · entry 2806
عَرُوض
a camel that eats thorny plants when ordinary herbage is unavailable
A specialized pastoral noun for a camel feeding on thorns.
- Lane · entry 2806
عَرُوض
a yearling goat
A nominal usage equated with عَتُود in the supplied evidence.
- Lane · entry 2806
عَارِض
a gift appearing or presented by someone
The gift is something that presents itself from a person.
- Lane · entry 2814
أَعْرَاض
the upper parts of trees or shrubs
A plural botanical usage for the elevated or upper growth of trees.
- Lane · entry 2816
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The same consonantal root yields several homographic nouns distinguished by vowel pattern, including عَرَض, عَرْض, عُرْض, and عِرْض; their meanings should not be conflated.
The Quranic form عَرَضَ is presented as the transitive Form I verb ‘to present or expose’; the intransitive and other specialized Form I branches remain separately recorded under Classical meanings.
The contextual English renderings are not treated as independent evidence for senses; Quranic sense assignments rely on the supplied Mufradat and Lane evidence.