Quranic root
حنذ
ḥ · n · dh
The root centers on bringing something to a thoroughly matured or cooked state through heat.
From cooking flesh with heated stones, the semantic field extends to inducing sweat, burning heat, and a beverage prepared by limiting its water so that its strength and heat remain.
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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.
حَنِيذٌ
ḥanīdhun
- 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.
Roasted, thoroughly cooked flesh; in the Quranic expression, flesh prepared by roasting, especially with heated stones.
An adjective describing flesh or meat. The Quranic occurrence describes a calf brought as food; lexical explanations emphasize thorough roasting, often between or beneath heated stones and sometimes until the juices drip.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 11:69word 15
“roasted”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 11:69حَنِيذٍۢroasted
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 15 Classical meanings
حَنَذَ
To roast flesh thoroughly, especially by means of heated stones or by covering or burying it in fire.
Form I verb; reported roasting methods include placing heated stones upon the flesh, cooking it in a ground oven, or roasting it until its moisture drips.
- Lane · entry 15858
حَنَذَ
To scald a young animal or similar creature so as to remove its hair.
A distinct reported use of the Form I verb.
- Lane · entry 15858
حَنَذَتْهُ الشَّمْسُ
For the sun to burn or distress someone, causing pain in the head.
Tropical or figurative use of the Form I verb.
- Lane · entry 15858
حَنَذَ الفَرَسَ
To exercise a horse and cover it in the sun so that it sweats, reducing its fat and preventing labored breathing.
A specialized Form I construction involving running the horse for one or two heats and then layering coverings over it in the sun.
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أَحْنَذَ
To cook flesh thoroughly.
Form IV verb.
- Lane · entry 15859
أَحْنَذَ
To prepare a beverage or wine with an altered water proportion, especially by reducing the water and leaving the drink strong.
In the beverage expression إِذَا سَقَيْتُ فَأَحْنِذْ, authorities report differing interpretations, including adding much or little water or serving the drink nearly undiluted.
- Lane · entry 15859
اِسْتَحْنَذَ
To induce one's own sweating by lying in the sun and covering oneself with clothes.
Form X verb; the action is deliberate and performed in the sun.
- Lane · entry 15860
حَنْذٌ / حُنْذَةٌ / حِنَاذٌ
Intense, violent, or burning heat.
Closely related nominal forms for extreme heat.
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- Lane · entry 15865
حِنْذِيذٌ
A person who sweats profusely.
A descriptive noun or adjective associated with abundant sweating.
- Lane · entry 15863
حَنَاذِ
The sun, used as a proper name.
An indeclinable proper-name usage.
- Lane · entry 15864
حَنِيذٌ
Heated or hot water.
A separate nominal usage from the sense relating to roasted flesh.
- Lane · entry 15866
حَنِيذٌ
A kind of oil.
A reported tropical nominal usage.
- Lane · entry 15866
حَنِيذٌ
A perfumed preparation of marsh-mallow and similar substances used for washing the head.
A specialized preparation-related nominal usage.
- Lane · entry 15866
شَرَابٌ مُحْنَذٌ
A beverage or wine mixed with much water.
A phrase describing a diluted drink.
- Lane · entry 15867
حَنَذٌ
A place or locality called Ḥanadh.
A place-name usage reported separately from the heat and cooking meanings.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Form IV beverage usage has conflicting reported interpretations concerning whether water is increased or reduced; the alternatives are preserved in its usage conditions.