Quranic root
حرد
ḥ · r · d
The root expresses three principal orientations: directing oneself toward a goal, angry or forceful withholding, and turning aside or withdrawing.
These orientations extend into deprivation or cessation, separation and solitude, and specialized descriptions of distortion, bodily impairment, rope structure, camel anatomy, and reed construction.
- Maqāyīs · row 1330
- Mufradāt · row 309
- Lane · entry 14040
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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.
حَرْد
ḥard
- 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.
Directed aim, purpose, or determined course toward an intended object.
In the Quranic construction وَغَدَوْا عَلَى حَرْدٍ قَادِرِينَ, understood as setting out with a fixed aim or purpose.
- Lane · entry 14040
- Lane · entry 14046
Selected Quran examples
Quran 68:25word 3
“determination”
Withholding or prevention of what is intended to be obtained.
In the same Quranic construction, an alternative interpretation understands حَرْد as withholding or preventing access, associated with sharpness or anger; this is a distinct classical reading of the verse.
- Lane · entry 14040
- Mufradāt · row 309
Selected Quran examples
Quran 68:25word 3
“determination”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 68:25حَرْدٍۢdetermination
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 28 Classical meanings
حَرَدَ
To separate oneself from others; to leave, abandon, or forsake one's people and withdraw to a place apart.
Describes a person's withdrawal or removal from communal life.
- Lane · entry 14040
حَرِدَ
To become angry or exasperated, with a desire to kill the one who caused the anger.
Also used with عَلَى for being angry with someone.
- Lane · entry 14040
حَرِدَ
Of a camel or other beast: to suffer a foreleg tendon disorder that causes it to shake or strike the ground with the leg.
The condition concerns the forelegs and may result from a cord binding the fore shank to the arm.
- Lane · entry 14040
حَرِدَ
Of a man: to be oppressed by the weight of his coat of mail, so that he cannot stretch himself out while walking.
- Lane · entry 14040
حَرِدَ
Of a bowstring: to have one or more of its component portions longer than the others.
The description concerns unevenness among the strands or twisted portions of the string.
- Lane · entry 14040
حَرَّدَ
To twist or plait a rope so tightly that its strands knot and overlap; to roll it into a rounded form; also to bend or curve a thing into an arch.
- Lane · entry 14041
حَرَّدَ
To seek shelter or lodging in a hut with a gibbous roof.
The construction describes a person's resort to a particular kind of hut or covert.
- Lane · entry 14041
حَارَدَ
To become withholding or deficient: to yield little or no milk, or to cease supplying what is contained within.
Of a she-camel or woman, it concerns milk; of a vessel, its beverage; of a year, little rain. The same verb is also used of someone about to give and then refraining, and of a condition that changes into an unfamiliar or displeasing state.
- Lane · entry 14042
أَحْرَدَ
To separate, set apart, or remove someone or something.
- Lane · entry 14043
اِنْحَرَدَ
Of a star: to dart downward.
- Lane · entry 14045
حَرْد
Anger, or rancour and enmity retained in the heart while awaiting an opportunity to act on it.
- Lane · entry 14046
حِرْد
An intestine or gut, especially the gut of a camel.
The plural is حُرُودٌ; a reported sense of “piece of a camel's hump” is explicitly rejected in the lexical evidence.
- Lane · entry 14047
- Lane · entry 14055
حَرَد
A disease or fault of a camel's forelegs involving dryness or relaxation of the tendons and causing repeated shaking or striking of the ground.
The condition is generally described as acquired rather than natural and affects the forelegs, not the hind legs.
- Lane · entry 14048
حَرِد
Uneven in its strands; especially a rope or bowstring whose twisted portions are not of equal length.
- Lane · entry 14049
حَرِد
Needy or in want.
A rare descriptive use applied to a person.
- Lane · entry 14049
حُرْدِيّ
A bundle of reeds or canes laid across rafters in the construction of a roof.
The word is described as an Arabicized term and has the plural حَرَادِيّ.
- Lane · entry 14051
حُرْدِيّ
A crosswise reed girdle or a set of reeds used on a reed fence or attached in bent form to the arched branches of a grapevine to support its shoots.
These are specialized uses in reed fencing and vine cultivation.
- Lane · entry 14051
حُرْدِيّ
A man having wide or capacious intestines like those of a camel.
- Lane · entry 14051
حَرُود
A she-camel yielding little milk or ceasing to yield milk.
- Lane · entry 14054
حُرُود
The prominent edges, knots, or overlapping portions of a rope produced by very tight twisting of its strands.
The same form also serves as the plural of حِرْد in the anatomical sense.
- Lane · entry 14055
حَرِيد
Solitary or separated from others; a person who withdraws from his people, or a single and isolated individual.
It may describe a solitary person, a tribe that does not mix with others, or a solitary star.
- Lane · entry 14056
حُرَيْدَاء
A tendon or sinew in the place where a foreleg may be bound to the arm, causing an affected beast to shake the leg while walking.
The tendon may be naturally affected or may produce the condition called حَرَد.
- Lane · entry 14057
حَارِد
Angry or exasperated; also, a compact, strong, formidable person or lion who appears angry because of disdainful bearing.
The second description may denote someone feared or dreaded whose manner suggests anger.
- Lane · entry 14060
أَحْرَد
A camel or other beast affected by the foreleg disease called حَرَد.
The feminine form is حَرْدَاء.
- Lane · entry 14061
أَحْرَد
Oppressed by the weight of one's coat of mail and unable to walk with the body fully extended.
- Lane · entry 14061
أَحْرَد
Niggardly, mean, or sordid; close-fisted.
The close-fisted use is expressed with أَحْرَدُ اليَدَيْنِ.
- Lane · entry 14061
مُحَرَّد
Applied to a rope or bowstring: plaited or twisted so that it has prominent, distorted, or overlapping edges or strands.
- Lane · entry 14062
مُحَرَّد
A room, house, or hut roofed with reed bundles, especially one with a gibbous or arched roof.
The term may be used substantively for the room or house itself.
- Lane · entry 14062
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The sole Quran occurrence, حَرْدٍ in 68:25, has competing classical interpretations: directed aim or determination, and withholding or prevention associated with anger. The supplied contextual gloss reflects the first reading but does not by itself establish the lexical senses.