Quranic root
حيض
ḥ · y · ḍ
The root centers on the flowing of reddish fluid, especially menstrual blood.
The semantic orientation extends from the emission of red, blood-like fluid from a gum-acacia tree to menstruation and related terms; Classical Arabic also applies the flow image to torrents and water.
- Maqāyīs · row 1490
- Lane · entry 16334
- Lane · entry 16338
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- Quran-attested forms
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- Quran senses
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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.
حَاضَ
ḥāḍa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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 menstruate; to have menstrual blood flow from the womb.
Quranic Form I usage describing menstruation. The public headword is the regular perfect citation form, while the attested Quran form is an imperfect feminine plural form.
- Lane · entry 16334
Selected Quran examples
Quran 65:4word 14
“[they] menstruated”
مَحِيضٌ
maḥīḍun
- Part of speech
- Noun · passive participle pattern
- Quran occurrences
- 3 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.
Menstruation, menstrual flow, or the period or time of menstruation.
A substantive noun referring to the menstrual condition or its period. This sense fits the Quranic references to menstruation and to those who no longer expect it.
- Mufradāt · row 376
- Lane · entry 16344
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:222word 3
“[the] menstruation”
Quran 65:4word 4
“the menstruation”
The place associated with menstruation, specifically the female genital place.
In the Quranic construction concerning approaching women during مَحِيض, the noun is understood as the place of intercourse associated with menstruation rather than the menstrual flow itself.
- Lane · entry 16344
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:222word 10
“(their) [the] menstruation”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:222ٱلْمَحِيضِ ۖ[the] menstruation
- 2:222ٱلْمَحِيضِ ۖ(their) [the] menstruation
- 65:4ٱلْمَحِيضِthe menstruation
- 65:4يَحِضْنَ ۚ[they] menstruated
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 17 Classical meanings
حَاضَ
To attain the age at which menstruation begins.
A Classical usage describing the onset of menstruating age rather than an individual menstrual flow.
- Lane · entry 16334
حَاضَ
Of a gum-acacia tree, to emit a blood-like fluid or gum.
A tropical usage applied to the reddish substance emitted by the tree.
- Lane · entry 16334
حَاضَ
Of a torrent, to overflow, pour forth from fullness, or run.
A tropical flow construction applied to a torrent.
- Lane · entry 16334
حَيَّضَ
To attribute menstruation to a woman or declare her to be menstruating.
Form II causative or ascriptive usage.
- Lane · entry 16335
حَيَّضَ
To have sexual intercourse with a woman during her menstruation.
A conventional Form II construction specifying intercourse during menstruation.
- Lane · entry 16335
حَيَّضَ
To make water flow.
A tropical Form II causative usage.
- Lane · entry 16335
تَحَيَّضَ
To abstain from prayer during menstruation, or to reckon oneself menstruating and act accordingly.
A Form V reflexive usage concerning conduct associated with menstruation.
- Lane · entry 16336
اُسْتُحِيضَ
To suffer persistent or excessive vaginal bleeding outside the menstrual flow.
Includes bleeding that continues after the menstrual days or flows continuously from a non-menstrual vein; it is distinguished from ordinary حَيْض.
- Lane · entry 16337
حَيْضٌ
Menstrual blood itself.
A nominal use for the blood of menstruation.
- Lane · entry 16338
حَيْضٌ
A blood-like fluid flowing from gum-acacia trees.
A tropical nominal use for the tree's emitted fluid.
- Lane · entry 16338
حَيْضَةٌ
A single menstruation, turn, or episode of menstrual flow.
In practical law, it can denote the customary days of menstruation.
- Lane · entry 16339
حَيْضَةٌ
A single flow of water or a similar fluid.
A tropical nominal use.
- Lane · entry 16339
حِيضَةٌ
Menstruation, the state or condition of menstruating, or menstrual blood.
A noun for the state of menstruation and, by extension, its blood; the associated state can include abstention from prayer and fasting.
- Lane · entry 16340
حِيضَةٌ
A cloth placed over the vulva by a menstruating woman; in a related use, a discarded piece of cloth.
A concrete nominal use developed from the menstrual context.
- Lane · entry 16340
حَيْضِيٌّ
Menstrual; relating to menstruation.
An adjectival derivative describing what pertains to menstruation.
- Lane · entry 16341
حَائِضٌ
A menstruating woman; in differing usage, a woman of menstruating age or a female of the menstruating kind.
The term is an active participial designation applied particularly to females. Classical explanations differ over whether the defining feature is current menstruation, attainment of menstruating age, or the female kind more generally.
- Lane · entry 16343
مُسْتَحَاضَةٌ
A woman with persistent or excessive non-menstrual vaginal bleeding.
Refers to bleeding after the menstrual days or continuous bleeding from a non-menstrual vein, distinguished from ordinary menstruation.
- Lane · entry 16346
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic noun مَحِيض is morphologically tagged in the supplied QAC data as a passive-participle form, but the lexical evidence treats it substantively as a noun of menstruation, time, and place.
The contextual English gloss does not itself distinguish the two Quranic مَحِيض senses; the place sense is assigned from the independently supplied lexical explanation of the Quranic construction.