Quranic root
حيد
ḥ · y · d
The root centers on turning aside or deviating from a straight course.
The same orientation extends to repeated or induced withdrawal and, in nominal usage, to curved or projecting irregularities such as prominences of mountains and horns.
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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.
حَادَ
ḥāda
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
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- Quran occurrences
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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 turn aside from something and recoil from, avoid, or shun it.
In the Quranic occurrence, the verb is construed with مِنْ and describes turning away from something with aversion or fear, rather than merely changing direction.
- Lane · entry 16289
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 50:19word 9
“avoiding”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 50:19تَحِيدُavoiding
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 12 Classical meanings
حَادَ
To remove or take away a person or thing, taking it far away.
A transitive removal construction used with بِـ, as in حَادَ بِهِ.
- Lane · entry 16289
حَيَّدَ
To cut a thong or strip of leather lengthwise and make parts of it project beyond the rest.
Form II; the object is a thong or strip of skin or leather.
- Lane · entry 16290
حَايَدَ
To turn or move aside from, withdraw from, or avoid someone or something; also, to incline upon or against it.
Form III; the sense of inclining upon or against is reported as an alternative construction.
- Lane · entry 16291
حَيْدٌ
A projecting, prominent, or markedly curved part of a thing.
Used of a mountain ledge or prominence, a knot or prominence in a horn, a projecting strap or thong, and prominent or curved body parts, including the hips, haunches, or thighs of a camel.
- Lane · entry 16293
حَيْدَةٌ
The rugged part of a road.
- Lane · entry 16294
حَيْدَةٌ
An evil look accompanied by turning aside.
A conventional expression for looking at someone with aversion or hostility while turning away.
- Lane · entry 16294
حَيَدَى
A manner of walking marked by pride and self-conceit.
- Lane · entry 16295
حَيَدَى
An epithet for an ass or she-ass that shies or turns aside readily.
Applied especially to an ass that shies at its shadow or frequently turns aside from things.
- Lane · entry 16295
حَيْدَانٌ
Pebbles thrown aside by the legs of a moving beast.
- Lane · entry 16296
حَيَادِ
A call or command to turn aside or turn away.
An indeclinable expression occurring in حِيدِي حَيَادِ, used when fighting begins or by one fleeing.
- Lane · entry 16298
حَيُودٌ
One that turns away or departs much or repeatedly; an intensive epithet.
Reportedly applied to worldly prosperity that repeatedly declines or goes away.
- Lane · entry 16299
مَحِيدٌ
A place to which one turns aside, withdraws, or goes away.
An analogical noun of place, distinct from the same form's verbal-noun use.
- Lane · entry 16300
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic form is the imperfect active تَحِيدُ; the public headword حَادَ is the normalized Form I perfect citation form.
The spelling حَيِّدٌ is reported as a possible correction or variant of حَيَدَى, so it is retained only through the cross-reference and is not assigned an independent meaning.