Quranic root
صدد
ṣ · d · d
The root centrally expresses turning aside or away: a movement toward one side that can extend to diverting another from a course.
From this orientation arise meanings of avoidance, prevention, lateral position, facing or proximity, and directed attention. Separate lexical branches include clamour or laughter and the blood-mixed purulent fluid called صَدِيد.
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- Lane · entry 25510
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- Quran-attested forms
- 9
- Quran senses
- 42
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
صَدَّ
ṣadda
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 37 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 turn away from, avoid, shun, or be averse to something or someone.
Intransitive or used with عَنْ; includes turning the face away and refusing or abstaining from the object.
- Lane · entry 25510
- Mufradāt · row 819
Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:61word 13
“turning away”
To turn someone away or back; to divert, prevent, or hinder someone from doing something or reaching a course.
Transitive construction with عَنْ; the object may be a person, an action, or a path. Passive usage means to be turned away or hindered.
- Lane · entry 25510
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 14:3word 7
“and hinder”
Quran 40:37word 15
“and he was averted”
To cry out, vociferate, or raise a clamour.
A distinct vocalization is reported for صَدَّ يَصِدُّ; the Quranic occurrence at 43:57 has this lexical possibility alongside the laughter interpretation.
- Lane · entry 25510
- Mufradāt · row 819
To laugh violently, loudly, or immoderately.
A distinct lexical use reported for the same present-tense vocalization; the supplied contextual rendering of 43:57 reflects this interpretation.
- Lane · entry 25510
Selected Quran examples
Quran 43:57word 9
“laughed aloud”
صَدَّدَ
ṣaddada
- 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 cause someone to be turned away or hindered; in the passive, to be turned away or hindered.
The supplied Quranic occurrence is passive. The derived Form II headword is connected lexically with the Form I turning-away and prevention construction.
- Lane · entry 25511
- Lane · entry 25510
Selected Quran examples
Quran 13:33word 30
“and they are hindered”
To clap the hands or raise a clamour.
Attested in the Quranic derived-noun construction تَصْدِيَةً; this Quranic construction is distinct from the supplied passive occurrence at 13:33.
- Lane · entry 25511
صَدِيد
ṣadīd
- 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.
Purulent, blood-mixed fluid or ichor from a wound; in the Quran, the foul fluid offered as a drink to the inmates of Hell.
An adjective used substantively in the Quranic expression ماءٍ صَدِيدٍ; the fluid is described as watery pus or matter mixed with blood.
- Lane · entry 25523
- Mufradāt · row 819
Selected Quran examples
Quran 14:16word 7
“purulent”
صَدّ
ṣadd
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- 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.
Hindering or preventing people from a way, especially from the path of God.
Quranic verbal noun in constructions such as صَدٌّ عَنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ; it denotes active diversion or obstruction rather than merely personal aversion.
- Lane · entry 25510
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:217word 11
“but hindering (people)”
Quran 4:160word 10
“and for their hindering”
صُدُود
ṣudūd
- Part of speech
- Verbal 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.
Turning away from something; aversion or abstention.
The Quranic verbal noun describes a person's refusal or turning away from an addressed matter or person.
- Lane · entry 25510
- Mufradāt · row 819
Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:61word 15
“(in) aversion”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:217وَصَدٌّbut hindering (people)
- 3:99تَصُدُّونَ(do) you hinder
- 4:55صَدَّturned away
- 4:61يَصُدُّونَturning away
- 4:61صُدُودًۭا(in) aversion
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 21 Classical meanings
صَادَّهُ
To treat someone with aversion and opposition.
- Lane · entry 25512
أَصَدَّ
Of a wound: to contain or generate pus, or to run with purulent matter.
A specialized verbal use concerning a wound and the fluid called صَدِيد.
- Lane · entry 25513
تَصَدَّى
To address or apply oneself to someone or something; to direct one's attention toward it, approach it, or seek a requested benefit from it.
A derived reflexive or middle construction; it can describe directing oneself toward an affair or person, petitioning, or seeking proximity and favor.
- Lane · entry 25514
اِصْطَدَّ
To cover oneself with a veil or covering.
The supplied evidence records the feminine inflected form; the action itself is not restricted to a particular object class in the definition.
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صَدْصَدَةٌ
The beating of a sieve by hand.
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صَدْ
A hundred.
Reported as a Persian word apparently used by Arabs; it is a loanword rather than a central Arabic derivation of the root.
- Lane · entry 25517
صَدٌّ
The face or front surface of the hand.
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صُدٌّ
A side, flank, or lateral part: specifically the side of a valley, ravine, mountain, or road, and the edge of an arrow-notch.
The spatial sense extends to an adjacent tract, quarter, or side; the arrow usage refers to the two edges of the notch between which the bowstring rests.
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صُدٌّ
A mountain.
A separate nominal use from the more specific sense of a side or flank.
- Lane · entry 25519
صُدٌّ
A high-rising cloud or mass of clouds appearing like a mountain.
The form is reported alongside سَدٌّ or سُدٌّ in this sense.
- Lane · entry 25519
صَدَدٌ
Vicinity or a near place; the place or direction in front of, opposite, or facing something.
Used in locative expressions for being near, opposite, before, or directed toward an object.
- Lane · entry 25520
صَدَدٌ
An impediment or obstacle.
Attested in an idiomatic expression denying that an impediment stands in the way.
- Lane · entry 25520
صَدَدٌ
The matter or affair to which one's attention is directed.
Used in the phrase بِصَدَدِ to indicate that one is addressing, considering, or returning to a subject.
- Lane · entry 25520
صِدَادٌ
A woman's veil or covering.
The lexical item is a covering or screen; the source specifically records its use as a woman's garment.
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صَدُودٌ
A kind of garment for women or young girls.
A specialized garment term with variant identification in the transmitted lexicon.
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صَدِيد
Molten silver or the material melted from silver.
A figurative extension based on resemblance to purulent fluid.
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صُدَّى
A variety of fig, white outside, black within, and very sweet.
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صُدَّادٌ
A road or route to water.
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صُدَّادٌ
A small animal identified variously as a serpent, lizard or gecko, or a small field animal.
The transmitted identifications vary; the lexical branch denotes a small reptile or similar small creature rather than one securely fixed species.
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صَادٌّ
One who turns away, avoids, shuns, or leaves; one who is averse.
Active-participle noun or adjective derived from the intransitive turning-away sense.
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مَصْدُودٌ
Turned away or prevented from attaining something.
The evidence illustrates the expression with being prevented from good or prosperity; that illustration is not a restriction on the object.
- Lane · entry 25527
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The occurrence at 43:57 is supplied with the contextual gloss “laughed aloud,” while the lexical evidence also records cry or clamour for the same vocalization; both materially distinct readings are retained without treating the contextual gloss as the sole lexical definition.
The Quranic Form II clapping evidence concerns the derived noun تَصْدِيَةً in the cited Quranic expression, whereas the supplied QAC Form II occurrence is the passive verb at 13:33; no unsupplied verse location is used as an example.
A historical citation attached to the صَدِيد discussion is not converted into a modern surah:ayah location; the displayed Quran example uses only the independently supplied QAC location 14:16.
The derived Form V material تَصَدَّى is retained as a broader Classical Arabic entry because no corresponding QAC Form V group is supplied.