Quranic root
صدر
ṣ · d · r
The root has two established semantic centers: departure after arrival, especially from water or a place, and the chest or forepart of a person or thing.
From these centers develop meanings of returning or sending away, the front or uppermost part, precedence, the inner breast as the seat of thought and feeling, and several specialized bodily, garment, animal, and technical usages.
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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.
صَدَرَ
ṣadara
- 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 depart or go forth after having come to a place; to return or proceed away.
In the Quranic occurrence, people go forth separately after the gathering and judgment; the verb is intransitive.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 99:6word 2
“will proceed”
أَصْدَرَ
ʾaṣdara
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- 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 send or take someone or something away; to cause it to depart or return.
The transitive Form IV causative is used with a person, animal, or other object being sent away or brought back.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 28:23word 23
“take away”
صَدْر
ṣadr
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 44 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.
The chest or breast, the front bodily region of a person or other living being.
In Quranic usage, the noun may occur in the singular or plural and with attached pronouns; it can refer literally to the bodily chest.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 20:25word 5
“my breast”
Quran 6:125word 14
“his breast”
The inner breast or inward self, conceived as the seat of thoughts, feelings, intentions, and other inner powers.
This figurative use includes what is concealed or held within people and may be rendered contextually as the heart, mind, or inner self.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 11:5word 19
“(is in) the breasts”
Quran 22:46word 23
“the breasts”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 3:29صُدُورِكُمْyour breasts
- 3:118صُدُورُهُمْtheir breasts
- 3:119ٱلصُّدُورِ(is in) the breasts
- 3:154صُدُورِكُمْyour breasts
- 3:154ٱلصُّدُورِ(is in) the breasts
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 51 Classical meanings
صَدَرَ
To issue, proceed, or emanate from someone; said of a saying or action.
A figurative extension with the preposition عَنْ.
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صَدَرَ
To go to or come to a place.
This construction is distinguished from departure by its use with إِلَى.
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صَدَرَ
To strike, hit, hurt, or aim at someone in the chest or front.
A transitive bodily use; the evidence also describes directing one's aim toward the person.
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صَدِرَ
To suffer a complaint or disease of the chest.
The form is intransitive and denotes having a chest ailment.
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صَدَّرَ
To fit, tie, or place a breast-girth on a camel or on a camel's saddle.
The breast-girth is secured around the forepart of the camel or vehicle; the associated cord keeps it in place.
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صُدِّرَ
For a horse's breast to become wet with sweat.
A passive or intransitive bodily description of an animal.
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صَدَّرَ
To seat or place someone in the uppermost position, or to advance and promote him.
This is a figurative social or positional use.
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صَدَّرَ
To give a book or writing a title or opening, or to begin it with something.
Used of arranging the front or commencement of a written work.
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مُصَادَرَةٌ
Returning or going back together with another.
A Form III reciprocal or associative use, especially of returning from water or a place.
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مُصَادَرَةٌ
Vying or contending with another for precedence.
A figurative use concerning priority or rank.
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مُصَادَرَةٌ
Demanding, exacting, suing for, or prosecuting another for money or a specified property.
Used with عَلَى concerning the amount sought.
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مُصَادَرَةٌ
Releasing one another from an accounting or financial obligation on agreed terms.
A specialized administrative and financial construction.
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أَصْدَرَ
To complete an affair after beginning it.
A figurative extension in the paired construction أَوْرَدَ وَأَصْدَرَ.
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أَصْدَرَ
To cause a saying or action to issue or proceed from someone.
A causative figurative use with the saying or action made to emanate from a person.
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تَصَدَّرَ
To erect or thrust out the chest while sitting.
A bodily posture or movement.
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تَصَدَّرَ
For a horse to outstrip other horses with its chest.
A figurative or animal-performance use describing advancement to the front.
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تَصَدَّرَ
In an alternate reported reading, for the breast to become wet with sweat.
This is an attributed alternate interpretation of the horse description.
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تَصَدَّرَ
To sit or become placed in the highest position, and hence to become advanced or promoted.
Used of occupying the foremost position in a sitting place or in conducting people's affairs.
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تَصَادَرَ
To return together from water or another place.
A reciprocal Form VI use.
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تَصَادَرَ
To release one another from an account or obligation by mutual agreement.
A reciprocal financial construction.
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صَدْر
The spaces between the bones of the breast.
A specialized anatomical plural expression, بَنَاتُ الصَّدْرِ.
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صَدْر
The front, forepart, or uppermost portion of a thing.
Applied to such things as a valley, sitting place, ship, foot, sandal, arrow, or spear; it can denote the part that faces or fronts something.
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صَدْر
In the idiom “a day like the forepart of a spear,” a day of hardship or distress, or a day especially marked by war.
An idiomatic comparison based on the forepart of the spear.
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صَدْر
The first part or beginning of a thing, period, affair, book, speech, or verse.
It may refer to the beginning of a day, night, season, written work, or poetic line.
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صَدْر
The wide or widening part of a road.
A topographical use of the forepart or opening of a route.
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صَدْر
The head, chief, or foremost person of a people or group.
Extended expressions include صَدْرُ الصُّدُورِ for a chief official or judge.
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صَدْر
A part or portion of a thing.
A general figurative extension from a foremost or designated portion.
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صَدَرٌ
Return or departure from water, a country, place, or affair.
As an abstract noun it denotes the act or state of going back after arrival; it is also used in pilgrimage terminology for the return from ʿArafāt or Mecca.
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صُدْرَةٌ
The chest or the prominent upper part of the chest of a person or beast.
A specific nominal form for the bodily chest or its projecting upper portion.
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صُدْرَةٌ
A short garment or shirt worn over or next to the breast.
The diminutive form is also associated with a short vest or sleeveless waistcoat.
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صِدَارٌ
A garment covering the head, breast, and shoulders, or a small shirt worn next to the body.
The term includes garments associated with mourning and garments worn directly over the breast.
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صِدَارٌ
A mark made with a hot iron on the breast of a camel.
A specialized camel-marking use.
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صَدَارَةٌ
Precedence or priority.
An abstract noun of being foremost.
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صَادِرٌ
Returning, going back, or turning away; also a route by which people return from water.
The adjectival noun may describe a returning person or thing, while the related route expression contrasts with a route of approach to water.
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صَادِرٌ
In the expression “he has neither a returning nor an arriving,” to have nothing or no one.
An idiomatic expression, مَا لَهُ صَادِرٌ وَلَا وَارِدٌ.
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طَرِيقٌ صَادِرٌ
A road or way by which people return from water.
Opposed to طَرِيقٌ وَارِدٌ, a route by which people go to water.
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أَصْدَرُ
Having a large, prominent, or strongly developed chest.
An adjective applied to a person and, by extension, to animals.
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الأَصْدَرَانِ
The two pulsating veins beneath the temples, or the two sides or shoulder joints.
The paired anatomical term has no ordinary singular in this usage; its associated idiom can mean coming away empty-handed or, in another interpretation, behaving exultantly.
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تَصْدِيرٌ
The breast-girth or fore-girth placed on a camel, saddle, or camel vehicle.
A specialized item of camel equipment.
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مَصْدَرٌ
A place or way of returning, going back, or completing an affair.
Used literally of a place of departure and figuratively of the way an affair is completed or withdrawn from.
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مُصْدِرٌ
One who completes things or affairs.
An active participle of the Form IV causative, used in a figurative sense.
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مُصْدِرٌ
A dialectal name for the month Jumādā al-Awwal.
A regional or dialectal month-name use.
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مَصْدَرَةُ القَوْمِ
Those who are placed foremost or given precedence among a people or group.
A collective expression for the people granted priority.
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مُصَدَّرٌ
Strong in the chest; by extension, a lion or wolf characterized by strength in the chest.
An adjective for a person or animal.
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مُصَدَّرٌ
A horse whose breast has been reached by sweat.
An animal-description use.
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مُصَدَّرٌ
Having a distinctive white or black marking on the upper breast.
Applied to a horse, sheep, or goat according to the stated color pattern.
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مُصَدَّرٌ
A horse that outstrips others with its breast.
A participial animal-performance description.
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مُصَدَّرٌ
An arrow thick in the part called the صَدْر.
A specialized description of the arrow's forward or thick portion.
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المُصَدَّرُ
The first of the unnotched, unassigned arrows used to add weight to a collection in the game of maysir.
A specialized term of the pre-Islamic arrow game.
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مَصْدُورٌ
A person suffering from a complaint or disease of the chest.
A passive participle used as an adjectival noun.
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مَصْدُورٌ
Grieved, afflicted, or vexed.
A figurative extension from the distress associated with a chest ailment.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic Form I and Form IV verbs are separate valency patterns: the former denotes departing, while the latter causes another person or thing to depart.
The Quranic nominal citation form is the singular صَدْر, although most Quranic occurrences are inflected plural forms صُدُور.