Quranic root
صيد
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The root centers on moving or proceeding straight without turning aside; hunting is understood as pursuing and taking quarry in its course.
The root-level principle is associated with direct, unturning movement. From this, the hunting branch describes pursuing wild game and taking it when captured; related developments include fixed or proud bearing and several specialized lexical extensions.
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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.
اِصْطَادَ
āiṣṭāda
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
- VIII
- 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 hunt, pursue, capture, or take wild game.
Quranic Form VIII imperative in 5:2; the action is permitted after release from the state of ihram.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:2word 26
“then (you may) hunt”
صَيْدٌ
ṣaydun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 5 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.
Wild game or quarry: an unowned, normally inaccessible animal, bird, or fish that is hunted, captured, or available as prey.
In the legal Quranic passages 5:1 and 5:94–96, the noun refers especially to game whose taking or eating is regulated; in 5:96 it explicitly includes sea catch. The word can denote either the quarry being pursued or the quarry already taken.
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Selected Quran examples
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 5:1ٱلصَّيْدِ(to) hunt
- 5:2فَٱصْطَادُوا۟ ۚthen (you may) hunt
- 5:94ٱلصَّيْدِthe game
- 5:95ٱلصَّيْدَthe game
- 5:96صَيْدُgame
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 26 Classical meanings
صَادَ
In extended usage, to captivate or win people through kindness, beneficence, or good treatment.
A figurative use of the hunting verb.
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صَادَ
In the idiom اِقْتَصِدْ تَصِدْ, to aim at what is right and just and thereby obtain what one seeks.
A fixed proverbial expression.
- Lane · entry 26991
صَادَ
In extended expressions, to draw truffles from the ground as though extracting quarry, or to collect rainwater in vessels.
Specialized figurative applications of the act of taking or catching.
- Lane · entry 26991
صَيَدٌ
A disease of a camel’s head or neck that causes the head to be raised, the neck to twist, or the animal to be unable to turn its face aside.
The related vocalization صَيِدٌ is also reported. The condition is associated with a vein between the eyes.
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صَيَدٌ
A fixed or elevated bearing in which the face does not turn aside, especially a proud or haughty posture of a person or king; also an inclination or bending of the neck.
This is a figurative development from the camel’s diseased posture, not a general restriction on the affected person’s identity.
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صَادَ
To cause someone’s neck to incline or bend.
An extended causative expression distinct from hunting.
- Lane · entry 26991
أَصَادَ
To make, incite, or induce someone to hunt or seek to capture wild animals, birds, or fish.
Form IV causative usage.
- Lane · entry 26992
أَصَادَ
To afflict a camel with the disease صَيَدٌ, or, in a reported contrary usage, to relieve or cure it.
The sources explicitly report opposite usages for this specialized verb.
- Lane · entry 26992
صَادٌ
A vein between a camel’s eyes, or between its eye and nose, associated with the disease صَيَدٌ.
An anatomical term of camel medicine.
- Lane · entry 26996
صَادٌ
Brass or copper, or a species of that metal.
The relational adjective صَادِيٌّ means made of or pertaining to this brass or copper.
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صَيْدَاءُ
White stone used for making cooking pots.
A specialized material term.
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صَيْدَاءُ
Rugged or pebbly ground, including red earth with rough stones, level ground covered with pebbles, or the pebbles themselves.
Several closely related geographical applications are reported under this headword.
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صَيْدَانٌ
Copper, including a gold-like material or glint found in stone cooking pots.
The gold-like description concerns the appearance of material in a cooking pot rather than a separate precious-metal sense.
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صَيْدَانٌ
Stone cooking pots.
A collective noun, with a singulative form reported in the lexical discussion.
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صَيْدَانٌ
Small pebbles.
Especially in the expression صَيْدَانُ الحَصَى.
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صَيْدَانَةٌ
A demon of the kind called غُولٌ.
A specialized folkloric noun.
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صَيْدَانَةٌ
A woman of evil disposition and much talk.
The source explicitly applies this lexical use to a woman.
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صَيُودٌ
A woman who takes, captures, or ensnares something from her husband.
A figurative or idiomatic description reported from traditional usage.
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صَيَّادٌ
A hunter, fowler, or fisherman; also an animal used for catching game, such as a hunting dog or hawk.
The intensive form denotes habitual or characteristic practice and can be applied to a female or to a trained hunting animal.
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صَائِدٌ
The shank or lower leg.
A dialectal usage reported for Yemen, unrelated to the ordinary active-participle sense ‘hunter’.
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صَيُّودٌ
An arrow that goes straight or hits its mark.
A specialized description of an arrow’s flight or accuracy.
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أَصْيَدُ
More or most apt, accustomed, or capable at taking or capturing prey.
A comparative or intensive adjective, illustrated in a proverbial expression.
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أَصْيَدُ
A lion, viewed as walking proudly without turning its head aside.
A figurative designation based on the proud or fixed posture associated with صَيَدٌ.
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مَصَادٌ
A place where game, birds, or fish are taken; a hunting, fowling, or fishing place.
A place noun for the activity or its setting.
- Lane · entry 27010
مَصَادٌ
The uppermost or highest part of a mountain.
This sense is reported with an attribution that some lexicographers assign it instead to مَصَدٌ.
- Lane · entry 27010
مِصْيَدَةٌ
A device used for hunting: a snare, trap, gin, or net.
The variants مَصْيَدَةٌ, مِصْيَدٌ, and مَصْيَدٌ are reported in the lexical discussion.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The public verb headword is normalized to the perfect citation form اِصْطَادَ, while the supplied Quran occurrence is an imperative form.
The Mufradat discussion of the isolated Quranic letter ص and the title of Sūrat Ṣād is treated as a homographic issue, not as a lexical meaning of the root صيد.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The packet input_integrity field reports 55 Lane primary source units, but the supplied primary entries enumerate 54 unit objects; all 54 supplied unit_ids are included in the coverage ledger.
The Mufradat remarks on ص وَالْقُرْآنِ as an alphabetic letter or surah title, with a possible interpretation from صَادَيْتُ; no corresponding QAC form group or secure direct assignment to the root صيد is supplied.