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Quranic root

طرد

ṭ · r · d

A root centered on putting something or someone at a distance, driving it away, or causing separation.

From physical removal, the lexicon extends to pursuing or hunting, attacking, successive following, and orderly or continuous progression by comparison with one thing driving or following another.

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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.

طَرَدَ

ṭarada

Part of speech
Verb · Form I
Form
I
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.

  1. To drive away, expel, or remove someone from one's presence or place, treating the person as unwanted or contemptible.

    A transitive Form I verb; in the Quran it concerns sending people away or refusing to retain them among one's company.

    • Lane · entry 11163
    • Mufradāt · row 892
    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 6:52word 2

    send away

    Quran 6:52word 22

    So were you to send them away

    Quran 11:30word 7

    I drove them away

طَارِدٌ

ṭāridun

Part of speech
Active participle
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.

  1. One who drives away or expels.

    Active participle of طَرَدَ; in the Quran it is used of a person who would drive believers away.

    • Lane · entry 11163
    • Mufradāt · row 892
    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 11:29word 13

    going to drive away

    Quran 26:114word 3

    the one to drive away

Occurrences in the Quran

Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.

  • 6:52تَطْرُدِsend away
  • 6:52فَتَطْرُدَهُمْSo were you to send them away
  • 11:29بِطَارِدِgoing to drive away
  • 11:30طَرَدتُّهُمْ ۚI drove them away
  • 26:114بِطَارِدِthe one to drive away
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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 47 Classical meanings
  • طَرَدَ الإِبِلَ

    To drive, bring, or gather camels together from their separate quarters.

    A Form I use specifically attested with camels.

    • Lane · entry 11163
  • طَرَدَ

    To pursue, course, hunt, trap, or catch wild animals and similar game.

    A hunting use of Form I; طَرَدٌ and طِرَادٌ can denote the activity of pursuing game.

    • Lane · entry 11163
    • Lane · entry 11177
  • طَرَدَ القَوْمَ

    To come upon a people, pass through them, or destroy them.

    A specialized Form I usage reported with a people or group as object.

    • Lane · entry 11163
  • طَرَدَتِ الرِّيحُ

    For the wind, to blow pebbles and dust away with violence.

    A figurative or extended use in which the wind performs the driving-away action.

    • Lane · entry 11163
  • تَطْرُدُ السَّرَابَ

    For a plain to have the mirage run along it like water.

    A figurative expression applied to plains and mirage.

    • Lane · entry 11163
  • طَرَدَ بَصَرَهُ

    To direct one's observation or attention to an affair.

    A figurative Form I construction with the eye or observation as the thing directed.

    • Lane · entry 11163
  • طَرَدَ الخِلَافَ

    To put forward opposition or contradiction in a question.

    A figurative expression used of disputation or disagreement in an issue.

    • Lane · entry 11163
  • طَرَّدَ

    To prolong or extend the voice; also, to extend or stretch out a whip.

    A Form II extended usage; the vocal and whip constructions are reported together under this derived form.

    • Lane · entry 11164
  • طَرَّدَهُ جَرْحَهُمْ

    For a judge to tell a litigant to invalidate or challenge the testimony of witnesses, if able.

    A specialized figurative Form II construction in judicial procedure.

    • Lane · entry 11164
  • طَارَدَ قِرْنَهُ

    To charge upon, assault, attack, and fight an adversary.

    A reciprocal combat sense of Form III; the opponents may each charge the other whether either drives the other away or not.

    • Lane · entry 11165
  • طَارَدَ

    To make a horse run in a race.

    An extended Form III use associated with racing.

    • Lane · entry 11165
  • أَطْرَدَ

    To cause or order someone to be driven away, expelled, banished, or placed at a distance, especially from a town or country.

    A causative Form IV use; it may describe an authority ordering expulsion or banishment.

    • Lane · entry 11166
  • أَطْرَدَ الإِبِلَ

    To order that camels be driven, brought, or gathered together from their separate quarters.

    A Form IV causative construction with camels.

    • Lane · entry 11166
  • أَطْرَدَ الغَنَمَ

    To send the he-goats among a herd.

    A specialized Form IV livestock usage.

    • Lane · entry 11166
  • أَطْرَدَ

    For one about to race another, to propose a wager tied to who outstrips whom.

    A specialized Form IV racing construction.

    • Lane · entry 11166
  • تَطَارَدَا

    For two opponents to charge upon, assault, and fight each other.

    A reciprocal Form VI combat use, whether or not either opponent drives the other away.

    • Lane · entry 11167
  • اِطَّرَدَ

    To proceed in an uninterrupted, orderly, or consistent sequence; hence for water, affairs, speech, recitation, definitions, rules, or usage to follow a regular course.

    An extended Form VIII sense of one part following another; with rules and usage it denotes regular or consistently applicable conformity.

    • Lane · entry 11169
  • اِسْتَطْرَدَ

    To desire or seek to drive away, expel, banish, or place at a distance.

    A Form X desiderative or seeking use.

    • Lane · entry 11170
  • اِسْتَطْرَدَ لَهُ

    To retreat or wheel widely from an adversary in battle as a stratagem, then return upon him.

    A specialized combat construction in which the withdrawal draws an opponent from an untenable position to one that can be attacked.

    • Lane · entry 11170
  • عَلَى وَجْهِ الاِسْتِطْرَادِ

    By way of digression, with something mentioned outside its proper place.

    A figurative noun-based expression derived from the stratagem of drawing away and returning.

    • Lane · entry 11170
  • طَرَدٌ

    Possibly a sucker or offset of a palm tree, as though pushed forth.

    The transmitted entry is explicitly uncertain and may contain a textual error.

    • Lane · entry 11171
  • مَاءٌ طَرِدٌ

    Water in which animals have waded and voided urine and dung.

    An adjectival description of water rendered impure or fouled by animals.

    • Lane · entry 11172
  • طِرْدَةٌ

    A charge or assault in which two horsemen attack each other at the same time.

    A noun for a simultaneous paired cavalry charge.

    • Lane · entry 11173
  • طُرْدِينٌ

    A particular food associated with the Kurds.

    A specialized lexical item with no broader semantic restriction supplied.

    • Lane · entry 11174
  • طِرَادٌ

    A straight, direct, or even course of walking.

    An extended noun use describing the manner of walking.

    • Lane · entry 11175
  • طَرِيدٌ

    A person or animal driven away, expelled, banished, or outcast; also a removed or distant one.

    The adjective may be applied to a female as well as a male, and can describe a she-camel without a feminine ending.

    • Lane · entry 11176
  • طَرِيدٌ

    One born after another; by extension, either of two successive entities such as night and day.

    The entry also reports an opposing usage for one born before another; the central image is succession as if one follows or drives another.

    • Lane · entry 11176
  • طَرِيدٌ

    Old or worn-out, applied to a garment or piece of cloth.

    An extended adjectival use.

    • Lane · entry 11176
  • طَرِيدٌ

    The base or lower part of a palm-tree raceme.

    A specialized botanical noun use.

    • Lane · entry 11176
  • طَرِيدَةٌ

    A wild animal or similar creature that is pursued, hunted, trapped, or caught.

    A feminine noun for the object of the chase, including the female wild ass pursued by a male.

    • Lane · entry 11177
  • طَرِيدَةٌ

    A group of camels driven away together, including camels stolen or seized by mounted attackers.

    A collective noun use applied to camels carried off or driven away.

    • Lane · entry 11177
  • طَرِيدَةٌ

    A notched cane or small wooden tool used to smooth spindles, sticks, or arrows by repeatedly drawing them through it.

    A specialized implement sense.

    • Lane · entry 11177
  • طَرِيدَةٌ

    An oblong piece or long strip of cloth, silk, or rag; also a wetted rag used to wipe an oven.

    A material-object sense covering several cloth and rag applications.

    • Lane · entry 11177
  • طَرِيدَةٌ

    A narrow strip of herbage or land.

    A specialized description of a narrow elongated tract.

    • Lane · entry 11177
  • طَرِيدَةٌ

    The line or streak between the rump-bone and the withers.

    A specialized anatomical term.

    • Lane · entry 11177
  • طَرِيدَةٌ

    A game played by Arab desert children, also played by girls, involving touching parts of another player's body.

    A specialized name for the game; some details of its terminology are reported as not firmly established.

    • Lane · entry 11177
  • طَرَّادٌ

    A small, swift kind of ship or boat.

    The entry is reported with some textual uncertainty about the form, but gives this as a lexical use.

    • Lane · entry 11178
  • طَرَّادٌ

    One who prolongs a recitation, especially Quran recitation, so as to drive listeners away by the length of the standing or reading.

    A figurative agent noun based on driving people away through excessive duration.

    • Lane · entry 11178
  • طَرَّادٌ

    Wide, spacious, or ample, applied to a plain, place, roof, or region.

    An extended adjectival use; regions may be described as spacious in which the mirage appears to flow.

    • Lane · entry 11178
  • طَرَّادٌ

    Long, whole, or complete in duration, applied to a day, month, or year.

    A temporal adjectival use describing an entire or extended period.

    • Lane · entry 11178
  • طَوَارِدُ الإِبِلِ

    Camels that remain behind the others, as though driving the others onward.

    A specialized plural expression for lagging camels.

    • Lane · entry 11179
  • مِطْرَدٌ

    A short spear used for hunting or piercing wild animals, especially wild asses.

    An instrument noun associated with driving or pursuing game.

    • Lane · entry 11181
  • مَطْرَدَةٌ

    A means of driving away or removing something, especially a means of removing disease from the body.

    A noun of means or instrument in an extended medical expression.

    • Lane · entry 11182
  • مَطْرَدَةٌ

    The beaten track or the main, middle part of a road.

    A figurative noun for the principal or central course of a road.

    • Lane · entry 11182
  • مُطَرِّدٌ

    Apparently, a spear that is altogether straight, so that its whole length trembles rather than bends.

    A rare poetic attribution, reported with a possibility of textual error or poetic license.

    • Lane · entry 11185
  • مُطَّرِدٌ

    Following an even, continuous, or regular course; hence applied to a stream, running camel, horse's breathing, spear, coat of mail, speech, or other regularly ordered thing, and to a word, rule, or usage that conforms consistently to analogy or common practice.

    An extended adjectival sense of continuity and uniformity across physical objects, speech, and linguistic rules.

    • Lane · entry 11188
  • مُتَطَارِدٌ

    For sand, having one part drive away and follow another.

    A specialized description of successive, shifting sand.

    • Lane · entry 11189

Cautions

Points that affect how this root should be read.

  • The Quranic nominal group طَارِد is presented under the singular active-participle citation form, not the inflected Quranic بِطَارِدِ.

  • Several Classical Arabic entries are rare or explicitly qualified as possible mistranscriptions; those qualifications are retained in their usage conditions rather than treated as Quranic evidence.