Quranic root
بيد
b · y · d
The core orientation is perishing: something is brought to ruin, extinction, or an end.
The desert term بيداء is connected with a wilderness that destroys or exhausts those who enter it. The particle بيدَ meaning “other than” is treated as divergent from this core, possibly constituting an independent origin.
- Maqāyīs · row 890
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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.
بَادَ
bāda
- 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 perish, pass away, become extinct, or come to an end.
Form I intransitive verb; in the supplied Quran occurrence, it describes something that may perish or cease to exist.
- Lane · entry 37534
Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:35word 10
“will perish”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 18:35تَبِيدَwill perish
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 7 Classical meanings
بَادَ
Of the sun: to set.
A conventional use referring specifically to the sun’s setting.
- Lane · entry 37534
أَبَادَ
To cause to perish; to destroy or annihilate.
Form IV causative verb, commonly transitive with the destroyed person or thing as its object.
- Lane · entry 37535
بَيْدَ
Other than; except that.
An inseparable particle used before أَنَّ and its complement, normally in the accusative and in an exceptive construction.
- Lane · entry 37536
بَيْدَ
On or upon.
A reported alternative analysis of the particle in a traditional saying; this interpretation is disputed in the supplied evidence.
- Lane · entry 37536
بَيْدَ
Because of; on account of.
A reported interpretation in an explanatory construction; other authorities analyze the same usage as meaning “other than” or “except that.”
- Lane · entry 37536
بَيْدَاءُ
A desert or waterless open tract; a level expanse with little or no vegetation.
The term can denote a broad, plain, rugged, or otherwise barren tract of desert.
- Lane · entry 37537
بَيْدَانَةٌ
A she-ass, especially a wild or desert-dwelling she-ass.
The word is also treated by some authorities as an epithet rather than a substantive animal-name; its derivation is disputed.
- Lane · entry 37538
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The particle بَيْدَ has disputed Classical Arabic analyses: “other than/except that” is distinguished from reported interpretations “on/upon” and “because of.”