Quranic root
دحر
d · ḥ · r
The root centers on driving away, expelling, and putting at a distance.
The core verb develops into expressions for forceful removal or banishment; the verbal noun denotes expulsion or repelling, the passive participle denotes what has been driven away, and a derived noun denotes a means of driving away.
- Maqāyīs · row 1713
- Lane · entry 283
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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.
دُحُور
duḥūr
- 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.
Driving away, expulsion, or repelling; putting at a distance.
As a verbal noun, it names the action or result of removal. In the Quranic expression at 37:9, it may also be understood instrumentally as the repelling force or means—“that which drives away.” Comparative wording derived from the same root can intensify the violence or ignominy of this action without creating a separate sense.
- Lane · entry 283
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 37:9word 1
“Repelled”
مَدْحُور
madḥūr
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- 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.
Driven away, expelled, banished, or put at a distance.
A passive participle describing the resulting state of a referent cast away or excluded. In Quranic usage it can express banishment or rejection, including figurative exclusion from divine mercy; “rejected” and “abandoned” are contextual renderings of the same lexical state.
- Lane · entry 288
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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.
- 7:18مَّدْحُورًۭا ۖand expelled
- 17:18مَّدْحُورًۭاrejected
- 17:39مَّدْحُورًاabandoned
- 37:9دُحُورًۭا ۖRepelled
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 1 Classical meanings
مَدْحَرَة
A cause or means of driving away or repelling.
A noun for something that serves as an instrument or means of expulsion; it is identified lexically with the verbal noun دُحُور.
- Lane · entry 287
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The instrumental interpretation associated with دُحُورًا in the Quranic expression at 37:9 is a construction-specific reading and should not be generalized to every occurrence of the verbal noun.
The contextual renderings “expelled,” “rejected,” and “abandoned” for مَدْحُورًا represent one banishment or exclusion sense rather than separate lexical meanings.