Quranic root
درهم
d · r · h · m
The supplied evidence presents دِرْهَم as an Arabicized monetary term for a silver coin used in transactions, rather than establishing an independent native root principle.
The central lexical sense is the silver coin; related Classical uses extend to its standard weight, collective money or cash, and a round plot likened to the coin. Derived forms also express resemblance to the coin or unrelated developments involving age and dimness.
- Lane · entry 626
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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.
دِرْهَم
dirham
- Part of speech
- 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.
A silver coin used as money; in the Quranic plural, a counted quantity of such coins.
The Quranic occurrence is the plural دَرَاهِمَ in a commercial exchange context.
- Lane · entry 626
- Mufradāt · row 468
Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:20word 4
“dirhams”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 12:20دَرَٰهِمَdirhams
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 8 Classical meanings
دِرْهَم
A unit of weight corresponding to the weight of a dirham coin; a drachm or dram.
Historical standards varied, and the evidence records several regional and period-specific weights.
- Lane · entry 626
دِرَاهِم
Money, cash, or coin considered collectively, without reference to a specified number of individual coins.
Especially attested as an absolute use of the plural.
- Lane · entry 626
دِرْهَم
A round piece of land, such as a garden or rounded hollow, likened to the shape of a dirham.
A figurative usage based on the coin’s roundness; the evidence preserves a poetic comparison.
- Lane · entry 626
دَرْهَمَ
To become round so as to resemble dirhams, as of leaves becoming rounded.
A derived Form I usage attested in describing leaves; the comparison to dirhams motivates the meaning.
- Lane · entry 624
اِدْرَهَمَّ
To become aged or to totter because of old age.
A derived verbal usage concerning the effects of advanced age.
- Lane · entry 625
اِدْرَهَمَّ
Of sight, to become dim or obscure.
The construction takes sight as the subject.
- Lane · entry 625
مُدَرْهَم
A person possessing many dirhams; a wealthy person in coin.
A nominal descriptor; the evidence explicitly states that it has no corresponding verb.
- Lane · entry 631
مُدْرَهِمّ
An aged person tottering because of old age.
A nominal description of one whose movement is impaired by age.
- Lane · entry 632
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
No Maqayis entry was supplied, so no separate native root principle is asserted.
The Quranic form is plural, while the public headword is normalized to the singular Classical Arabic citation form دِرْهَم.