Quranic root
دور
d · w · r
The root centers on enclosing or surrounding something from all around it, and hence on circular movement, turning, circulation, and what comes around or encompasses.
From the basic idea of surrounding arise movement in a circle, recurrence and circulation, circumferential forms, adverse circumstances that envelop people, and places or communities understood as a dwelling or bounded domain.
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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.
دَارَ
dāra
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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 turn, revolve, or move around; to circle.
Quranic Form I imperfect usage describing circular or revolving movement.
- Lane · entry 1564
Selected Quran examples
Quran 33:19word 9
“revolving”
أَدَارَ
ʾadāra
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- 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 circulate or pass something back and forth between people; to give and take it from hand to hand.
In the Quranic commercial construction, the merchandise is present and exchanged between the parties without deferral.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:282word 101
“you carry out”
دَائِرَةٌ
dāʾirahun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 4 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.
A turn of fortune, especially an adverse turn, calamity, or misfortune that overtakes and envelops people.
The Quranic expressions دائرة السوء and الدوائر refer to harmful circumstances or reversals of fortune; the plural form denotes such turns collectively.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:52word 12
“a misfortune”
Quran 9:98word 10
“the turns (of misfortune)”
Quran 48:6word 11
“(is) a turn”
دَارٌ
dārun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 48 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.
A house, home, or place of residence; a dwelling or group of dwellings.
Includes Quranic singular and plural forms, including دِيَار, when referring to people's houses or inhabited residences.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:84word 11
“your homes”
An abode, domain, or established dwelling-place, including a worldly or hereafter realm.
Used in Quranic expressions such as the abode of this world, the Hereafter, peace, or the transgressors; the meaning is determined by the accompanying qualifier and context.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 6:127word 2
“(will be) home”
دَيَّارٌ
dayyārun
- 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.
An inhabitant or resident; a person dwelling in a place.
The Quranic occurrence appears in a negative construction meaning that no inhabitant or resident is to be left.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 71:26word 10
“(as) an inhabitant”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:84دِيَـٰرِكُمْyour homes
- 2:85دِيَـٰرِهِمْtheir homes
- 2:94ٱلدَّارُthe home
- 2:243دِيَـٰرِهِمْtheir homes
- 2:246دِيَـٰرِنَاour homes
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 60 Classical meanings
دَارَ
To circulate or go around among people or objects.
Includes things passed around from one person to another.
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دَارَ
Of a celestial sphere or firmament, to revolve in its orbit or about its axis.
A specialized application of circular movement to the heavens.
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دَارَ
To reason in a circle, with propositions depending circularly upon one another.
A figurative technical use.
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دَارَ
For days, time, fortune, or an event to come round, recur, or come about.
Used of temporal cycles and changing circumstances.
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دَارَ
To seem to turn around a person suffering vertigo or giddiness.
Used with the relevant preposition of the ground, sea, or surrounding scene.
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دَارَ
To comprehend, encompass, or have something within one's power, compass, or care.
A figurative extension of surrounding; it may describe authority over people or control of an affair.
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دَارَ
To court, dally with, or hold amorous converse with someone under one's power or care.
A specialized figurative construction involving an amorous relation.
- Lane · entry 1564
دَوَّرَ
To make something round, circular, or spherical.
Form II causative use.
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دَوَّرَ
To turn thoughts or opinions over in the mind concerning an affair.
A figurative Form II use.
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دَاوَرَ
To go round about with someone or accompany someone in circular movement.
Equivalent to going round with the person concerned.
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دَاوَرَ
To circumvent someone or seek to outmaneuver game by attending to its movements and sounds.
The hunting use describes skill in tracking and circumventing prey.
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دَاوَرَ
To try to turn or incline someone toward or away from an affair, sometimes by deceit or guile.
The construction may take عن for turning someone away or على for turning someone toward something.
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دَاوَرَ
To work at, manage, or seek the methods of carrying out affairs.
The verbal noun denotes sustained exertion in handling or accomplishing affairs.
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أَدَارَ
To make someone or something go, move, turn, circle, or return around; to wind or stir something around.
Examples include winding a turban around the head and stirring saffron in water.
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أَدَارَ
To cause someone to experience vertigo or giddiness.
The passive and prepositional constructions describe being made to turn or being affected by vertigo.
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أَدَارَ
To endeavor to induce someone to do something or to leave it.
The construction may express turning someone toward an affair or away from it.
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تَدَيَّرَ
To take a place as a house or abode.
The Form V verb applies to settling in or treating a place as a dwelling.
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اِسْتَدَارَ
To become or assume a round or circular form; to become coiled or full.
Used, for example, of the moon becoming full or a thing winding around another.
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دَارٌ
A burial-ground.
A derived application of دار to a place where people are laid to rest.
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دَارٌ
A country, district, city, town, or village considered as an inhabited domain.
A broader territorial use distinct from the concrete house or dwelling.
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الدَّارُ
The City of the Prophet, Medina, when used with the definite article.
A conventional proper-name use.
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دَارٌ
A tribe or people understood as the inhabitants of one house or domain.
A figurative collective use, as in the tribe of a named family.
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دَوْرٌ
The circumference of a circle.
A nominal derivative referring to the extent of circular movement.
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دَوْرٌ
A turn or twist of a turban, rope, or similar elongated object.
Refers to one winding or revolution in wrapping or twisting.
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دَيْرٌ
A Christian convent or monastery, including a monk's cloister or cell.
A lexicalized place-name branch associated with a monastic dwelling.
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رَأْسُ الدَّيْرِ
The head or chief of a group of companions.
An idiomatic figurative use of the head of a monastery.
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دَارَةٌ
The halo or circular ring around the moon.
A specialized circumferential sense.
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دَارَةٌ
A round space or tract of sand, sometimes with an open space in the middle.
The place may be used as a gathering place where people sit and drink.
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دَارَةٌ
A wide plain or open tract of land enclosed or surrounded by mountains or sands.
The terrain may be soft and level or somewhat rugged, depending on the usage.
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دَارَةٌ
A place surrounded and confined by something.
A general spatial use of enclosure.
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دَارَةٌ
A calamity or misfortune.
A determinate nominal use distinct from the Quranic noun دائرة.
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دَارِيٌّ
A person who remains in his house and scarcely leaves it.
The sense emphasizes staying at home rather than seeking sustenance elsewhere.
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دَارِيٌّ
A possessor of life's blessings, comforts, or conveniences.
A figurative extension of one who remains established in a house.
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دَارِيٌّ
A camel, sheep, or goat that remains at the house or stays behind instead of going to pasture.
Applied to a domestic animal that remains where the others lie down.
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دَارِيٌّ
A sailor responsible for handling the sail.
A specialized occupational use.
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دَارِيٌّ
A seller of perfumes or perfumer.
A conventional attribution associated with Dārīn and its perfume market.
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دَيْرَانِيٌّ
The master or an inhabitant of a convent or monastery.
A relational noun from دَيْرٌ.
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دُوَارٌ
Vertigo or giddiness in the head.
The vocalized noun denotes the condition itself.
- Lane · entry 1582
دُوَارٌ
An idol, stone, or the circular space around it, used for ritual circumambulation; the term was also applied to the Kaaba.
This is a pre-Islamic or conventional cultic use involving circling a sacred object or space.
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دُوَارٌ
A circling tract of sand around which wild animals move.
A landscape term for a circular sandy area.
- Lane · entry 1582
دَوَّارٌ
Turning, circling, or revolving, especially when applied to the firmament.
An intensive adjectival description of circular celestial motion.
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دَوَّارٌ
Turning people repeatedly from one state or condition to another, said of time or fortune.
A figurative description of the recurrent changes imposed by time or fortune.
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دَوَّارَةٌ
A piece of wood turned by water so that it makes a mill turn.
A technical implement sense.
- Lane · entry 1590
دَوَّارَةٌ
A pair of compasses.
A tool named for its circular movement or function.
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دُوَّارَةٌ
A round part or portion of the head.
An anatomical use.
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دُوَّارَةٌ
The coiled or circularly formed intestines or guts of a sheep or goat.
An anatomical and culinary-animal use concerning the belly.
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دُوَّارَةٌ
A round object that moves or turns around.
Contrasted with a similar form used for something round that does not move.
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دَائِرَةٌ
The circuit, compass, ambit, circumference, ring, or round boundary of a thing.
Includes the surrounding parts of the hoof or face and ordinary circular or ring-shaped objects.
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دَائِرَةٌ
The circular or spiral curl of hair on the crown of the head.
A specialized anatomical and idiomatic use.
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دَائِرَةٌ
A naturally curled or spirally arranged feather or patch of hair on a horse.
The term may refer to one of the recognized hair whorls on a horse.
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دَائِرَةٌ
The round depression or protuberance beneath the nose or in the middle of the upper lip.
A precise anatomical use with variant terms for the two locations.
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دَائِرَةٌ
A stake fixed in the middle of a heap of grain around which cattle turn while treading it.
An agricultural implement sense.
- Lane · entry 1593
تَدْوِرَةٌ
A sitting-place or place of assembly.
A specialized nominal use distinct from the circular-land sense referenced elsewhere.
- Lane · entry 1594
مَدَارٌ
The axis or orbital center of the firmament or celestial sphere.
A substantive use of the verbal noun.
- Lane · entry 1595
مَدَارٌ
The point or matter upon which a question or affair turns.
A figurative technical use; plural مدارَات denotes such focal points.
- Lane · entry 1595
مَدُورٌ
A person affected by vertigo or giddiness.
Used in the expression مَدُورٌ بِهِ.
- Lane · entry 1597
مُدَارَةٌ
A rounded, sewn skin bucket used for drawing water.
A technical container sense; a variant interpretation connects the word with managing or passing buckets.
- Lane · entry 1598
مُدَارَةٌ
A garment decorated with various circles.
A textile use.
- Lane · entry 1598
مُدْوَرَةٌ
She-camels around which the herder goes in order to milk them.
A specialized term for animals approached in a circuit during milking.
- Lane · entry 1599
مُدَوَّرٌ؛ مُسْتَدِيرٌ
Round, circular, spherical, or having assumed a rounded form.
The two explicitly cross-referenced adjectival forms describe rounded shape; one example applies the sense to a full moon.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic form دَيَّارٌ is presented with the general lexical sense inhabitant; its Quranic context is a negative construction, while broader Classical usage is not restricted to negation.
دَارٌ encompasses both concrete homes and qualified abodes or domains in Quranic usage; the plural forms دِيَارٌ and دُورٌ are included under the same public noun.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
lane-unit:dwr:1570:g2:main reports a tentative meaning of دَارٌ as 'a year' or 'a long period'; the evidence itself questions the attribution, so it is left unassigned.