Quranic root
فأد
f · ʾ · d
The root centers on intense heat and burning, extending to striking or affecting the heart and to baking or roasting.
The heat principle appears in roasting and baking, in the heart as marked by ardour or inner heat, and in derived terms for blazing, roasting implements, and places prepared for roasting.
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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.
فُؤَاد
fuʾād
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 16 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.
Heart; the inner heart as the seat of feeling, perception, inclination, and spiritual response.
The Quran uses the singular فُؤَاد and the plural أَفْئِدَة for the heart understood as both a bodily and inward faculty. The emphasis on inner heat or ardour may account for the choice of this word alongside قَلْب.
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Selected Quran examples
Mind or intellect—the faculty that recognizes and affirms what is perceived.
This interpretation is especially associated with the Quranic expression مَا كَذَبَ الْفُؤَادُ مَا رَأَى in 53:11, where the فُؤَاد is understood as not denying or deeming improbable what was seen.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 53:11word 3
“the heart”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 6:110أَفْـِٔدَتَهُمْtheir hearts
- 6:113أَفْـِٔدَةُhearts
- 11:120فُؤَادَكَ ۚyour heart
- 14:37أَفْـِٔدَةًۭhearts
- 14:43وَأَفْـِٔدَتُهُمْand their hearts
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 16 Classical meanings
فَأَدَ
To strike, smite, or injure someone or an animal in the heart.
A Form I verb governing the affected person or animal and the heart in which the blow is received.
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فَأَدَ
To afflict or affect the heart with disease, pain, or fear; of fear, to make a person cowardly.
Includes the use of disease or fear as the agent affecting the heart, as well as the corresponding passive descriptions of being afflicted in the heart.
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فَأَدَ
To bake bread or dough in hot ashes, and to roast meat in fire or on live coals.
The object may be bread, a lump of dough, or flesh-meat; the cooking medium is hot ashes, fire, or live coals.
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فَأَدَ
To prepare a place in hot ashes or fire for a bread-cake or lump of dough to bake.
A construction describing the preparation of the baking place rather than the baking itself.
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فَأَدَ
To act well or kindly toward someone in that person's affair, in the person's absence.
A conventional idiomatic use reported in the Form I verb.
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تَفَأَّدَ
To burn fiercely, blaze, or flame; of the heart, to become ardent or excited.
Used of fuel or fire for burning and of the heart for becoming fervent; another transmitted reading gives the related sense of becoming agitated or moved.
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اِفْتَأَدَ
To light a fire for roasting.
The supplied evidence attests the Form VIII verb in the third-person masculine perfect citation form.
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فَئِيدٌ
Baked or roasted on a fire or in hot ashes.
Applied to bread or dough and to flesh-meat; the form functions as a descriptive participial adjective.
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فَئِيدٌ
A fire used for baking or roasting.
A nominal use distinct from the descriptive sense ‘baked’ or ‘roasted’.
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أُفْؤُودٌ
A place made in hot ashes or fire for baking bread or dough.
A dedicated baking hollow or place; its plural is أَفَائِيدُ.
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مِفْأَدٌ
An iron implement for roasting or baking, such as a roasting spit; also a wooden implement for stirring the fire in a tannūr oven.
The lexical item covers roasting and baking equipment and, in another reported use, the implement used to stir the oven fire.
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فُؤَادٌ
In anatomical terminology, the covering, container, middle, or interior of the heart; in another usage, the associated organs around the oesophagus, including the liver and lungs.
These are specialized Classical Arabic anatomical descriptions and are kept distinct from the general Quranic heart sense.
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فُؤَادٌ
Acuteness or spiritedness of mind and temperament; in idiomatic descriptions, courage or a quick, vigorous spirit.
Used in expressions describing a person's mental sharpness or an animal's spiritedness, keenness, and courage.
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مَفْؤُودٌ
Struck, affected, or afflicted in the heart, especially by disease or pain.
A passive participial description of one suffering an ailment or pain located in the heart.
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مَفْؤُودٌ
Heartless, weak-hearted, or cowardly.
A lexical adjective with no corresponding verb in this sense according to the supplied evidence.
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مُفْتَأَدٌ
A place of fuel or a place in which a fire is lit for roasting.
A place prepared for the fire and roasting operation.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic noun is presented under the singular citation form فُؤَاد, with أَفْئِدَة as its attested plural.
The ordinary Quranic sense is ‘heart’; the interpretation ‘mind or intellect’ is tied specifically to the construction in 53:11. Specialized anatomical and idiomatic Classical Arabic uses are listed separately rather than imposed on every Quran occurrence.