Quranic root
فند
f · n · d
The root conveys heaviness, force, and substantial mass, with things or parts bearing upon one another. Its lexical branches include a mountain mass or spur, burdensome censure, impaired judgment, and falsehood.
The physical image of a mountain portion or peak develops into senses of weight or severity in reproach, mental impairment associated especially with extreme age, and falsehood—possibly because the liar is blamed or bears a heavy sin. These root-level relations are not automatically meanings of every derivative.
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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.
فَنَّدَ
fannada
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
- II
- 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 attribute weakness or unsoundness of judgment to someone; to deem someone mentally impaired.
In لَوْلَا أَنْ تُفَنِّدُونِ (Quran 12:94), the construction describes treating the speaker as weak-minded. The verse is also interpreted contextually as “blame or reproach me,” but that is treated here as an interpretation of the same construction rather than a separate basic sense.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:94word 12
“you think me weakened in mind”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 12:94تُفَنِّدُونِyou think me weakened in mind
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 28 Classical meanings
فَنِدَ
To lie, utter a falsehood, or say what is untrue.
Identified as the primary signification of the Form I verb.
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فَنِدَ
To err or make repeated mistakes in speech, judgment, or opinion; to become weak or unsound in mind, or to become extremely aged.
The usage is especially associated with extreme old age, though it is also reported without that restriction and may be associated with disease. The aging sense is linked to confused or perverted speech.
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فَنِدَ
To be or become impotent and unthankful for divine favor.
An additionally reported usage, marked as tentative in the lexical evidence.
- Lane · entry 35031
فَنَّدَ
To pronounce someone a liar, accuse him of falsehood, or declare his speech untrue.
A transitive Form II usage distinct from attributing weakness of judgment.
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فَنَّدَ
To pronounce a person or his judgment weak, impotent, or lacking in ability.
The judgment-related portion overlaps the Quran-attested weakness-of-judgment construction; the declaration of impotence or lack of ability is retained here as a broader Classical usage.
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فَنَّدَ
To acquire or secure a horse, especially for frontier watch, protection, or refuge; also, according to one usage, to make a horse lean for military service.
This is a specialized horse-related construction, with differing lexical explanations reported for its precise application.
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فَنَّدَ
To desire that someone perform an affair.
Used in the construction فَنَّدَ فُلَانًا عَلَى الأَمْرِ or فِي الأَمْرِ.
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فَنَّدَ
To persist constantly or perseveringly in drinking beverage or wine.
Used with فِي الشَّرَابِ.
- Lane · entry 35032
فَنَّدَ
To sit upon a mountain spur or peak.
Used with a فِنْد, meaning a projecting part or peak of a mountain.
- Lane · entry 35032
أَفْنَدَ
To charge someone with error in judgment or opinion.
A transitive Form IV usage.
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أَفْنَدَ
To render someone weak in judgment, unsound in mind, or deficient in understanding.
Especially attributed to extreme old age, which may leave a person with little understanding, figuratively like a stone.
- Lane · entry 35034
تَفَنَّدَ
To repent of something.
Used with مِنْهُ to indicate the thing repented of.
- Lane · entry 35035
اُفْتُنِدَ
To be caused to perish through extreme old age.
A passive Form VIII usage.
- Lane · entry 35036
فِنْدٌ
A great mountain, an isolated mountain, or a substantial portion, peak, spur, or side of a mountain.
The term may refer broadly to a mountain mass or more specifically to a projecting or elevated part of one; its plural is أَفْنَادٌ.
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فِنْدٌ
A portion or component of the night.
Used in the plural expression أَفْنَادُ اللَّيْلِ.
- Lane · entry 35038
فِنْدٌ
A party or company of people; in the plural, separate or scattered companies.
The plural أَفْنَادٌ is used for groups proceeding one after another or separately.
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فِنْدٌ
Those characterized by impotence and ingratitude for divine favor.
A reported alternative interpretation of a transmitted expression, distinct from the sense “companies” or “parties.”
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فِنْدٌ
A sort or species; a distinct kind or variety.
Its plural may describe people or things arriving as diverse sorts.
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فِنْدٌ
A branch of a tree.
A nominal botanical usage.
- Lane · entry 35038
فِنْدٌ
Land upon which rain has not fallen.
An associated adjectival form is also reported, but the directly attested lexical item here is فِنْدٌ.
- Lane · entry 35038
فَنَدٌ
Exorbitance or impropriety in speech, and error in judgment.
A substantive use of the verbal noun, distinct as a noun from the Form I verb.
- Lane · entry 35039
فِنْدَةٌ
A complete branch from which a bow is made.
A specialized noun for a suitably formed branch.
- Lane · entry 35040
فِنْدَأْوَةٌ
A sharp adze.
The spelling without hamza is also reported.
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فِنْدَأْوَةٌ
A bold or fearless she-camel.
A separate lexical usage from the tool sense.
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فِنْدَأْيَةٌ
An adze, axe, or hoe, especially one with a broad head.
Its plural فَنَادِيدُ is reported as anomalous.
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فَانِيدٌ
A type of sweetmeat made from concentrated sugar-cane juice and starch.
The item is identified as an Arabicized foreign word and is retained as a lexical entry listed under this spelling, not as a necessarily root-derived formation.
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مُفْنِدٌ
A man whose intellect or judgment is weak or unsound, especially through extreme old age or disease; also one who confuses things in speech or talks excessively because of mental unsoundness.
The term may describe weakness of intellect, judgment, or body separately, so bodily weakness does not necessarily imply faulty judgment. The lexical evidence explicitly applies this epithet to a man and not to an old woman.
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مُفَنَّدٌ
One regarded as weak in judgment or intellect, unsound in mind, or confused in speech.
The term is discussed as a counterpart of مُفْنِدٌ and may also describe extreme age or mental unsoundness; the source treats its application and nuances alongside that epithet.
- Lane · entry 35045
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The sole Quran occurrence is an imperfect active Form II form; the public headword is normalized to the perfect-tense citation form فَنَّدَ. Broader Classical meanings listed below should not be read into that occurrence unless explicitly identified in its Quranic sense.