Quranic root
فرد
f · r · d
The root centers on singleness: being one, separate, or without a counterpart.
From the basic idea of unity and non-pairing, the lexicon develops meanings of being alone, set apart, individually distinguished, unequalled, and separated from others.
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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.
فَرْد
fard
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 5 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.
Single, alone, or solitary; without another joined with or accompanying it.
In the Quran, this describes a person or entity left without a companion, counterpart, or associated partner.
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Selected Quran examples
Individually; as separate individuals, one by one.
Used in the plural-like expression فُرَادَىٰ for people appearing or being considered separately, including in contrast with pairs or groups.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 6:94word 3
“alone”
Quran 34:46word 9
“and (as) individuals”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 6:94فُرَٰدَىٰalone
- 19:80فَرْدًۭاalone
- 19:95فَرْدًاalone
- 21:89فَرْدًۭاalone
- 34:46وَفُرَٰدَىٰand (as) individuals
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 34 Classical meanings
تَفْرِيد
Devotion to the study and observance of religious law while withdrawing from the rest of humanity.
A Form II verbal noun associated with dedicated religious practice and retreat from worldly company.
- Lane · entry 33704
أَفْرَدَ
To cause a female to bring forth one offspring only.
Explicitly used of a female, including a pregnant female, ewe, she-goat, or woman, in opposition to bearing twins.
- Lane · entry 33705
أَفْرَدَ
To make a person or thing single, sole, or one only.
A causative Form IV use.
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أَفْرَدَ
To put apart or separate, or to reserve something exclusively for one person without a share for others.
The construction may take مِنْ to express separation from another, or بِـ to express exclusive allocation.
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أَفْرَدَ
To perform the pilgrimage rites separately from the rites of the minor pilgrimage.
A conventional pilgrimage construction: أَفْرَدَ الحجَّ عن العمرةِ.
- Lane · entry 33705
أَفْرَدَ
To send a messenger separately to someone.
Occurs with إِلَيْهِ in the cited construction.
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اِنْفَرَدَ
To be or become alone, apart, or independent of others, without anyone sharing in an affair, possession, or opinion; also, to be alone with someone.
An intransitive Form VII use with constructions such as بِنَفْسِهِ, عَنْهُ, بِفُلَانٍ, بِالأَمْرِ, or بِالمَالِ.
- Lane · entry 33707
اِنْفَرَدَ
To die, figuratively described as a bodily part becoming separated from the body.
An assumed-tropical idiom in which separation of the neck from the body represents death.
- Lane · entry 33707
اِسْتَفْرَدَ
To find a person or thing alone, with no second alongside it.
A Form X use of discovering someone or something isolated from its companions.
- Lane · entry 33708
اِسْتَفْرَدَ
To take or select something alone, by itself, or out from among accompanying things.
A Form X use expressing isolation or selection from a set.
- Lane · entry 33708
فَرْد
Without equal or like; unmatched or unequalled.
May qualify God as the One without counterpart, or an object such as a sword as unequalled in excellence.
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فَرْد
Apart, separate, unconnected, or unmixed with others.
A broader Classical use for persons, animals, plants, or things existing separately from their group or kind.
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فَرْد
One member or half of a pair or couple.
A specialized nominal use referring to one of two paired members.
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فَرْد
Alone together with another person, apart from the rest.
The dual expression فَرْدَيْنِ describes two people encountered without others present.
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فَرْد
A bright star or group of stars standing apart from surrounding stars.
An astronomical and traditional star-name usage, including stars around the Pleiades or near Ḥaḍār.
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فَرْد
One side of the jaw.
An anatomical noun with the plural أَفْرَاد.
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فَرْد
A sandal with a single sole, not patched or doubled with a second sole.
A specialized description of sandal construction.
- Lane · entry 33709
فَرْد
A bull, apparently a wild bull.
A separately attested animal-name use.
- Lane · entry 33709
أَفْرَاد
In lexicology, material transmitted by only one lexicologist.
A technical term distinguished from material reported by only one Arab informant.
- Lane · entry 33709
فُرَدَة
A person who goes away alone after leaving companions.
A personal noun for one departing separately from a group.
- Lane · entry 33712
فُرْدَات
Hills or similar elevations, especially isolated mounds.
A specialized plural noun for formations described as آكَام.
- Lane · entry 33713
فَرِيد
A pearl or precious, highly valued gem; specifically, a bead that separates other beads or pieces of gold in a necklace.
The lexical association is with something precious and exceptional, or with a pearl set apart among other elements.
- Lane · entry 33719
فَرِيد
A vertebra in the intermediate or projecting part of a horse's back.
A technical anatomical term for the vertebral region between the dorsal and lumbar areas.
- Lane · entry 33719
فَرَّاد
One who sells or makes فَرِيد, namely beads or separated necklace elements.
An occupational noun derived from the specialized pearl-and-necklace sense.
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فَارِد
Of sugar: of the finest and whitest kind.
A specialized adjectival use in the expression سُكَّرٌ فَارِدٌ.
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فَارِد
Of she-camels: not resembling, or possibly not desired by, the stallions.
The source records a textual reading uncertainty: the transmitted explanation gives عدم resemblance, while a proposed correction yields عدم desire.
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مُفْرَد
A single or simple word whose parts do not each express a corresponding part of its meaning.
A conventional term in grammar and lexicology.
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مُفْرَد
A simple medicinal substance, used without being compounded with another.
A technical medical use, especially in the plural مُفْرَدَاتُ الطِّبِّ.
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مُفْرَد
A wild bull.
A specialized animal-name use of the active-participial form.
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مُفْرِد
A female that gives birth to one offspring only.
Explicitly used of a female, pregnant female, ewe, she-goat, or woman, in opposition to one bearing twins.
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مُفَرَّد
Of pieces of gold in a necklace: separated from one another by pearls or other فَرِيد elements.
A passive-participial description of divided necklace components.
- Lane · entry 33729
مُفَرِّد
A rider who has no other person with him, or who has only his camel with him.
A specialized description of a solitary traveler.
- Lane · entry 33730
مُفَرِّد
One who withdraws from people to devote himself to religious observance, or one devoted to frequent remembrance and praise of God.
In a transmitted religious expression, the term is also explained as referring to those who remain devoted to God's praise after their contemporaries have died.
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المَفَارِيد
In lexicology, expressions uttered by only one Arab informant.
A technical term distinguished from أَفْرَاد, which concerns transmission by only one leading lexicologist.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The specialized فَارِد description of she-camels preserves a source-reported reading uncertainty: the transmitted explanation concerns resemblance to stallions, while a proposed correction concerns whether stallions desire them.