Quranic root
هدد
h · d · d
The root centers on breaking, crushing, and demolition, with related uses involving weakening, collapse, and sounds produced by violent impact or movement.
The basic image is forceful breaking or bringing down; from it develop physical demolition, human weakening, falling and subsidence, and several lexicalized sound expressions. Other branches concern threats, praise, and reduplicative vocal or rocking actions.
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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.
هَدٌّ
haddun
- Part of speech
- Noun
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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 crushing, violent demolition or collapse, with the impact of something heavy falling.
In مريم 19:90, هَدًّا describes the earth splitting and the mountains crashing down; the construction emphasizes destructive collapse and its heavy impact.
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- Lane · entry 10250
Selected Quran examples
Quran 19:90word 9
“(in) devastation”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 19:90هَدًّا(in) devastation
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 26 Classical meanings
هَدَّ
To distress, break, or crush a person's composure; of a calamity, to debilitate or enervate someone.
Used of emotional or personal weakening rather than the physical demolition covered by هَدٌّ in the Quranic occurrence.
- Lane · entry 10250
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هَدَّ
To become weak in body, extremely aged, or decrepit.
A verbal use describing a person's physical weakening or advanced age.
- Lane · entry 10250
هَدَّ
To produce a loud, violent, or murmuring sound, including the sound of a falling wall or mountain, falling rain, the sea, or a camel's braying.
The sound may be associated with falling, weather, the sea, or animal vocalization; these are sound uses rather than separate physical-demolition meanings.
- Lane · entry 10250
هَدَّ
In a fixed predicative or exclamatory expression, to express outstanding excellence, hardiness, strength, or wonder.
Especially in constructions such as هَدَّكَ مِنْ رَجُلٍ, used as praise or an expression of admiration; the expression has dialectal variation in its grammatical analysis.
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هَدَّدَ
To threaten someone, especially with punishment; to frighten or terrify him.
The Form V entry تَهَدَّدَ is cross-referred to this threat meaning.
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هَدَّدَ
To make a cow fall for slaughter.
A specialized transitive construction concerning bringing the animal down before slaughter.
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اِنْهَدَّ
To fall down or become demolished suddenly, with a vehement noise; of a mountain, to break down.
This is the intransitive or middle collapse construction corresponding to physical demolition.
- Lane · entry 10253
اِسْتَهَدَّهُ
To regard someone as weak.
A Form X evaluative construction describing the speaker's assessment of another person's weakness.
- Lane · entry 10254
هَدْهَدَ
To coo or make a murmuring, confused sound; of a camel, to bray.
Used of birds, especially pigeons, and of camels; the reduplicative form emphasizes vocal sound.
- Lane · entry 10255
هَدْهَدَ
To rock or gently move a child in a cradle so that the child sleeps.
A causative domestic action directed toward settling a child.
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هَدْهَدَ
To send or throw something down from a high place to a lower one.
A transitive motion construction distinct from the vocal and child-rocking uses of هَدْهَدَ.
- Lane · entry 10255
هَدٌّ
A weak or cowardly man; by extension, a weak or cowardly people.
This nominal use concerns weakness or lack of courage, not the physical demolition sense.
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هَدٌّ
Extreme old age or decrepitude.
A nominal designation of advanced physical deterioration.
- Lane · entry 10256
هَدٌّ
A cough or harsh sound; also the braying of a camel.
A nominal sound term, including a harsh human sound and an animal call.
- Lane · entry 10256
هَدٌّ
A generous, liberal, beautiful, or strong man.
An adjectival or nominal praise term, distinct from the fixed exclamatory construction هَدَّكَ.
- Lane · entry 10256
هِدٌّ
A thing or person that has been felled or brought down; figuratively, a weak or cowardly person.
The passive-result sense is compared with a slaughtered animal and is distinct in vocalization from هَدٌّ.
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هَدَّةٌ
The sound of a wall or part of a mountain falling, or the sound of rain falling from the sky.
A noun naming the impact-sound associated with a fall or with rain.
- Lane · entry 10258
هَدَّةٌ
A sinking or falling-in of the ground.
A nominal result of collapse, distinct from the sound named by هَدَّةٌ in related usage.
- Lane · entry 10258
هَدْهَدَةٌ
The murmuring or confused sound of pigeons cooing or a camel braying; also a similar rumbling sound.
A verbal noun used substantivally for repeated or indistinct vocal noise, with thunder included in some usage.
- Lane · entry 10261
هَدْهَدٌ
The voices or cries of jinn.
A collective expression reported without a singular form.
- Lane · entry 10259
هُدْهُدٌ
The hoopoe; more broadly, a bird that cooes, including certain cooing pigeons.
The bird is traditionally identified with the bird mentioned in النمل 27:20, but that form is not a supplied QAC form group for this root artifact.
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هُدَاهِدٌ
A stallion camel that brays repeatedly among the she-camels but does not cover them.
A specialized camel term, distinct from the general bird and vocal-noise terms.
- Lane · entry 10263
هَدِيدٌ
A voice, cry, sound, or noise.
A general sound noun without the specific falling, sea, or thunder restriction of related terms.
- Lane · entry 10264
هَدِيدٌ
A threat delivered from behind someone.
A specialized conventional use of the sound/threat noun.
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هَادٌّ
A murmuring sound coming from the sea toward the shore, sometimes associated with an earthquake.
A specialized coastal sound term.
- Lane · entry 10265
هَادَّةٌ
Thunder.
A lexicalized feminine noun for thunder, with examples describing the absence of thunder during a year.
- Lane · entry 10266
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied QAC evidence contains only the Quranic nominal هَدًّا at 19:90; related lexical items such as هُدْهُدٌ are retained as Classical evidence but are not counted as additional Quranic form groups here.