Quranic root
هدم
h · d · m
The root centers on bringing a built thing down from its standing state: demolishing, dismantling, or collapsing a structure.
The core image extends to things reduced to ruin or forfeited, with related nominal uses for a worn-out garment, wasted blood, and earth excavated from a pit or well. These extensions are not all Quranic.
- Maqāyīs · row 4853
- Mufradāt · row 1514
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
هَدَّمَ
haddama
- 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 demolish or destroy a building or other structure; in the attested passive construction, to be demolished.
The Quran occurrence is a passive perfect Form II verb with a structure as the affected object. Form II may convey intensified or thorough demolition in this construction.
- Mufradāt · row 1514
- Lane · entry 17065
Selected Quran examples
Quran 22:40word 18
“surely (would) have been demolished”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 22:40لَّهُدِّمَتْsurely (would) have been demolished
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 5 Classical meanings
تَهَادَمَ
To fall into ruin or collapse by degrees.
An intransitive construction used of structures that progressively fall apart.
- Lane · entry 17066
اِنْهَدَمَ
To collapse, fall to pieces, or become a ruin.
An intransitive construction; it can describe a structure falling from its place without being actively pulled to pieces.
- Lane · entry 17067
هَدَمٌ
Earth dug out from a pit or well.
- Lane · entry 17069
هَدْمٌ
Blood regarded as wasted or left unavenged.
A nominal use in the expression دم هَدْمٌ.
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هِدْمٌ
A worn-out or tattered garment.
The noun is used in this specialized nominal sense, with the plural أهدام reported in the lexical evidence.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic occurrence is a passive Form II form; the Form VI and Form VII entries are separate Classical intransitive constructions.