Quranic root
همد
h · m · d
The root centers on the extinguishing or loss of vitality of something.
This orientation extends from a fire going out to barren earth, dried vegetation, death, silence, and worn-out matter. The lexical record also preserves divergent Form IV uses involving remaining still and hastening.
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- Mufradāt · row 1530
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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.
هَامِدٌ
hāmidun
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
Barren land, devoid of vegetation.
Used adjectivally of the earth or land; the Quranic occurrence is the feminine form هَامِدَةً.
- Lane · entry 10628
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 22:5word 58
“barren”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 22:5هَامِدَةًۭbarren
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 25 Classical meanings
هَمَدَ
Of a fire, to become completely extinguished, with no fire remaining; to lose its heat.
Said of a fire that has gone out entirely, as opposed to one whose flame alone has ceased.
- Lane · entry 10623
هَمَدَ
To die, become extinct, or perish; also, to nearly perish from hunger.
A figurative use applied to living beings or to one in extreme hunger.
- Lane · entry 10623
هَمَدَ
Of a garment or piece of cloth, to become disintegrated and worn out.
Describes deterioration caused by being long folded, so that the material falls to pieces when touched.
- Lane · entry 10623
هَمَدَ
Of the wind, to become still.
A figurative or extended use.
- Lane · entry 10623
هَمَدَ
Of land, to become lifeless and barren, without herbage, wood, or rain.
Describes the condition of land after its vegetation and vitality have disappeared.
- Lane · entry 10623
هَمَدَ
Of the trees of a land, to become worn out, wasted, and perish.
A figurative use describing the deterioration or destruction of trees.
- Lane · entry 10623
هَمَدَ
Of voices, to become silent.
A figurative use for the cessation of voices.
- Lane · entry 10623
أَهْمَدَ
To still or quiet something.
A Form IV causative use.
- Lane · entry 10624
أَهْمَدَ
To kill or destroy a person or persons.
A Form IV transitive use applied to human beings in the cited lexical evidence.
- Lane · entry 10624
أَهْمَدَ
To put an end to an affair.
Used with an affair or matter as the object.
- Lane · entry 10624
أَهْمَدَ
Of drought, to render land sterile, leaving only dried and broken herbage.
The drought is the agent causing the land's sterility.
- Lane · entry 10624
أَهْمَدَ
To remain, stay, or dwell in a place; to be still and not move.
An intransitive use describing continued residence or immobility.
- Lane · entry 10624
أَهْمَدَ
To keep silent in an unpleasant situation.
A figurative or extended use concerning silence.
- Lane · entry 10624
أَهْمَدَ
To hasten or move quickly.
A reported divergent Form IV use; it is also attested of a dog running.
- Lane · entry 10624
أَهْمَدَ
To fall to eating food.
Occurs in the conventional expression أَهْمَدُوا فِي الطَّعَامِ.
- Lane · entry 10624
هَمْدَةٌ
A state of apoplexy.
A medical or physiological noun; the evidence equates it with سَكْتَةٌ.
- Lane · entry 10626
هَمْدَةٌ
A trance.
A noun for a trance or suspended state of consciousness.
- Lane · entry 10626
- Lane · entry 17169
هَمِيدٌ
Dead sheep or goats.
A specialized noun for livestock that has died.
- Lane · entry 10627
هَمِيدٌ
Livestock or other property recorded in government accounts as due from a person.
A technical administrative or fiscal use.
- Lane · entry 10627
هَامِدٌ
Dead or extinct; in a state of death or extinction.
An adjectival description of something that has lost life or ceased to exist.
- Lane · entry 10628
هَامِدٌ
Old, worn-out, wasted, or deteriorated, including something blackened and changed for the worse.
Applied to cloth or other things that have deteriorated through age or damage.
- Lane · entry 10628
هَامِدٌ
Of a tree or herbage, blackened, wasted, or dried up.
An adjectival use for deteriorated vegetation.
- Lane · entry 10628
هَامِدٌ
Of fruit, black and stinking.
A specialized adjectival use describing spoiled fruit.
- Lane · entry 10628
هَامِدٌ
A date that has just ripened and is thick-skinned and yellow.
A specialized noun or adjectival use for a date at this stage of ripeness.
- Lane · entry 10628
هَامِدٌ
Of ashes, extinguished or wasted, compacted together, and changed in appearance.
Occurs in the expression رَمَادٌ هَامِدٌ.
- Lane · entry 10628
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic form هَامِدَةً is normalized to the masculine active-participle citation form هَامِدٌ; it is not a finite Form I verb.