Quranic root
جذذ
j · dh · dh
The root has a central orientation of breaking apart or cutting off.
From this orientation develop verbs for cutting, breaking, and severing; nouns for fragments and separated portions; and specialized terms for broken grain, gold-bearing stones, and severed bodily or relational states.
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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.
جُذَاذ
judhādh
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
Broken fragments or pieces.
In 21:58, it describes the idols after they have been broken into pieces; the noun denotes the resulting fragments rather than the act of breaking.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 21:58word 2
“(into) pieces”
مَجْذُوذ
majdhūdh
- Part of speech
- Passive 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.
Cut off or interrupted.
In 11:108, it occurs in the negative expression عَطَاءٌ غَيْرُ مَجْذُوذٍ, describing a gift or stipend that is not cut short or interrupted.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 11:108word 18
“interrupted”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
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Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 16 Classical meanings
جَذَّ
To cut or cut off a thing, especially utterly or quickly; to cut the fruit from palm trees.
The cutting may be intensive, repeated, or extensive. In a figurative battle expression, cutting people off utterly means exterminating them by slaughter.
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جَذَّ
To break a thing.
The object may be a thing generally, including a hard thing.
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جَذَّ
To hasten something or to hasten to it.
This is an additional Form I use attested in a proverb.
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اِنْجَذَّ
To become cut or cut off, utterly or quickly.
Form VII has an intransitive or passive-like construction and may describe something becoming severed.
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جَذٌّ
A piece broken off; a fragment.
The plural is used for pieces or fragments.
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جُذَّةٌ
A piece of rag or clothing; anything serving as a garment or covering.
The word may refer to any piece of clothing used to cover the body.
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جَذَاذٌ
The act of separating one thing from another.
An alternative transmitted gloss as “superiority” is reported in the evidence as probably a mistranscription.
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جُذَاذٌ
Small pieces or particles of silver; silver cuttings or clippings.
This is a specialized noun for silver in broken or cut pieces.
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جُذَاذٌ
Stones containing gold or other valuable material.
The designation is explained by the stones being broken or crushed.
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جُذَاذٌ
Distinct parties, portions, or divisions of people or things.
This is a collective or plural-like use for separated portions.
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جَذِيذٌ
Cut, cut off, or broken.
The description may include being cut off utterly or quickly, as well as being broken.
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جَذِيذٌ
A preparation of parched barley or wheat broken into coarse particles and made into a drinkable food; also a portion of such food consumed at one time.
The name is connected with the grain being broken into coarse particles.
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جَذَّاءُ
Amputated, specifically of an arm or hand.
It is also used figuratively in this sense.
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جَذَّاءُ
Severed or not closely maintained, of a bond of relationship.
The expression describes a relationship not joined or sustained by affection.
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جَذَّاءُ
Much broken or broken into pieces, of a tooth.
This is an anatomical descriptive use.
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جَذَّانٌ
Soft stones.
An alternate vocalization is also transmitted for the same lexical item.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
A transmitted alternative gloss for جَذَاذٌ as “superiority” is identified in the evidence as probably a mistranscription and is not treated as an independent lexical meaning.