Quranic root
جدر
j · d · r
The root centers on a raised wall or boundary and, in a second branch, on something emerging or protruding.
The wall sense extends to foundations, enclosures, dams, and walled gardens; the emergence branch describes vegetation, bodily eruptions, and smallpox. The suitability branch develops through the idea of an endpoint or fitting place.
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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.
أَجْدَرُ
ʾajdaru
- Part of speech
- Adjective · comparative
- 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.
More fitting, apt, suitable, or worthy; hence more likely to do or be something.
Used in comparative constructions with بِـ, لِـ, or أَنْ; the Quranic occurrence expresses greater likelihood or aptitude rather than a physical meaning.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 9:97word 5
“and more likely”
جِدَار
jidār
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 3 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.
A wall; a raised, upright barrier or structure.
In the Quranic usage, جِدَار emphasizes the wall’s projection and elevation, in contrast with حائط, which can emphasize enclosure. The plural form جُدُر is included under this citation form.
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Selected Quran examples
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 4 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 24 Classical meanings
جَدَرَ
To make, build, raise, or found a wall.
A transitive Form I verb used of constructing a wall or enclosure.
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جَدَرَ
To be attacked by smallpox; of smallpox, to break out or come forth.
Used of a person, especially a child, contracting the disease, and of the disease erupting.
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جَدُرَ
To be adapted, apt, suitable, competent, proper, or worthy.
Constructed with بِـ or لِـ for the thing for which someone or something is suited, and with أَنْ for an action.
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جَدَرَهُ
To make or deem someone or something fit, suitable, proper, or worthy.
A transitive causative use applied to a person or thing.
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اِجْتَدَرَ
To raise a building high or construct it firmly and strongly.
A Form VIII building verb, especially of substantial or elevated construction.
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جَنْدَرَ
To retrace obliterated writing so that it becomes distinct, or to renew a faded figured design in cloth.
A specialized Form Q.Q. verb used of restoring legibility or renewing patterned work.
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جَدْر
The foundation or base of a wall; also its side.
The word is also applied specifically to the ḥaṭīm of the Kaaba in one traditional usage because part of the original foundation is present there.
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جَدْر
A fence or dam made to retain or confine water.
May refer to a branch-built water barrier or to fences between houses that retain water.
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جُدُور
Walled gardens, especially gardens of grapevines.
A plural usage referring to enclosed cultivated plots.
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جُدَرِيّ
Smallpox, a disease producing fluid-filled pustules that later open and form thick matter.
A conventional disease name; the related verb describes the eruption of its pustules.
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جُدَرِيّ الأَرْض
Truffles, in an expression of disapproval.
A figurative or transferred appellation recorded in traditional usage.
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جَدِير
A place enclosed by a wall; a walled place.
A nominal use distinct from the adjective meaning suitable or worthy.
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جَدِير
Adapted, apt, suitable, proper, or worthy; naturally drawn toward something.
Used with بِـ, لِـ, or أَنْ for the object or action concerned; this is the positive adjective corresponding to the comparative Quranic form أَجْدَرُ.
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جَدِيرَة
An enclosure for camels, young livestock, sheep, or goats, especially one made of masses of stone.
A livestock enclosure; the materials and animals named are conventional applications in the lexical evidence.
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جَدِيرَة
Nature, natural disposition, temperament, or an inherent property.
An abstract noun for an innate character or disposition.
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مَجْدَرَة
Land in which smallpox is present or abundant.
An attributive description of land associated with the disease.
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مُجَدَّر
Having smallpox or being marked by smallpox, especially with a pockmarked face.
A passive participial adjective describing a person or a bodily appearance.
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جَدَر
Newly emerging vegetation or growth protruding from the ground.
A noun for plant growth as it appears above the earth.
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أَجْدَرَ
Of land, to put forth emerging vegetation.
A Form IV use describing the land’s production of such growth.
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جَدَرَة
A single shoot or piece of vegetation emerging from the ground.
The singular designation for the emergent plant growth called جَدَر.
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جَدَرَة
A swelling or lump appearing on the body.
The related adjective جَدْرَاء may describe a sheep affected by the corresponding skin condition; this usage is distinguished from ordinary smallpox terminology in some lexical reports.
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جَيْدَر
A short person.
A figurative or humorous derivative associated with the wall sense.
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جَدِير
An endpoint or terminus, conceived as the point to which a matter comes.
An abstract extension explained through the image of something reaching a wall or limit.
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جَدْر
A raised mark or swelling caused by biting, especially at an animal’s neck.
A specialized bodily mark explained through the protruding appearance of the swelling.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
أَجْدَرُ is presented as a comparative adjective because its lexical construction is one of comparative aptitude or worthiness, although QAC assigns it a nominal tag.
The plural Quranic form جُدُر is grouped with جِدَار under the singular dictionary citation form.