Quranic root
كدر
k · d · r
The root centers on lack of clarity or purity, with a distinct secondary branch of rapid, downward, or dispersed movement.
The physical sense of turbidity or dinginess extends metaphorically to troubled life, disturbed feeling, and confused judgment. A separate movement branch describes hastening, pouring down, or falling in dispersal.
- Maqāyīs · row 3948
- Mufradāt · row 1238
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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.
اِنْكَدَرَ
āinkadara
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VII
- Form
- VII
- 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 dart downward; of stars, to fall and become scattered.
In the Quranic occurrence, the subject is the stars; the form describes their downward fall and dispersal in 81:2.
- Lane · entry 27991
- Mufradāt · row 1238
Selected Quran examples
Quran 81:2word 3
“fall, losing their luster”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 81:2ٱنكَدَرَتْfall, losing their luster
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 17 Classical meanings
كَدِرَ
To become turbid, thick, or muddy; to cease to be clear.
Especially used of water or another liquid.
- Lane · entry 27987
كَدِرَ
To become dusky or dingy in colour.
Used of a complexion, a horse, or another object whose colour becomes dusty, dark, or dingy.
- Lane · entry 27987
كَدِرَ
To become troubled, perturbed, or confounded.
Used of life or livelihood, the heart or mind, and an opinion or line of thought.
- Lane · entry 27987
كَدَرَ
To pour out or forth water.
This is a distinct Form I usage reported for the verb.
- Lane · entry 27987
كَدَّرَ
To render water turbid, thick, or muddy.
A causative use applied directly to water.
- Lane · entry 27988
كَدَّرَ
To trouble or perturb; to confound; to sully.
Used of a person's life or affairs, heart or mind, an opinion, or a favour.
- Lane · entry 27988
تَكَادَرَ
For the eye to continue looking at a thing.
Used in the construction describing sustained looking.
- Lane · entry 27990
اِنْكَدَرَ
To pour down upon someone or to approach them in a scattered mass.
Used of an enemy or group of people converging upon someone, with emphasis on dispersed movement.
- Lane · entry 27991
- Mufradāt · row 1238
اِنْكَدَرَ
To hasten or move at a somewhat rapid pace.
Used of a person's movement or running.
- Lane · entry 27991
كَدَرٌ
Handfuls of reaped corn.
A collective noun; the noun of unity is كَدَرَةٌ.
- Lane · entry 27994
كَدِرٌ
Turbid, thick, or muddy.
Applied to water.
- Lane · entry 27995
كَدِرٌ
Troubled or attended with difficulty.
Used of life or livelihood; the same figurative branch is also applied to a perturbed heart or mind.
- Lane · entry 27995
كُدْرَةٌ
Duskiness or dinginess of colour; a hue inclining to black and dust-colour.
A colour quality or shade.
- Lane · entry 27996
كُدْرِيٌّ
A species of the bird called قَطًا.
The designation refers to its dusky or dust-coloured plumage; related forms include كُدَارِيٌّ.
- Lane · entry 27998
كُدَايْرَاءُ
Fresh milk in which dates are steeped, mashed, or macerated.
A food associated with a dusky colour; it is described as being used to fatten women.
- Lane · entry 28001
أَكْدَرُ
Dusky or dingy; having a colour inclining to black and dust-colour.
The feminine is كَدْرَاءُ and the plural is كُدْرٌ.
- Lane · entry 28003
بَنَاتُ أَكْدَرَ
Wild asses, or a particular group of wild asses.
A conventional designation attributed to a particular stallion or ancestor.
- Lane · entry 28003
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic form is Form VII and its attested occurrence concerns the stars; the broader Classical movement and turbidity branches are listed separately rather than treated as meanings of that occurrence.