Quranic root
كسد
k · s · d
The root centers on inferiority or poor condition that makes something unwanted or not sought after.
This orientation extends to a thing or commodity becoming unsaleable and to a market becoming stagnant. The Quranic noun applies the commercial branch to decline or stagnation in trade.
- Maqāyīs · row 3983
- Lane · entry 28220
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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.
كَسَاد
kasād
- 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.
Commercial decline or stagnation: reduced demand and difficulty of sale.
In the Quran, used of commerce or trade in the expression كَسَادَهَا, referring to its decline or stagnation.
- Lane · entry 28220
Selected Quran examples
Quran 9:24word 13
“a decline (in) it”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 9:24كَسَادَهَاa decline (in) it
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 6 Classical meanings
كَسَدَ
To be or become bad, corrupt, or unsound.
A broader underlying use distinguished from the commercial sense of becoming unsaleable or being in little demand.
- Lane · entry 28220
كَسَدَ
To become unsaleable, difficult to sell, or little in demand.
Used of a thing or commodity; this is the Form I verbal use corresponding to the state named by كَسَاد.
- Lane · entry 28220
كَسَدَ
Of a market, to become stagnant or dull with respect to trade.
Used specifically of a market and its traffic.
- Lane · entry 28220
أَكْسَدَ
To make a market stagnant or dull with respect to trade; also, to find one's market stagnant.
The first use is causative; the second describes a person's market as having become stagnant.
- Lane · entry 28221
كَسِيدٌ
Inferior in condition; ignoble.
A Classical descriptive use, synonymous with being low or inferior in standing.
- Lane · entry 28222
كَاسِدٌ
Unsaleable, difficult to sell, or in little demand; of a market, stagnant or dull in trade.
Used adjectivally of a thing or commodity, and also of a market.
- Lane · entry 28223
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic occurrence is a noun, while the related Form I and Form IV verbs and participles are retained separately as broader Classical Arabic lexical entries.