Quranic root
كيد
k · y · d
Forceful handling or management of something, extended to the deliberate devising of a stratagem or plan.
The root begins from strenuous engagement with an object and broadens into contriving, managing, or employing means with deliberation; related specialized uses retain the idea of exertion or forceful action.
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- Quran-attested forms
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
كَادَ
kāda
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 8 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.
To plot against, deceive, beguile, or circumvent someone or something.
Often describes a clandestine or harmful stratagem directed against an opponent, but the construction is not restricted to human targets.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:195word 24
“scheme against me”
Quran 86:15word 2
“are plotting”
To devise, contrive, or work out a plan or stratagem.
The plan may be harmful or beneficial and may be attributed to humans or to God; the Quranic construction can present deliberate planning without asserting deception as its primary feature.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:76word 12
“(did) We plan”
Quran 21:57word 2
“surely, I will plan”
Quran 86:16word 1
“But I am planning”
كَيْدٌ
kaydun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 26 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 stratagem, plot, plan, or artful contrivance directed toward an end.
It may be blameworthy or praiseworthy and often involves cunning management of an affair or action against an opposing party; translation as plot, plan, strategy, or trick depends on context.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:5word 10
“a plot”
Quran 4:76word 17
“(the) strategy”
A divinely enacted stratagem in which apparent respite or benefit lulls wrongdoers before an unforeseen punishment.
This is a Quranic divine construction, describing a calculated taking of people unawares rather than ordinary human deceit.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:183word 4
“My plan”
Quran 68:45word 4
“My plan”
مَكِيدٌ
makīdun
- 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.
Made the object of a plot or stratagem; plotted against.
Passive participle denoting those subjected to the action of كادَ.
- Lane · entry 28687
Selected Quran examples
Quran 52:42word 7
“(are in) the plot”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 3:120كَيْدُهُمْtheir plot
- 4:76كَيْدَ(the) strategy
- 7:183كَيْدِىMy plan
- 7:195كِيدُونِscheme against me
- 8:18كَيْدِ(the) plan
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 12 Classical meanings
مَكِيدَةٌ
Deceit, guile, or circumvention; a clandestine intention to do another person harm.
Also used for an evasion, shift, wile, artifice, or contrivance; this derived noun is kept distinct from the Quranic headword كَيْدٌ.
- Lane · entry 28692
يَتَكَايَدُ
To deceive, beguile, circumvent, or plot against one another reciprocally.
Form VI, describing reciprocal action between two parties.
- Lane · entry 28689
اِكْتَادَهُ
To use a stratagem against someone or circumvent him.
Form VIII derived verb.
- Lane · entry 28690
كَيْدٌ
War or warfare, especially warfare characterized by stratagems; by extension, war marked by perfidy.
A figurative or transferred use of the noun.
- Lane · entry 28691
كَادَ
To work at, labor over, strive with, or apply oneself vigorously to something.
A distinct Classical Arabic branch centered on strenuous effort rather than plotting.
- Lane · entry 28687
كَادَ
To exert itself in croaking.
Said specifically of a raven or crow.
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كَادَ بِنَفْسِهِ
To give up the spirit or endure distress in giving up the ghost.
Tropical usage describing the act of dying.
- Lane · entry 28687
كَادَ
To vomit.
A specialized Classical Arabic verbal use.
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كَيْدٌ
Vomit.
Nominal use distinct from the verbal meaning ‘to vomit’.
- Lane · entry 28691
كَادَ
To emit fire slowly and with effort.
Said of a tinder stick or similar fire-producing object.
- Lane · entry 28687
كَادَتْ
To have menstrual flow.
A specialized use with a female subject.
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كَيْدٌ
Intention or purpose.
Occurs in the idiomatic negated expression وَلَا كَيْدًا وَلَا هَمًّا, ‘nor intending or purposing’.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The modal or near-completive كادَ ‘nearly/almost’ discussed in the supplied material is not included as a meaning of the Quranic k-y-d root; the relevant passage cross-references the كود entry.
Lane's report of a Quran citation as ‘Kur xxi. 58’ is not converted into a modern verse location. Its lexical content is assigned to the plotting sense, while the supplied secure Quran example for the related form is 21:57.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
lane-unit:kyd:28687:g1:sub5 contains the lexical explanation ‘desired to do evil’ but reports the Quran reference as ‘Kur xxi. 58’; the meaning is represented under kyd_v_s1, but the cited modern location is not asserted because it does not independently match the supplied QAC location.