Quranic root
لذذ
l · dh · dh
A root centered on pleasant taste and the experience of delight.
The lexical field extends from pleasant flavor to general pleasantness, desirability, pleasure, and derived expressions for experiencing or mutually giving pleasure. Some related forms are lexicalized in specialized uses such as sleep, wine, or a pleasant place.
- Maqāyīs · row 4144
- Lane · entry 9533
- Lane · entry 9535
- Lane · entry 9537
- Lane · entry 9538
- Lane · entry 9540
- Lane · entry 9542
- Lane · entry 9543
- Lane · entry 9547
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- Quran-attested forms
- 2
- Quran senses
- 3
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
لَذَّ
ladhdha
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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 take pleasure or delight in something; to find it pleasant.
Form I may take an object or occur with بِـ for finding something pleasant or delighting in it. The Quranic occurrence presents the eyes as experiencing delight.
- Lane · entry 9533
Selected Quran examples
Quran 43:71word 11
“and delights”
لَذَّةٌ
ladhdhahun
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- Quran occurrences
- 2 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.
Pleasant, delightful, or delicious.
An adjectival epithet for something experienced as agreeable or delicious; the Quranic attestations qualify drink as pleasant or delicious for those who consume it.
- Lane · entry 9534
- Lane · entry 9533
- Lane · entry 9542
- Lane · entry 9543
Selected Quran examples
Quran 37:46word 2
“delicious”
Quran 47:15word 21
“delicious”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 3 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 12 Classical meanings
لَذَّ
To be or become pleasant, delightful, delicious, or desirable.
An intransitive Form I use describing a thing that is pleasant or becomes so.
- Lane · entry 9533
لَذٌّ
Sleep.
A distinct nominal use recorded under the same written form.
- Lane · entry 9541
لَذَّةٌ
Pleasure or delight; pleasantness, deliciousness, lusciousness, sweetness, or enjoyment.
A noun, with plural لَذَّاتٌ; it is contrasted with pain and is near-synonymous with شَهْوَةٌ in one sense. لَذْوَى is recorded as a variant with the same meaning.
- Lane · entry 9542
لَذَّةٌ
Pleasurable, easy, comfortable eating and drinking in a state of ease and sufficiency.
A specialized use referring to the enjoyment of food and drink under comfortable and abundant circumstances.
- Lane · entry 9542
لَذِيذٌ
Pleasant, delightful, delicious, luscious, sweet, savoury, or desirable.
An adjectival epithet applied to such things as beverages, a cup, life, or conversation; those examples do not impose an object-class restriction.
- Lane · entry 9543
لَذِيذٌ
A person enjoying pleasure or delight.
A substantivized personal description; the related plural expression refers to people who pursue their pleasures.
- Lane · entry 9543
اللَّذِيذُ
Wine.
A lexicalized definite use, with plural forms also recorded.
- Lane · entry 9543
لَاذَّ
To give and receive pleasure mutually in sexual intercourse.
A reciprocal Form III construction describing mutual sexual enjoyment.
- Lane · entry 9535
تَلَذَّذَ
To become pleased or delighted; to take pleasure or delight in oneself.
A Form V reflexive or inchoative expression of experiencing or deriving pleasure.
- Lane · entry 9537
تَلَاذَّ
To give each other pleasure or delight in sexual intercourse.
A reciprocal Form VI construction.
- Lane · entry 9538
اِسْتَلَذَّ
To experience pleasure or delight.
A Form X expression of experiencing something as pleasurable.
- Lane · entry 9540
مَلَذٌّ
A place of pleasure or delight; a pleasant place or stretch of ground.
Plural مَلَاذُّ; one recorded use concerns urging a riding animal onto level, non-rugged ground.
- Lane · entry 9547
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Lane and Maqayis records use the contracted root لذ; they are matched here to the canonical QAC root لذذ.
The supplemental Lane cross-reference to التَدّ is context-only and belongs to the separate root لدد, so it is not used as evidence for this artifact.