Quranic root
لدد
l · d · d
The root has two principal semantic axes: vehement contention and a side or lateral aspect.
The contention branch yields meanings of disputatiousness, obstinate opposition, and defense in argument. The lateral branch yields terms for the sides of the neck, valley, mouth, and other things, as well as turning from side to side, administering medicine along one side of the mouth, and figurative diversion or avoidance.
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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.
أَلَدّ
ʾaladd
- Part of speech
- Adjective · Elative; plural لُدّ
- 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.
Extremely contentious and obstinate in opposition; a quarrelsome adversary.
The Quran uses the singular elative أَلَدُّ for one who is most contentious in dispute, and the plural لُدًّا for people obstinately opposed to truth. The plural usage is also explained as describing people turned away from, or deaf to, truth.
- Lane · entry 9527
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:204word 16
“(is) the most quarrelsome”
Quran 19:97word 10
“hostile”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 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 19 Classical meanings
لَدَّ
To be violent or vehement in contention, dispute, or litigation; to overcome or oppose another vehemently therein.
Form I; both intransitive and transitive constructions are attested.
- Lane · entry 9518
لَدَّ
To restrain, withhold, hinder, or turn someone back from an affair.
Used with عن and an object or affair; the turning away may be described as gentle.
- Lane · entry 9518
لَدَّ
To administer the draught called لَدُود; figuratively, to administer sincere counsel.
The medicinal action consists in pouring the draught into one side of the mouth; the counsel usage is figurative.
- Lane · entry 9518
لَدَّدَ بِهِ
To make someone notorious or infamous.
Form II construction with بِهِ.
- Lane · entry 9519
لَادَّ
To contend violently or vehemently with someone in an altercation, dispute, or litigation.
Form III.
- Lane · entry 9520
لَادَّ
To repel something from someone; to defend or protect someone.
The construction لَادَّ عَنْهُ expresses warding something off from him or defending him.
- Lane · entry 9520
أَلَدَّهُ
To find or judge someone to be contentious.
Form IV.
- Lane · entry 9521
أَلَدَّ بِهِ
To oppose someone in contention, altercation, dispute, or litigation.
Form IV construction with بِهِ.
- Lane · entry 9521
تَلَدَّدَ
To turn one’s face to the right and left in confusion, perplexity, or amazement.
Form V; a figurative usage associated with turning between two sides.
- Lane · entry 9522
تَلَدَّدَ
To tarry or wait in expectation.
Form V.
- Lane · entry 9522
اِلْتَدَّ
To swallow a medicine or draught of the kind called لَدُود.
Form VIII.
- Lane · entry 9523
اِلْتَدَّ
To decline from or turn away from someone or something.
Form VIII construction with عَنْهُ.
- Lane · entry 9523
لَدٌّ
A sack of the kind called جُوَالِق.
A rare nominal usage.
- Lane · entry 9524
لَدُودٌ
A medicine or draught poured into one side of the mouth.
The plural is أَلِدَّةٌ; the term is associated with the two sides of the mouth.
- Lane · entry 9525
لَدِيدٌ
A side or lateral part: one of the two sides of a valley, neck, mouth, or penis, and, in one reported extension, of anything; also the outside of the neck.
The dual لَدِيدَانِ denotes the two sides; the exact anatomical or spatial referent depends on the construction.
- Lane · entry 9526
لَادٌّ
A contentious, disputatious, or litigious person; a tenacious adversary who will not incline to truth, and one vehement in war.
A personal epithet with intensive force; related feminine and plural forms are also attested.
- Lane · entry 9527
مَلْدُودٌ
A person to whom a لَدُود medicine or draught has been administered.
Passive participial usage.
- Lane · entry 9529
الْمُتَلَدَّدُ
The neck.
A reported tropical use of the substantivized form.
- Lane · entry 9530
مُلْتَدٌّ
In the idiom مَا لِي عَنْهُ مُلْتَدٌّ: an available way of avoiding or escaping something.
Idiomatic expression meaning that there is no way to avoid or escape it.
- Lane · entry 9531