Quranic root
مضي
m · ḍ · y
The root centers on passage and penetration: moving through or onward, and thereby reaching or taking effect.
Its lexical development extends from physical or temporal passage to continued advance, effective completion of affairs, forceful performance, and decisive enactment.
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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.
مَضَى
maḍā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 4 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 advance, proceed, or go on.
Used of continuing along a course or undertaking; the Quranic forms include an imperative and expressions of continued movement or progress.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 15:65word 12
“and go on”
Quran 18:60word 12
“I continue”
To pass on, pass away, or go by.
Used of entities and events that have gone forth or passed from the present; this includes the passing of a precedent or an earlier occurrence.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 8:38word 14
“preceded”
Quran 43:8word 5
“and has passed”
مُضِيّ
muḍiyy
- Part of speech
- Verbal 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.
Proceeding, passage, or going forth.
A verbal noun denoting passage or onward movement of entities or events.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 36:67word 8
“to proceed”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 8:38مَضَتْpreceded
- 15:65وَٱمْضُوا۟and go on
- 18:60أَمْضِىَI continue
- 36:67مُضِيًّۭاto proceed
- 43:8وَمَضَىٰand has passed
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 14 Classical meanings
مَضَى
Of time: to pass or elapse.
Used in the construction مَضَى لَهُ when time is the subject or reference.
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مَضَى
To advance or act with penetrating energy, sharpness, vigor, and effectiveness.
Used of pressing onward in a journey or acting vigorously and effectively in an affair.
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مَضَى
Of a command, order, saying, or affair: to take effect, be carried out, or be accomplished.
Includes مَضَى الأَمْرُ, مَضَى القَوْلُ, and مَضَى عَلَى الأَمْرِ; the latter may also describe carrying an undertaking through.
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مَضَى
To keep to or apply oneself constantly and perseveringly to an affair.
A conventional use with عَلَى in which persistence, rather than mere movement, is foregrounded.
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مَضَى
Of a sword: to cut, penetrate, or be sharp.
A specialized use describing the cutting or penetrating efficacy of a sword.
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أَمْضَى
To make a contract, sale, oath, covenant, or similar undertaking take effect; to execute or perform it.
A transitive Form IV causative use with an undertaking as object.
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أَمْضَى
To make an oath unconditional, decisive, and irreversibly binding.
A specialized use with an oath, removing exception or qualification.
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أَمْضَى
To form or give a decided opinion.
Used with رأي and related expressions of settled judgment.
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أَمْضَى
To sign a writing, thereby rendering it effective.
The writing becomes legally or practically effective through the signature.
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مَاضٍ
Penetrating, sharp, vigorous, effective, or proficient in action; excelling in performance.
An adjective used of a person or animal characterized by vigorous effective action, and of someone skilled or successful in carrying out a task.
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مَاضٍ
Of a command or order: effectual, having effect, and executed or performed.
Used adjectivally of an order that has taken effect or been carried out.
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مَاضٍ
Past, as opposed to future.
Especially used of time or a period that has already elapsed.
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إِمْضَاءٌ
A signature.
The act or mark by which a writing is signed and made effective.
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تِمْضَاءٌ
One who performs affairs with energy and perseverance; an intensive epithet.
An intensive designation for a person characterized by energetic, persistent execution of affairs.
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Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The packet reports 25 Lane primary source units in its integrity summary, but 26 source_unit objects are enumerated; the coverage ledger follows all 26 explicitly supplied units.