Quranic root
مجد
m · j · d
The root centers on reaching an utmost degree in something praiseworthy, especially generosity, honor, dignity, and nobility.
The lexical development connects abundant pasture and near-satiation with fullness and amplitude, then extends to abundant giving, praiseworthy excellence, glory, and noble status.
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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.
مَجِيدٌ
majīdun
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- 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.
Glorious, exalted in dignity, noble, and marked by generosity or beneficence.
A divine epithet in the supplied Quranic occurrences, including 11:73 and the QAC reading of 85:15 in which the adjective qualifies the Possessor of the Throne.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 11:73word 14
“All-Glorious”
Quran 85:15word 3
“the Glorious”
Glorious, noble, exalted, and richly endowed with praiseworthy qualities.
Applied to the Qur'an because of the abundance of its worldly and eschatological excellences, as in 50:1 and 85:21. The lexical evidence also records an alternate reading at 85:15 in which the adjective qualifies the Throne, describing it as exalted, sublime, and noble.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 50:1word 3
“the Glorious”
Quran 85:21word 4
“Glorious”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 11:73مَّجِيدٌۭAll-Glorious
- 50:1ٱلْمَجِيدِthe Glorious
- 85:15ٱلْمَجِيدُthe Glorious
- 85:21مَّجِيدٌۭGlorious
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 18 Classical meanings
مَجَدَ
To be, or become, possessed of glory, honor, dignity, or nobility.
Form I verbal use describing the acquisition or presence of these qualities.
- Lane · entry 12256
مَجَدَ
To feed in abundant pasture and become nearly satiated.
Used of camels; a related use is said of sheep or goats that eat leguminous plants enough to blunt their hunger.
- Lane · entry 12256
مَجَّدَ
To attribute glory to, glorify, honor, magnify, or praise someone.
Form II transitive use.
- Lane · entry 12257
مَجَّدَ
To make a gift large or abundant.
A transitive use concerning the increased size or abundance of a gift.
- Lane · entry 12257
مَاجَدَ
To vie or compete with someone in glory, honor, dignity, or nobility.
Form III reciprocal or comparative use; it may include overcoming another in such distinction.
- Lane · entry 12258
أَمْجَدَ
To entertain guests honorably and abundantly, providing sufficient or superabundant hospitality.
Form IV hospitality construction.
- Lane · entry 12259
أَمْجَدَ
To choose noble or generous mothers for one's children, thereby causing the offspring to be noble or generous.
A Form IV causative use concerning the nobility or generosity of descendants.
- Lane · entry 12259
أَمْجَدَ
To revile and disparage someone extensively.
A Form IV intensive use with abuse and blame.
- Lane · entry 12259
أَمْجَدَ
To feed an animal abundantly, filling or partly filling its belly and satiating it.
Used especially of camels or beasts of carriage and their being fed on abundant herbage or fodder.
- Lane · entry 12259
تَمَجَّدَ
To have glory attributed to oneself or to become reputed as glorious.
Form V reflexive or passive-like use.
- Lane · entry 12260
تَمَاجَدَ
To display one's own glory and noble qualities, and to vie with others in such claims.
The display may involve good actions or the glory and nobility of one's ancestors.
- Lane · entry 12261
اِسْتَمْجَدَ
To seek or desire glory, sometimes giving lavishly from that desire.
Form X seeking or pursuing majd as a motive for generous expenditure.
- Lane · entry 12262
اِسْتَمْجَدَ
To yield much fire or produce abundantly.
A figurative proverb use said of the markh and ʿafār trees, which readily provide abundant fire.
- Lane · entry 12262
مَجْدٌ
Glory, honor, dignity, or nobility; the attainment or inherited possession of such distinction.
May refer to ample or acquired glory, transmitted ancestral prestige, or personal nobility joined with good actions.
- Lane · entry 12263
مَجْدٌ
Generosity, liberality, or manly virtue and moral goodness.
A related nominal branch emphasizing generous conduct and ethical excellence.
- Lane · entry 12263
مَاجِدٌ
Of a camel, one that has fed in abundant pasture and become well supplied or satiated.
This specialized adjectival use refers back to the pasture and feeding expression for camels.
- Lane · entry 12265
- Lane · entry 12256
مَاجِدٌ
Much or abundant.
An adjectival use of quantity or abundance; the cited example about eating and drinking is illustrative and does not impose a gender restriction.
- Lane · entry 12265
هُوَ أَهْلُ التَّمَاجِيدِ
A person who is a fit or deserving object of praise for glory, honor, dignity, or nobility.
Conventional praise expression.
- Lane · entry 12267
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied QAC forms follow the canonical morphology of the listed occurrences. Variant readings reported in the lexical evidence can shift the syntactic referent at 85:15 and 85:21, especially between a divine epithet and an epithet of the Throne.