Quranic root
ميد
m · y · d
The root has two documented semantic axes: movement or agitation, and benefit, giving, or nourishment.
The movement axis develops through shaking, swaying, convulsion, inclination, and dizziness. The benefactive axis extends through giving and supplying food to the food-laden table designated by مَائِدَةٌ.
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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.
مَادَ
māda
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 3 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 move, sway, or convulse violently.
In the Quranic occurrences, the earth is the subject and the construction with بِـ describes its convulsive movement affecting people: أَنْ تَمِيدَ بِكُمْ and أَنْ تَمِيدَ بِهِمْ.
- Lane · entry 13176
- Mufradāt · row 1398
Selected Quran examples
Quran 16:15word 6
“it should shake”
Quran 21:31word 6
“it (should) shake”
Quran 31:10word 11
“it (might) shake”
مَائِدَةٌ
māʾidahun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
A table spread or laid with food; a food-laden table.
In the Quranic occurrences, the word denotes the heavenly table spread with food.
- Lane · entry 13189
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:112word 13
“a table spread”
Quran 5:114word 9
“a table spread”
The nourishment requested from heaven, figuratively understood as knowledge that nourishes the hearts.
This is a reported Quran-focused interpretation of the heavenly-table request, especially the passage in 5:114; it is a figurative extension rather than the ordinary physical definition of the noun.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:114word 9
“a table spread”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 5:112مَآئِدَةًۭa table spread
- 5:114مَآئِدَةًۭa table spread
- 16:15تَمِيدَit should shake
- 21:31تَمِيدَit (should) shake
- 31:10تَمِيدَit (might) shake
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 28 Classical meanings
مَادَ
To turn or twist about, becoming contorted or convulsed.
- Lane · entry 13176
مَادَ
To writhe upon a spear after being pierced.
A conventional construction describing the contortions of a wounded person.
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مَادَ
To quiver or tremble, as a mirage.
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مَادَ
To become confounded, perplexed, or amazed.
Recorded as a figurative use.
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مَادَ
To experience heaving of the stomach, a tendency to vomit, and dizziness.
A figurative or physical use associated with intoxication or travel by sea.
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مَادَ
To cause someone to reel or be carried round through the motion of the sea or ground.
Used in constructions such as مَادَ بِهِ الْبَحْرُ and مَادَتْ بِهِ الْأَرْضُ.
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مَادَ
To become altered in odor, or become stinking, through dew or moisture.
Recorded of the colocynth and, similarly, a date.
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مَادَ
To incline or sway from side to side.
Recorded of branches, a person's gait, and an earth described as inclining; the human-gait use can convey affected elegance, pride, or self-conceit.
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مَادَ
To bestow a benefit, favor, or gift; to give.
The object may be a person receiving the benefit or gift.
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مَادَ
To furnish travelers with provisions or bring people wheat or food.
The provisioning use is compared with زَادَ; bringing wheat or food is also recorded as a dialectal equivalent of مَارَ.
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مَادَ
To trade as a merchant.
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مَادَ
To increase or grow.
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اِمْتَادَهُ
To ask or desire someone to give something, especially wheat or food.
The food-related use is a specific application of the construction of seeking something from another person.
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مَيْدَ
A dialectal particle meaning other than or except, on or upon, or because of.
It is recorded as a dialectal form of بَيْدَ with several particle functions.
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مَيْدَا ذَلِكَ
On account of that; for the sake of that.
Used in the fixed expression فَعَلْتُهُ مَيْدَا ذَلِكَ or مَيْدَ ذَلِكَ.
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مِيدَاءٌ
The amount, measure, dimensions, or extent of a thing; also the surface or extent of a road and the furthest distance to which horses run.
The term can refer to the measure of a thing's sides or its spatial limit.
- Lane · entry 13182
مِيدَاءٌ
A mode, manner, or fashion.
Used in expressions describing things constructed according to one mode.
- Lane · entry 13182
مِيدَاؤُهُ
Opposite to or facing something; directly across from it.
Used of one house or place in relation to another.
- Lane · entry 13183
مَيْدَانٌ
A horse-course, race-ground, or hippodrome.
The plural is مَيَادِينُ.
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مَيْدَانٌ
A delicate, pleasant, ample, or easy life.
Used in the expression عَيْشٌ مَيْدَانٌ.
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مَيْدَانٌ
A historical term for the period of a caliph's reign, given as roughly twenty to twenty-four years.
Used in مَيْدَانُ الْخُلَفَاءِ.
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مَيُودٌ
Much moving, agitated, or vacillating.
An intensive epithet also applied figuratively to worldly prosperity.
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مَائِدٌ
Affected by heaving of the stomach, a tendency to vomit, and dizziness.
Associated with intoxication or voyaging upon the sea.
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مَائِدٌ
Inclining or swaying from side to side.
Recorded of a branch and of a person whose affected gait conveys elegance, pride, or self-conceit.
- Lane · entry 13188
مَائِدَةٌ
By metonymy, the table itself even without food, or the food itself even without a table.
The table-alone extension is reported with disagreement among authorities; the food-alone extension is also recorded.
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مَائِدَةٌ
A round piece of ground or land, by comparison with a table.
A figurative use.
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مَوَائِدُ
Calamities.
Recorded as a transposed form related to مَآوِدُ, distinct from the ordinary plural of مَائِدَةٌ.
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مُمْتَادٌ
One who asks or desires a gift, or one from whom a gift is requested; also one asking to bring wheat or food.
The entry records both participant-role readings of the gift-seeking relation, with the food-related use as a specific application.
- Lane · entry 13191
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic verb is displayed under the perfect citation form مَادَ, while all supplied Quran occurrences are the imperfect تَمِيدَ.
The knowledge reading of مَائِدَةٌ is explicitly reported as a figurative interpretation of the heavenly-table passage, not as its ordinary physical gloss.