Quranic root
ندد
n · d · d
The root centers on straying away and separation, especially the flight or dispersal of an animal or group.
From physical fleeing and dispersal, the semantic field extends to opposition: a nidd is a counterpart that takes a different course or stands against another. Some associated words preserve the meanings of gathering, raised calling, and other specialized lexical developments.
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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.
نِدّ
nidd
- Part of speech
- Noun · plural أنداد
- Quran occurrences
- 6 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 counterpart or equal sharing the essential nature of another.
In the Quranic plural أنداد, the word denotes supposed counterparts or equals attributed to Allah; the emphasis is on likeness or equivalence rather than similarity in any incidental respect.
- Lane · entry 43469
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:165word 8
“equals”
Quran 14:30word 3
“equals”
A rival or opposing counterpart, including a substitute set up in another’s place.
In Quranic usage, أنداد refers to beings or idols treated as rivals to Allah or taken as objects of worship instead of Him; this polemical use explains translations such as “rivals.”
- Lane · entry 43469
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:22word 21
“rivals”
Quran 39:8word 23
“rivals”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:22أَندَادًۭاrivals
- 2:165أَندَادًۭاequals
- 14:30أَندَادًۭاequals
- 34:33أَندَادًۭا ۚequals
- 39:8أَندَادًۭاrivals
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 16 Classical meanings
نَدَّ
To take fright, shy, bolt, or run away wildly; to become refractory and go off at random.
Used especially of a camel or other animal that breaks loose and flees.
- Lane · entry 43463
نَدَّ
To assemble, said of a people.
A separate reported usage of the verb.
- Lane · entry 43463
نَدَّ
To deviate from the established course of speech, said of a word.
Reported as a less authoritative usage and compared with شذّ.
- Lane · entry 43463
نَدَّدَ
To raise one’s voice.
The usage can involve loudly saying about another person something that he dislikes.
- Lane · entry 43464
نَدَّدَ بِهِ
To expose or proclaim another’s faults, making him notorious or infamous.
Commonly construed with بِهِ; applicable in verse or prose.
- Lane · entry 43464
نَدَّدَ
To make someone hear foul or abusive speech; to revile him.
A stronger abusive use related to loudly denouncing the person addressed.
- Lane · entry 43464
نَادَّهُ
To oppose or contend against someone; to argue against him.
A Form III construction with a personal object.
- Lane · entry 43465
اِنْدَّ
To disperse camels.
A Form IV usage applied to a herd or group of camels.
- Lane · entry 43466
تَنَادَّوا
To disperse themselves and go away in different directions.
In the expression يَوْمُ التَّنَادِّ, this is interpreted as the day of people’s dispersal at the Resurrection; the same expression was also explained as the day of their assembling.
- Lane · entry 43467
نَدٌّ
A fumigating perfume or aromatic substance, including a fragrant wood or compound perfume.
The lexical identification varies among authorities, with proposed associations including ghaliyah, ambergris, and other perfumes; its Arabic authenticity is disputed.
- Lane · entry 43468
نَدٌّ
A high hill rising toward the sky; a great hill of clay or loam.
Reported as a dialectal usage of Yemen.
- Lane · entry 43468
نَدُودٌ
A she-camel prone to taking fright, shying, and running away at random.
An adjectival noun describing the animal’s recurrent disposition.
- Lane · entry 43470
نَادٌّ
One that takes fright, shies, and runs away at random; a bolting camel.
Its plural is نِدَاد; نَدَد is also used as a quasi-plural for camels in a state of dispersion.
- Lane · entry 43472
لَيْسَ لَهُ نَادٌّ
To have no means of subsistence or livelihood.
The idiom apparently refers to the absence of livestock or other live stock, drawing on the sense of a camel that has bolted.
- Lane · entry 43472
طَيْرٌ أَنَادِيدُ / ذَهَبُوا أَنَادِيدَ
Dispersed in separate directions, said of birds or of a people.
The expressions describe a scattered group; variant forms include يَنَادِيد and تَنَادِيد.
- Lane · entry 43473
مُنَدَّ
A voice raised high in calling.
A nominal description of a loudly raised calling voice.
- Lane · entry 43474
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
يَوْمُ التَّنَادِّ is reported as a variant reading and has competing interpretations, including dispersal, assembly, and derivation from calling; it is not a QAC occurrence of the displayed أنداد form.
The perfume noun نَدٌّ has disputed lexical status and multiple proposed identifications in the Classical sources.