Quranic root
نكد
n · k · d
The root centers on something reaching its seeker only with difficulty, hardness, or impediment.
From difficult attainment or emergence, the lexical range extends to scant or exhausted supply, withholding, hardship, distress, and adverse effects. These root-level developments are broader than the single Quranic nominal occurrence.
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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.
نَكِدٌ
nakidun
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- 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.
Hard to obtain; coming forth only with difficulty.
In the Quranic construction وَالَّذِي خَبُثَ لَا يَخْرُجُ إِلَّا نَكِدًا, it describes something that emerges only with difficulty.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:58word 12
“(with) difficulty”
Scanty or unprofitable in what it yields.
In the same Quranic construction, the sense focuses on emergence in a scant amount or without useful result.
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Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 7:58نَكِدًۭا ۚ(with) difficulty
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 25 Classical meanings
نَكِدَ
To become hard, straitened, or difficult.
Attested of a person's life and, more broadly, of becoming difficult or constrained.
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نَكِدَ
To become deficient, scant, or exhausted.
Used of milk, water, or a well whose available supply becomes little or runs out.
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نَكِدَ
To be or become unpropitious, mean, hard, or difficult.
Used of a person characterized by an adverse or unyielding disposition.
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نَكَدَ
To withhold or refuse what someone asks, giving little or nothing.
A transitive use with a requested need or object; it may also describe someone who has many askers but gives little.
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نَكَدَ
Of a raven or crow, to croak with its utmost force.
A specialized description of the bird's loud, strained croaking.
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نَكَّدَ
To impair or diminish a gift by reproach.
Used of giving that is spoiled by accompanying it with reproach or reminders of the favor.
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نَكَّدَ
To spend or exhaust one's possessions through repeated petitions.
Describes resources depleted as a result of frequent requests.
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نَكَّدَ
To vex, distress, or trouble someone.
Transitive causative use.
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نَاكَدَ
To treat someone with hardness, harshness, or ill nature.
A reciprocal or interpersonal Form III construction directed toward another person.
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أَنْكَدَ
To prove hard, mean, or niggardly to someone making a request.
Used when a person asks for a need or seeks something and the person asked yields only scantily.
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تَنَكَّدَ
To become vexed, distressed, or troubled.
Intransitive or reflexive Form V use.
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تَنَاكَدَ
To treat each other with hardness, harshness, or ill nature.
A reciprocal Form VI construction.
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نُكْدٌ
The scantiness of a gift and its being unenjoyable or unpleasant to its recipient.
A nominal description of a deficient or unwelcome gift.
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نَكَدًا
An imprecation wishing straitness, difficulty, or poverty on someone.
Occurs in formulas of malediction or adverse invocation.
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نَكَدٌ
Anything that brings evil upon the person whom it affects.
A nominal description of an adverse influence or outcome.
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نَكِدٌ
Hard, straitened, or difficult, of life or fortune.
An adjectival use applied to difficult circumstances or adverse fortune.
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نَكِدٌ
Scant in quantity, of water.
A descriptive use for a small available quantity of water.
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نَكِدٌ
An unpropitious, mean, hard, or harmful person.
The description may denote someone difficult or unyielding, or someone who brings evil upon others.
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نَكَادٌ
Hardness or difficulty in a person.
A nominal description of a person's difficult or harsh character.
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نِكَادٌ
Land possessing little in the way of goods or resources.
Used of lands or regions with scant produce or possessions.
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نَكْدَاءُ
A she-camel described in conflicting ways as abundant in milk because she has no living young to suckle, or as having no or little milk.
The term may also refer to a she-camel whose young has died; the lexicographical descriptions preserve these opposing applications.
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أَنْكَدُ
Unfortunate or unlucky.
An adjectival description of adverse fortune.
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مَنْكُودٌ
A small or scanty gift.
A passive-participial description of a gift that is little in amount.
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مَنْكُودٌ
A person who gives little despite having many petitioners, or who is pressed by petitions.
Describes a person characterized by scant giving under repeated requests.
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مُنْكِدٌ
Unwelcome or empty in one's coming to someone.
Reported in the expression جَاءَهُ مُنْكِدًا; an alternative reading and derivation is also reported for this expression.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic form is attested only at 7:58:12. Its two listed senses preserve the distinct lexical interpretations of difficulty and scant or unprofitable emergence; no additional modern Quran location is inferred from historical citation notation.
The Classical description of نَكْدَاءُ is internally conflicting: it is variously associated with abundant milk, absent or little milk, and the death of the young.
The interpretation of مُنْكِدًا in جَاءَهُ مُنْكِدًا is accompanied by an alternative reading and derivational correction; the reported lexical interpretation is retained without treating the correction as a separate form.