Quranic root
قضب
q · ḍ · b
The root centers on cutting, severing, or removing a portion of something.
From the basic act of cutting, the lexicon develops meanings for cut branches, fresh fodder named for being cut, rods and implements, and figurative extensions such as breaking off speech or acting without preparation.
- Maqāyīs · row 3796
- Mufradāt · row 1189
- Lane · entry 8516
- Lane · entry 8522
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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.
قَضْب
qaḍb
- Part of speech
- 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.
Fresh-cut fodder or herbage.
In the Quranic occurrence, it denotes fresh fodder, especially herbage cut for feeding; the term is also used collectively for such plants.
- Lane · entry 8522
- Mufradāt · row 1189
Selected Quran examples
Quran 80:28word 2
“and green fodder”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 80:28وَقَضْبًۭاand green fodder
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 39 Classical meanings
قَضَبَ
To cut or cut off something, including a branch or excess growth.
A basic transitive use; the object may be cut from a larger thing or its redundant portions may be removed.
- Lane · entry 8516
قَضَبَ
To strike or beat someone with a rod or stick.
A distinct Form I use with a person as the object and a rod or similar implement as the instrument.
- Lane · entry 8516
قَضَّبَ
To prune or cut the branches of a grapevine.
A conventional Form II use, especially for pruning in spring.
- Lane · entry 8517
قَضَّبَ
Of the sun, to extend or spread its rays like rods.
A figurative use describing the appearance of the sun's beams.
- Lane · entry 8517
أَقْضَبَ
Of land, to produce the plant called قَضْب abundantly.
A Form IV intransitive use with the land as subject.
- Lane · entry 8518
اِنْقَضَبَ
To become cut or cut off.
An intransitive or passive-resultative Form VII use; it may be used intensively or of several things.
- Lane · entry 8520
اِنْقَضَبَ
To become cut off or separated from one's companions.
A figurative extension of being severed from a group.
- Lane · entry 8520
اِنْقَضَبَ
Of a star, to dart or shoot downward from its place.
A figurative astronomical or poetic use.
- Lane · entry 8520
اِقْتَضَبَ
To cut something off from the thing to which it belongs.
A Form VIII use retaining the physical sense of severing or breaking off.
- Lane · entry 8521
اِقْتَضَبَ
To break off someone's discourse and turn it to another subject.
A conventional rhetorical use: speech is abruptly cut off or diverted, sometimes with little connection to what preceded.
- Lane · entry 8521
اِقْتَضَبَ
To extemporize speech, a narrative, or poetry.
The expression refers to producing words without prior preparation or elaboration.
- Lane · entry 8521
اِقْتَضَبَ
To ride or take an animal before it has been trained or broken in.
Used especially of riding a young or untrained camel or other mount.
- Lane · entry 8521
قَضْبٌ
To task someone with work before he is able to perform it well.
A reported lexical use connected with the cutting-derived idea of taking or imposing something before it has been prepared.
- Lane · entry 8521
اِقْتَضَبَ
To slaughter a camel while it is healthy, fat, and youthful.
A specialized figurative or conventional use applied to a camel.
- Lane · entry 8521
قَضْبَةٌ
A tree whose branches grow long and lank.
A botanical description of the tree's growth habit.
- Lane · entry 8522
قَضْبَةٌ
A tree or wood used for making bows, or an arrow shaft made from such wood.
The term may refer to the source tree or to the resulting bow or arrow material.
- Lane · entry 8522
- Lane · entry 8524
قَضْبَةٌ
A portion cut from a branch, especially for making a bow or arrow.
A cut piece or section of wood, distinct from the living plant from which it was taken.
- Lane · entry 8522
قِضْبَةٌ
A portion of a herd of camels, or of a flock or herd of sheep or goats.
A collective or distributive noun for part of a group of livestock.
- Lane · entry 8525
قِضْبَةٌ
Slender, light, or active.
An adjectival epithet applied to a she-camel and likewise to a man.
- Lane · entry 8525
قَضِيبٌ
A cut-off branch, rod, stick, wand, twig, switch, shoot, or stalk.
The central nominal use refers especially to a branch cut from a tree; plural forms include قُضْبَان and قُضُب.
- Lane · entry 8526
قَضِيبٌ
A bow made from a rod or branch, especially one made from a branch that has not been split.
A specialized object sense derived from the branch or rod meaning.
- Lane · entry 8526
قَضِيبٌ
The quill or shaft of a feather.
A technical or figurative extension of the slender rod sense.
- Lane · entry 8526
قَضِيبٌ
The penis or virga of a man or animal.
An anatomical use of the rod-like noun.
- Lane · entry 8526
قَضِيبٌ
A slender arrow.
A specialized weapon term based on the slender-rod shape.
- Lane · entry 8526
قَضِيبٌ
A slender sword.
A figurative weapon term comparing the sword's form to a slender branch or rod.
- Lane · entry 8526
قَضِيبٌ
An untrained or unbroken she-camel, and likewise an untrained male camel.
The adjective can describe an animal ridden before it has become gentle or experienced in being trained.
- Lane · entry 8526
قَضَابَةُ شَجَرٍ
The portions that fall from the ends of branches when trees or grapevines are lopped or pruned.
A collective term for the successive cut-off pieces produced by pruning.
- Lane · entry 8527
قَضَّابٌ
One whose habitual work or occupation is cutting.
An occupational or habitual-agent noun.
- Lane · entry 8528
قُضَّابٌ
A certain plant.
A plant name distinct from the fodder noun قَضْب.
- Lane · entry 8529
قَضَّابَةٌ
A tooth capable of cutting something apart.
Appears in an idiom about having no tooth able to separate one half of a thing from the other.
- Lane · entry 8530
قَضَّابَةٌ
A person who decisively settles affairs and is able to carry them out.
A figurative intensive epithet for a capable, action-oriented person.
- Lane · entry 8530
قَاضِبٌ
A sword that cuts sharply; very sharp or sharply cutting.
An active-participial epithet for a sword, with intensified forms also reported.
- Lane · entry 8531
مِقْضَبٌ
A reaping hook or pruning hook.
An instrument noun for cutting herbage or branches.
- Lane · entry 8532
مَقْضَبَةٌ
A place where قَضْب fodder grows, or where the trees used for bows grow.
A place noun covering either a fodder field or a stand of bow-making trees.
- Lane · entry 8533
مِقْضَابٌ
One whose craft or occupation is cutting, especially cutting herbage.
An occupational agent noun.
- Lane · entry 8534
مِقْضَابٌ
Land that produces the fresh fodder called قَضْب abundantly.
A specialized descriptive use for productive land.
- Lane · entry 8534
المُقْتَضَبُ
A classical Arabic poetic metre.
The name is explained through the idea of a metrical form cut off from another pattern.
- Lane · entry 8536
مُقْتَضَبٌ
Extemporized, when applied to verse, poetry, or writing.
Describes material produced without prior preparation or composition.
- Lane · entry 8536
مُقْتَضَبٌ
Untrained in a work, or tasked with it before being able to perform it well.
An adjectival use for something or someone not yet prepared or polished for the task.
- Lane · entry 8536
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quran attests قَضْب only once, in 80:28, where the lexical evidence supports fresh fodder or herbage.
One Lane unit presents the sense 'to task someone before he can perform the work well' with an unusual form attribution; the semantic branch is retained, but its exact derivational vocalization is uncertain.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The lexical unit lane-unit:qDb:8521:g1:sub5 is under the اِقْتَضَبَ entry but prints قَضْبٌ alongside a verbal translation. Its meaning is represented as a Classical use, while the precise form attribution remains uncertain.