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Quranic root

قدد

q · d · d

The root centers on cutting or splitting something lengthwise, especially into an elongated form.

From lengthwise cutting, the usage extends to strips and thongs, bodily shape and proportion, division into distinct parties or ways, and figurative acts of distinguishing or arranging affairs.

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Quran-attested forms
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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.

قَدَّ

qadda

Part of speech
Verb · Form I
Form
I
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.

  1. To cut or tear something lengthwise, splitting it along its length.

    In the Quranic passage about a shirt, the verb occurs actively as قَدَّتْ and passively as قُدَّ; the construction specifies whether the tear is from the front or from the back.

    • Lane · entry 7874
    • Mufradāt · row 1160
    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 12:25word 3

    and she tore

    Quran 12:26word 13

    (is) torn

    Quran 12:27word 4

    (is) torn

قِدَّة

qiddah

Part of speech
Adjective · plural, substantivized
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.

  1. Diverse or divided into distinct ways, parties, or sects.

    The Quranic form is the plural قِدَدًا in the expression طَرَائِقَ قِدَدًا; it describes ways or groups that are separate and differing from one another.

    • Lane · entry 7885
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    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 72:11word 9

    different

Occurrences in the Quran

Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.

  • 12:25وَقَدَّتْand she tore
  • 12:26قُدَّ(is) torn
  • 12:27قُدَّ(is) torn
  • 12:28قُدَّtorn
  • 72:11قِدَدًۭاdifferent
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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 49 Classical meanings
  • قَدَّ

    To cut something off completely, or to cut it without specifying a direction.

    A broader Classical usage alongside the more specific lengthwise-cutting sense.

    • Lane · entry 7874
  • قَدَّ

    To cross or cut through a desert or the night by traveling through it.

    Figurative extension of cutting through a space or period.

    • Lane · entry 7874
  • قَدَّ بِهِ الطَّرِيقُ

    For a road to cut someone off from companions or from the object of a journey.

    A conventional construction with the road as the subject or cause of separation.

    • Lane · entry 7874
  • قَدَّ الكَلَامَ

    To cut short or break off speech; in another reported usage, to articulate speech.

    The source reports more than one interpretation of this construction.

    • Lane · entry 7874
  • قَدَّهُ

    To cut out or shape something in any manner; figuratively, to make someone well-shaped or beautiful in proportion.

    The figurative use concerns conformation or proportion rather than the act of cutting itself.

    • Lane · entry 7874
  • قَدَّ

    To suffer a cutting pain in the belly.

    A specialized bodily usage associated with قُدَاد.

    • Lane · entry 7874
  • قَدَّدَ

    To make dried meat by cutting flesh into strips or elongated pieces and drying it, with or without salting.

    The derived Form II verb describes the preparation of قَدِيد.

    • Lane · entry 7875
  • قَدَّدَ عَلَيْهِ

    For a garment to fit or suit someone in size and length.

    Said of clothing in relation to the person wearing it.

    • Lane · entry 7875
  • أَقَدَّ عَلَيْهِ

    For food to cause abdominal pain.

    A specialized Form IV construction with food as the subject.

    • Lane · entry 7876
  • تَقَدَّدَ

    For a garment or piece of cloth to become extensively slit, torn, ragged, or worn out.

    Said of cloth that has deteriorated through repeated tearing or wear.

    • Lane · entry 7877
  • تَقَدَّدَ

    For flesh-meat to become cut into strips and dried.

    A quasi-passive usage corresponding to the preparation of dried meat.

    • Lane · entry 7877
  • تَقَدَّدَ

    For a company of people to become separated into distinct parties.

    The separation is expressed through becoming قِدَد, or separate groups.

    • Lane · entry 7877
  • تَقَدَّدَ

    For a thing to become dry or dry up.

    A general intransitive usage.

    • Lane · entry 7877
  • تَقَدَّدَ

    For a she-camel to change in condition from fat to lean, or from lean to fat.

    The source reports both directions of change according to different authorities.

    • Lane · entry 7877
  • اِنْقَدَّ

    For a skin, garment, or similar article to become cut, split, or torn lengthwise, or to be cut off.

    The usage is specifically associated with items such as skins, clothing, bags, and related articles.

    • Lane · entry 7878
  • اِقْتَدَّ الأُمُورَ

    To consider and arrange affairs, forecasting their outcomes and distinguishing between them.

    A figurative Form VIII usage concerning deliberation and management.

    • Lane · entry 7879
  • اِسْتَقَدَّ

    To continue uniformly or in one consistent state or course.

    Said of an affair or of camels proceeding undeviatingly along one course.

    • Lane · entry 7880
  • قَدْ

    Sufficiency; enough or what is sufficient.

    A noun used indeclinably, synonymous with حَسْبُ.

    • Lane · entry 7881
  • قَدْ

    To suffice or be enough for someone.

    A verbal-noun usage equivalent to يَكْفِي, as in قَدْنِي, “it suffices me.”

    • Lane · entry 7881
  • قَدْ

    Expectation or anticipation.

    A particle used with a verb, especially with a future or imperfect verb in contexts of anticipated occurrence.

    • Lane · entry 7881
  • قَدْ

    The nearness of a past event to the present, often rendered “just” or “already.”

    A particle used with a past verb; the source also discusses its use in circumstantial clauses.

    • Lane · entry 7881
  • قَدْ

    Rarity or paucity of an occurrence.

    A reported particle usage whose interpretation may overlap with affirmation or with rarity inferred from the surrounding statement.

    • Lane · entry 7881
  • قَدْ

    Frequency or repeated occurrence, sometimes equivalent to رُبَّمَا.

    A particle usage attested in non-Quranic literary examples.

    • Lane · entry 7881
  • قَدْ

    Affirmation of truth, certainty, or indeed.

    Used with a verb, especially before a past verb in emphatic assertions.

    • Lane · entry 7881
  • قَدْ

    Negation, in a rare reported construction.

    An unusual usage in which the particle is said to occupy the place of مَا.

    • Lane · entry 7881
  • قَدٌّ

    The skin of a lamb or kid, especially a small skin.

    The word may also occur in proverbial expressions contrasting a small skin or affair with a larger hide or matter.

    • Lane · entry 7882
  • مَا يَجْمَلُ قَدَّكَ إِلَى أَدِيمِكَ

    What makes a small or inferior matter comparable to a great or noble one?

    A proverbial expression applied to someone who exceeds the proper limit or compares the contemptible with the noble.

    • Lane · entry 7882
  • قَدٌّ

    The size, measure, bulk, bodily figure, stature, or proportion of a thing or person.

    Includes equality in size and beauty or symmetry of bodily form.

    • Lane · entry 7882
  • قُدٌّ

    A kind of marine fish.

    A specialized lexical item; it is traditionally said to increase sexual vigor when eaten.

    • Lane · entry 7883
  • قِدٌّ

    A thing cut lengthwise or in an elongated form.

    The noun denotes something characterized by the result of قَدَّ.

    • Lane · entry 7884
  • قِدٌّ

    A thong cut from untanned skin, used for sewing footwear, binding captives, or fastening saddles and similar equipment.

    It may be a single thong or a collective term for such thongs.

    • Lane · entry 7884
  • قِدٌّ

    A whip.

    A reported lexical use, also interpreted in one cited expression as referring to another meaning of قِدّ.

    • Lane · entry 7884
  • قِدٌّ

    A sandal cut lengthwise from skin.

    The term may also refer specifically to a sandal retaining its hair for pliability.

    • Lane · entry 7884
  • قِدٌّ

    A vessel made of skin.

    It can be contrasted with a vessel made of wood or with a fragment of a drinking vessel.

    • Lane · entry 7884
  • شَدِيدُ القِدِّ

    In the expression شَدِيدُ القِدِّ, either a strong bowstring or strength in drawing a bow.

    The source reports an interpretive variation in this traditional expression.

    • Lane · entry 7884
  • قِدَّةٌ

    A piece or portion of a thing.

    The basic nominal sense is extended to a distinct portion or division.

    • Lane · entry 7885
  • قَدَادٌ

    A hedgehog or a jerboa.

    The lexical item is reported with both animal identifications.

    • Lane · entry 7886
  • قُدَادٌ

    A pain in the belly.

    It also occurs in an imprecation wishing this pain upon someone.

    • Lane · entry 7887
  • قَدِيدٌ

    Meat cut into strips or elongated pieces and dried, often after salting.

    The form is a passive-result noun for prepared dried meat.

    • Lane · entry 7888
  • قَدِيدٌ

    A garment or piece of cloth that is slit or torn and old and worn out.

    A specialized descriptive use for deteriorated cloth.

    • Lane · entry 7888
  • قُدَيْدٌ

    A small garment or mat of coarse hair-cloth worn by people of low condition.

    A diminutive term carrying an association with humble or low status.

    • Lane · entry 7889
  • قَدِيدِيُّونَ

    The followers or camp followers of an army, including itinerant craftsmen such as farriers and blacksmiths.

    A dialectal or specialized collective term; variant pronunciations are reported.

    • Lane · entry 7890
  • قَيْدُودٌ

    A she-camel long in the back.

    The source itself reports that this word may instead derive from قَوْد.

    • Lane · entry 7891
  • مَقَدٌّ

    A road or route.

    A figurative formation understood as a way that has been cut or opened.

    • Lane · entry 7892
  • مَقَدٌّ

    The external female genital opening.

    A specialized anatomical usage.

    • Lane · entry 7892
  • مَقَدٌّ

    The part of the back of the neck between the ears.

    The source treats this as a dialectal variant of, or possible error for, مَقَذٌّ.

    • Lane · entry 7892
  • مَقَدٌّ

    An even or level plain.

    A specialized geographical usage synonymous with قَاعٌ.

    • Lane · entry 7892
  • مِقَدٌّ

    An iron instrument used for cutting skin.

    A tool noun derived from the act of cutting skin.

    • Lane · entry 7893
  • مَقَدِّيٌّ

    Wine associated with al-Maqadd, or wine boiled down until reduced to half its original quantity.

    The source reports both a geographical designation and an explanation based on division into halves; pronunciation variants occur.

    • Lane · entry 7895

Cautions

Points that affect how this root should be read.

  • The Quranic verb group is attested in inflected active and passive forms; the public headword is normalized to the Form I perfect citation form قَدَّ.

  • Lane also records قَدْ as a grammatical particle and noun; these uses are kept separate from the lexical cutting branches.

  • The expression شَدِيدُ القِدِّ has a reported ambiguity between a strong bowstring and strength in drawing a bow.

  • The entry قَيْدُودٌ is included because it occurs in the supplied Lane primary material, although that source itself suggests derivation from قَوْد.