Quranic root
قيض
q · y · ḍ
The supplied lexical evidence centers on the hard outer shell of an egg, a covering that takes hold of what it encloses; in the Quranic Form II construction, this image motivates assigning an associate that takes hold of a person.
The shell image is extended to appointing, preparing, or bringing one person or thing into relation with another. The wider lexical record also preserves separate branches involving cleaving, equivalence, substitution, and exchange.
- Lane · entry 9228
- Lane · entry 9222
- Mufradāt · row 1223
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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.
قَيَّضَ
qayyaḍa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
- II
- 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.
To ordain, appoint, prepare, or bring a person or thing for someone; in the Quranic construction, to assign an associate or companion that takes hold of the person.
Used with لِـ for the person for whom someone or something is appointed. The Quranic usage includes associates and a devil appointed so as to gain possession or control, expressed through the image of an egg-shell taking hold of the egg.
- Lane · entry 9222
- Mufradāt · row 1223
Selected Quran examples
Quran 41:25word 1
“And We have destined”
Quran 43:36word 6
“We appoint”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 20 Classical meanings
قَاضَ
To cleave, break, or rend asunder; to crack a glass vessel without separating its parts; and, in a dialectal usage, to demolish or throw down a building.
Used transitively and intransitively. It may describe an egg becoming cleft, a tooth falling from its root, or similar breaking and separation phenomena.
- Lane · entry 9221
قَاضَ
To hollow out or dig a well in rock; to be dug.
Used of the excavation of a well or similar hollowing.
- Lane · entry 9221
قَاضَ
To liken or assimilate one person or thing to another.
Used with بِـ to express the person or thing to which another is likened.
- Lane · entry 9221
قَايَضَ
To barter or exchange one commodity or thing for another.
The exchange is reciprocal in effect: one party gives an item and takes another in its place.
- Lane · entry 9223
تَقَيَّضَ
To break into pieces; of a wall, to fall into ruins or break down.
Used of eggs, glass vessels, walls, and similar objects. This is distinct in form from the Quranic Form II verb.
- Lane · entry 9224
تَقَيَّضَ
To become ordained, appointed, or prepared for someone.
An intransitive or reflexive construction describing something becoming assigned or made available for a person.
- Lane · entry 9224
تَقَيَّضَ
To resemble another person.
The source attests the construction with a person as object, including the expression ‘to resemble his father’; the meaning is not restricted to fathers.
- Lane · entry 9224
تَقَايَضَ
To barter or exchange commodities mutually.
Used of two parties exchanging with each other; it is the reciprocal counterpart of barter.
- Lane · entry 9225
- Lane · entry 9223
انْقَاضَ
To crack or split, especially without complete separation; by extension, to fall into pieces, collapse, or split lengthwise.
Of an egg or glass bottle, it may crack without splitting apart. Of a wall, tooth, or well, the sources report variants including cracking, falling, splitting lengthwise, or collapsing.
- Lane · entry 9226
اقْتَاضَ
To extirpate or destroy utterly.
A transitive Form VIII usage describing complete destruction.
- Lane · entry 9227
اقْتَاضَ
To receive or take something in exchange.
A separate Form VIII exchange usage, comparable to taking something by way of compensation or substitution.
- Lane · entry 9227
قَيْضٌ
The hard upper shell or covering of an egg; also the shell when cracked into pieces or left after the young bird or fluid has gone out.
Refers specifically to the outer covering of an egg and its broken or emptied state.
- Lane · entry 9228
قَيْضٌ
A compensation, substitute, equivalent, or thing given, received, or put in place of another.
The same noun may describe two persons or things that are alike or mutually suitable as substitutes, and something equivalent to another.
- Lane · entry 9228
قِيضَةٌ
A small piece of bone.
A nominal usage with the plural form reported separately in the lexical evidence.
- Lane · entry 9229
قَيِّضٌ
A barterer or exchanger of commodities.
A personal noun for one who exchanges goods.
- Lane · entry 9230
مَقِيضٌ
A place containing an egg-shell or the outer part of an egg called قَيْض.
A place noun associated with the shell or outer covering of an egg.
- Lane · entry 9232
مَقِيضَةٌ
An egg that has been cleft or split.
A descriptive construction applied to an egg that has opened or split.
- Lane · entry 9232
مَقِيضَةٌ
A well abounding in water, understood as having been hollowed out or cleft.
A descriptive construction applied to a well in relation to its excavation or hollowed condition.
- Lane · entry 9232
المُقْتَاض
One who gives or receives something in exchange.
Used of the party involved in bartering, especially the receiver of an exchanged item.
- Lane · entry 9233
مُنْقَاضَةٌ
Cracked without being split apart, especially an egg or glass vessel.
A descriptive form for an egg or glass bottle with a crack that does not divide it completely; variant analyses of related forms are reported in the lexical tradition.
- Lane · entry 9234
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied Maqayis dataset has no matched entry; the root orientation is therefore based on the directly supplied Lane and Mufradat evidence.
Variant Classical descriptions distinguish some Form V and Form VII fracture usages differently; those alternatives are retained in the relevant Classical entries rather than imposed as an absolute contrast.