Quranic root
رشد
r · sh · d
The root centers on taking a straight or rightly directed course, opposed to error and deviation.
From the straightness of a path, the root develops meanings of right guidance, rectitude, sound judgment, maturity, rightly directed persons, and destinations toward which roads lead.
- Maqāyīs · row 2036
- Mufradāt · row 553
- 7
- Quran-attested forms
- 8
- Quran senses
- 19
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
رَشَدَ
rashada
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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.
To take or follow a right way, course, or direction; to be rightly guided.
Used of a road, an affair, or a person's direction in life; the course may include steadfast adherence to what is right.
- Lane · entry 23329
- Mufradāt · row 553
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:186word 17
“(be) led aright”
مُرْشِد
murshid
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
One who directs or guides another to the right way.
An active participle of Form IV, with a guiding or directing object understood from the construction.
- Lane · entry 23331
Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:17word 34
“a guide”
رَشَد
rashad
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 5 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 right way, course, or direction; a right course in an affair.
The noun denotes right direction or a right outcome without requiring a distinction between worldly and otherworldly affairs.
- Lane · entry 23329
- Mufradāt · row 553
Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:10word 16
“(in the) right way”
رُشْد
rushd
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
Rectitude, right guidance, or the right way, opposed to error and deviation.
Used for right direction in religious or general affairs, including a person's being shown or given the right way.
- Lane · entry 23333
- Mufradāt · row 553
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:256word 7
“the right (path)”
Maturity of intellect, sound judgment, and capacity for proper management of affairs.
In the Quranic property context, it concerns recognizing an orphan's maturity and discretion sufficient for responsible management.
- Lane · entry 23333
- Mufradāt · row 553
Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:6word 10
“sound judgement”
رَشَاد
rashād
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
Right procedure or the adoption and pursuit of a right way, course, or direction.
May describe right conduct in a road or an affair; the Quranic occurrences present it as the right course to which one guides another.
- Lane · entry 23338
Selected Quran examples
Quran 40:38word 8
“the right”
رَشِيد
rashīd
- Part of speech
- Adjective / Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 3 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.
Right-minded, rightly directed, or soundly conducted.
May qualify a person as following a right course or an affair as soundly directed; the Quran applies it to both kinds of subject.
- Lane · entry 23340
- Mufradāt · row 553
Selected Quran examples
Quran 11:78word 26
“right-minded”
Quran 11:97word 10
“was right”
رَاشِد
rāshid
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
One who takes or follows a right course; rightly guided.
The supplied Quran occurrence is plural; the public headword is normalized to the singular active-participial citation form.
- Lane · entry 23340
- Mufradāt · row 553
Selected Quran examples
Quran 49:7word 28
“the guided ones”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:186يَرْشُدُونَ(be) led aright
- 2:256ٱلرُّشْدُthe right (path)
- 4:6رُشْدًۭاsound judgement
- 7:146ٱلرُّشْدِ(of) the righteousness
- 11:78رَّشِيدٌۭright-minded
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 12 Classical meanings
رَشَدَ
To hold a right belief or be orthodox.
A religious application of taking the right course, contrasted with error or deviation.
- Lane · entry 23329
رَشَاد
Right belief or orthodoxy.
A religious extension of right procedure, contrasted with error and deviation.
- Lane · entry 23338
رَشَّدَ
To pronounce or make someone rightly directed or right-minded.
A causative Form II construction, including the use of a judge declaring someone to be rightly guided or orthodox.
- Lane · entry 23330
أَرْشَدَ
To cause someone to hold a right belief or become orthodox.
The religious application of the Form IV causative construction.
- Lane · entry 23331
اِسْتَرْشَدَ
To seek or ask for direction to the right way.
May mean seeking to follow a right course oneself or requesting direction to it from another person.
- Lane · entry 23332
رِشْدَة
A mode, manner, or act of right procedure.
A nominal use related to right procedure or conduct.
- Lane · entry 23335
رِشْدَة
Legitimate or trueborn descent; an offspring of valid marriage.
Used in idioms contrasting lawful birth with illegitimate birth, and in expressions about claiming a child as one's own.
- Lane · entry 23335
حَبُّ الرَّشَاد
A name for garden cress or its seed, and related cress plants.
A botanical and dialectal use; in the cited Iraqi usage it is equated with الحُرْف.
- Lane · entry 23338
الرَّشِيد
The Director to the right way; one who appoints or ordains well and whose regulations reach their proper aims.
A divine epithet, distinct from the ordinary human or situational adjective meaning rightly directed.
- Lane · entry 23339
أُمُّ رَاشِد
A surname for the female rat or mouse.
A fixed lexical surname or epithet.
- Lane · entry 23340
أَرْشَد
More or most direct, especially of a road.
Used in the expression الطريق الأرشد, the more or most direct road.
- Lane · entry 23341
المَرَاشِد
The right places toward which roads lead; destinations of roads.
A plural form reported without a singular.
- Lane · entry 23342
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
A reported attempt to restrict رَشَد to matters of the afterlife and رُشْد to worldly matters is not consistent with the recorded Arabic usage or Quranic readings.
The public verb headword is the classical perfect citation form رَشَدَ, although the supplied Quran occurrence is an imperfect plural form.