Quranic root
رضو
r · ḍ · w
The root centers on willing acceptance, contentment, and favorable approval, whether directed toward a person, thing, decree, or conduct.
The lexical family extends from being pleased or approving to causing satisfaction, reciprocal agreement, passive pleasing, and intensified or divine approval; رضوان is described in the Quran-focused evidence as abundant approval, especially divine approval.
- Mufradāt · row 557
- Lane · entry 23546
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- 10
- Quran-attested forms
- 12
- Quran senses
- 73
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
رَضِيَ
raḍiya
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 38 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 be pleased with, content with, accept, or approve a person or thing.
Used with constructions such as رَضِيَ عَنْهُ, رَضِيَ عَلَيْهِ, رَضِيَهُ, and رَضِيَ بِهِ; the object may be a person or a thing.
- Lane · entry 23546
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:144word 9
“you will be pleased with”
Quran 39:7word 13
“He likes it”
Of God, to approve a servant and be well pleased with him on account of his obedience.
In divine-human formulations, divine approval is explained in relation to carrying out commanded acts and refraining from prohibited acts.
- Lane · entry 23546
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:119word 17
“is pleased”
Of a servant, to be content with what God has decreed or with the recompense granted by Him.
This is the human side of the Quranic divine-human formula of reciprocal pleasure and approval.
- Lane · entry 23546
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:119word 20
“and they are pleased”
أَرْضَى
ʾarḍā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- 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.
To make someone pleased, content, or satisfied; to please or satisfy someone.
A causative construction taking the person pleased or satisfied as its object; it may also mean giving someone what will satisfy them.
- Lane · entry 23549
Selected Quran examples
Quran 9:8word 11
“They satisfy you”
Quran 9:62word 9
“they should please Him”
تَرَاضَى
tarāḍā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VI
- Form
- VI
- 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 reach mutual agreement or consent; for each party to be pleased with or approve the arrangement.
A reciprocal construction describing agreement among two or more parties, often with ب or بينهم.
- Lane · entry 23551
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:232word 12
“they agree”
Quran 4:24word 33
“you mutually agree”
اِرْتَضَى
āirtaḍā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
- VIII
- 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.
To approve, accept, or choose something or someone as suitable.
The Quranic uses concern approval or selection by a superior or authoritative subject.
- Lane · entry 23546
Selected Quran examples
Quran 24:55word 20
“He has approved”
Quran 72:27word 3
“He has approved”
Quran 21:28word 11
“He approves”
مَرْضَاة
marḍāh
- Part of speech
- Verbal 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.
Pleasure, approval, or the state of being pleased.
A verbal noun used in expressions concerning the pleasure or approval sought from another, especially in the Quranic contexts represented here.
- Lane · entry 23562
Selected Quran examples
مَرْضِيّ
marḍiyy
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- 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.
Found pleasing, acceptable, or approved.
A passive participial adjective applied to a person or thing regarded favorably; the feminine Quran form is included under this citation form.
- Lane · entry 23564
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 19:55word 9
“pleasing”
Quran 89:28word 5
“and pleasing”
رَاضٍ
rāḍin
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
Pleased, content, or satisfied.
An active participial adjective for one who is pleased with or approves something.
- Lane · entry 23561
Selected Quran examples
Quran 88:9word 2
“satisfied”
Quran 89:28word 4
“well pleased”
Pleasant or pleasing.
In the construction عِيشَةٌ رَاضِيَةٌ, the adjective describes a state or quality of life found pleasing rather than a subject experiencing pleasure.
- Lane · entry 23561
Selected Quran examples
Quran 69:21word 4
“pleasant”
Quran 101:7word 4
“pleasant”
رَضِيّ
raḍiyy
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
رِضْوَان
riḍwān
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 13 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.
Abundant or intensified pleasure and approval; in Quranic usage, especially divine pleasure.
The Quran-focused evidence treats رضوان as a heightened form of رضا and particularly associates it with approval proceeding from God.
- Lane · entry 23558
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Selected Quran examples
تَرَاضٍ
tarāḍin
- Part of speech
- Verbal 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.
Mutual agreement, consent, or approval between parties.
A verbal noun denoting reciprocal satisfaction with an arrangement or transaction.
- Lane · entry 23551
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:233word 38
“mutual consent”
Quran 4:29word 14
“mutual consent”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:120تَرْضَىٰwill be pleased
- 2:144تَرْضَىٰهَا ۚyou will be pleased with
- 2:207مَرْضَاتِpleasure
- 2:232تَرَٰضَوْا۟they agree
- 2:233تَرَاضٍۢmutual consent
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 14 Classical meanings
رَضِيَ
To choose or prefer something.
A reported extension of being pleased with something to selecting it in preference to alternatives.
- Lane · entry 23546
رِضًى
Consent or permission, especially consent inferred from conduct.
In legal usage concerning a woman's consent to marriage, silence may testify to permission because permission indicates approval.
- Lane · entry 23546
- Lane · entry 23555
رَضَوْتُهُ
To surpass another in being pleased, content, or satisfied.
A specialized Form I construction with a person as the object; its verbal noun is also related to مُرَاضَاة and رِضَاء.
- Lane · entry 23546
رَاضَى
To agree, consent, accord, or be of one mind with another.
The Form III reciprocal-agreement construction is kept distinct from the Quran-attested Form VI entry.
- Lane · entry 23548
تَرَضَّى
To seek to please, content, or satisfy someone.
The Form V construction can also describe pleasing or satisfying someone after effort or exertion.
- Lane · entry 23550
اِسْتَرْضَى
To ask, beg, or petition someone to please or satisfy one, or to provide what will satisfy one.
A Form X request for another person's satisfaction or approval.
- Lane · entry 23553
رُضًى
The name of an idol-temple associated with the tribe of Rabīʿah.
A proper-name use preserved as a distinct lexical item from the ordinary noun of contentment.
- Lane · entry 23554
رِضًى
The state of being pleased, content, satisfied, or approving; contentment or approval.
A verbal noun also used substantivally, including in expressions meaning with someone's pleasure or approval.
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رِضًى
Pleasing or acceptable; a person or group with whom one is pleased.
An infinitive used adjectivally in the sense of a passive participle.
- Lane · entry 23555
رِضْوَان
The treasurer, keeper, or guardian of Paradise.
A Classical proper-title or personal-name use distinct from the Quranic abstract noun meaning abundant approval.
- Lane · entry 23558
رَضِيّ
Responsible, accountable, or answerable.
A reported Classical lexical use, given as synonymous with ضَامِنٌ; the evidence records a variant reading in some copies.
- Lane · entry 23560
رَضِيّ
Loving, a lover, or a friend.
A distinct Classical adjective or noun use.
- Lane · entry 23560
رَضِيّ
Obeying or obedient.
A distinct Classical adjective use.
- Lane · entry 23560
مَرْضَاة
A cause, means, or occasion of pleasure or approval.
A derived noun meaning something that brings about رضى, distinct from the verbal-noun sense of pleasure itself.
- Lane · entry 23562
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic form رَضِيًّا at 19:6 is retained as a separate public form, but the supplied lexical evidence does not securely assign its contextual gloss “pleasing” to that exact headword: the direct رَضِيّ entry supplies other Classical senses, while the explicit passive-participle explanation concerns مَرْضِيّ and مَرْضُوّ.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The QAC form group qac-form:rDw:raDiy~ at 19:6 is contextually glossed as “pleasing,” but no supplied Lane or Mufradat passage unambiguously explains that exact lexeme in this Quranic use. It is therefore displayed without an asserted numbered sense rather than assigning a meaning from the neighboring forms مَرْضِيّ or رَاضٍ.