Quranic root
ردم
r · d · m
The root centers on closing a breach or gap by putting material into or across it.
The basic image develops into a built barrier made of joined layers, patched or joined fabric, attached speech, and related senses of continuity or persistent covering.
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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.
رَدْم
radm
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
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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 barrier or rampart formed by closing a breach and laying material upon material.
In 18:95, the noun denotes the substantial built barrier placed between the people and Gog and Magog.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:95word 12
“a barrier”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 18:95رَدْمًاa barrier
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 26 Classical meanings
رَدَمَ
To stop up or close a door, entrance, gap, breach, or the like, often by putting one thing upon another.
The closure may be complete; the verb is also used for substantial, though not necessarily total, stopping-up.
- Lane · entry 23015
رَدَمَ
To patch or piece a garment, or to join or sew one part of something to another.
The usage is transitive for repairing or joining; a corresponding passive use is also recorded.
- Lane · entry 23015
رَدَمَ
To make a bow twang by pulling and releasing its string.
Used of causing the bow to produce its characteristic sound.
- Lane · entry 23015
رَدَمَ
To break wind with a sound.
Recorded especially of a camel or an ass, and also used more generally.
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رَدَّمَ
To reconsider and revise one's speech repeatedly in order to rectify and repair its defects.
A figurative Form II usage concerning the repeated correction of an utterance.
- Lane · entry 23016
أَرْدَمَ
To continue, persist, or remain without leaving; to cling to someone.
Used of fever or disease continuing upon a person, and also of clouds or a continuing approach to water.
- Lane · entry 23017
أَرْدَمَ
Of a tree, to become green again after having become dry.
Used of renewed greenness after dryness.
- Lane · entry 23017
أَرْدَمَ
To feel a camel in order to determine whether it is fat.
A specialized transitive use with the camel as the object examined.
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تَرَدَّمَ
To seek out a person's fault, lapse, or embarrassing defect and thereby learn his condition.
A figurative Form V usage involving scrutiny for an error or shortcoming.
- Lane · entry 23018
تَرَدَّمَ
To consume the pasture of a land repeatedly, part after part.
Used of people or a group consuming pasture over successive portions or occasions.
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تَرَدَّمَ
Of a garment or piece of cloth, to become old and worn out, requiring patching.
The verb may be used intransitively as well as transitively in this clothing-related sense.
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تَرَدَّمَ
Of a camel, to incline toward or be attached to its young.
Used with reference to the camel's inclination toward its offspring.
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تَرَدَّمَ
Of a contention or altercation, to become long-lasting and far-extending.
A figurative use describing the prolonged course of a dispute.
- Lane · entry 23018
اِرْتَدَمَ
Of a place, doorway, entrance, gap, or breach, to become stopped up or closed.
An intransitive Form VIII use describing the resulting closed state.
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اِرْتَدَمَ
Of a garment or piece of cloth, to become old, worn out, and patched or pieced.
Reported as an additional clothing-related use.
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اِرْتَدَمَ
To put on, or become clad in, old and worn-out garments.
Used of wearing aged clothing.
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رَدْم
A structure or mass formed by putting and joining parts one upon another, including a heap of fallen wall.
This broader nominal use concerns layered or accumulated material apart from the specifically Quranic rampart.
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رَدْم
A sound, especially the twang or sound of a bow.
A general sense of sound is also specialized to the sound produced by a bow.
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رَدْم
A noisy emission of wind from the anus.
A nominal use corresponding to the verb for breaking wind with a sound.
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رَدْم
A person in whom there is no good.
A figurative application to a man.
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رَدُوم
One who frequently breaks wind with a sound.
An intensive personal designation.
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رَدِيم
An old, worn-out garment or piece of cloth, especially one patched repeatedly or in several places.
The term may describe cloth requiring repair or bearing patches upon patches.
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رَدِيمَة
Two garments or pieces of cloth sewn together.
A dual or paired clothing item, comparable to a joined lining or pair of pieces.
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مُرْدِم
Continuing or persistent.
Used of fever, clouds, or a continuing approach to water, and of disease remaining upon someone.
- Lane · entry 23024
مُتَرَدَّم
A place in a garment or piece of cloth that requires patching, piecing, or repair.
The participle describes a location needing mending or restoration.
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مُتَرَدَّم
Figuratively, a deficiency or matter left to be supplied, joined to what has already been said, or repaired in discourse.
A poetic figurative use extends the imagery of patching or repairing to speech and composition.
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