Quranic root
رغد
r · gh · d
The root centers on spacious, pleasant abundance, with a contrasting branch describing mixing, weakening, confusion, or bodily disturbance.
The primary semantic development concerns ample and easy livelihood, extending to abundant herbage, provision, and comfortable circumstances. A distinct lexical branch concerns commingling and altered bodily condition, with figurative extensions to uncertainty and weakness.
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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.
رَغَدٌ
raghadun
- 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.
Ample, plentiful, unstraitened, and therefore easy or pleasant; abundance enjoyed without privation.
In the Quranic occurrences it appears as رَغَدًا, an accusative adverbial expression used with eating or enjoyment in the sense “freely” and with the arrival of provision in the sense “abundantly” or “in abundance.”
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Selected Quran examples
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 3 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 18 Classical meanings
رَغِدَ
To be or become ample in means or circumstances—unstraitened, plentiful, easy, and pleasant.
Used especially of one’s life or condition. The intensive form اِرْغَلَّدَ is reported with the same basic meaning in an intensified sense.
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- Lane · entry 23805
رَغِدَ
To flag, slacken, or be remiss in an affair.
Attested in the negative construction لا يَرْغُدُ, “he will not flag or be remiss.”
- Lane · entry 23801
رَغِدَ
To prepare or eat رَغِيدَةٌ, a fresh-milk preparation.
Reported as an apparent usage of the verb in a specialized or dialectal notice.
- Lane · entry 23801
أَرْغَدَ
To become abundant in livelihood, herbage, goods, conveniences, or comforts.
Describes people or their circumstances when they enter a state of plentiful and easy living.
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أَرْغَدَ
To make someone’s life ample, easy, and pleasant.
A causative construction in which a person or agent makes another’s life plentiful and unstraitened.
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أَرْغَدَ
To let livestock pasture freely where they please.
Used transitively of allowing cattle or other livestock to graze without being confined.
- Lane · entry 23802
اِسْتَرْغَدَ
To find life ample in its means, unstraitened, easy, and pleasant.
Used with life or circumstances as the object of an evaluative experience.
- Lane · entry 23803
اِرْغَادَّ
To become commingled, one part with another; of milk, to become mixed before it is completely thickened, or of anything, to become mixed or confused.
The primary concrete use concerns the incomplete mixing or thickening of milk and similar commingling of parts.
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اِرْغَادَّ
To become confused or doubtful in one’s judgment, not knowing how to express it.
A figurative use describing uncertainty or inability to formulate an opinion.
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اِرْغَادَّ
To sleep without fully satisfying one’s drowsiness and awaken heavy or unrested.
Describes an incomplete or unsatisfactory sleep resulting in heaviness on waking.
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اِرْغَادَّ
To become angry, changing color from anger or refusing to answer.
The reported descriptions include either visible change of color or angry silence.
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اِرْغَادَّ
To become sick, depressed, weakened, or oppressed by illness, including the onset of pain and languor.
The lexical descriptions vary as to severity and physical wasting; the common thread is a weakened or depressed bodily condition.
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اِرْغِيدَادٌ
Languidness or weakness affecting the eye, ear, or sight.
Used specifically of weakened sensory faculties.
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رَغِيدَةٌ
A preparation of fresh milk, often boiled and mixed with flour and dates; also fresh butter or a piece or portion of it.
The lexical item is reported with several closely related food senses, including the prepared milk dish and fresh butter.
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رُغَيْدَاءُ
The material taken from wheat and thrown away.
A specialized term for discarded wheat matter.
- Lane · entry 23810
مَرْغَدَةْ
A place abounding in herbage, such as a meadow or garden.
A place-name or common noun for a verdant, grass-rich location.
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مُرْغَادٌّ
Milk that has become commingled, one part with another, before it is completely thickened; by extension, anything mixed or confused.
A participial description of the result of incomplete commingling.
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مُرْغَادٌّ
A person confused or doubtful in judgment who does not know how to express an opinion.
A figurative participial use derived from the sense of confused or mixed condition.
- Lane · entry 23814
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic group carries both adjective and noun analyses in QAC; its supplied Quranic surface form is the accusative رَغَدًا, used adverbially in all three occurrences.