Quranic root
ركد
r · k · d
The root centers on stillness: movement or activity comes to rest, and something remains settled or fixed in place.
This core extends from still water, wind, ships, and people to equilibrium, subsiding heat or effervescence, and nouns for fixed objects and resting places. Figurative extensions associate settled fullness or a constant supply with the same notion.
- Maqāyīs · row 2123
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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.
رَاكِد
rākid
- 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.
Still, motionless, or stationary.
The attested Quranic plural describes ships left motionless on the sea when the wind is stilled; the participial sense is of something remaining fixed rather than moving.
- Mufradāt · row 577
- Lane · entry 24312
Selected Quran examples
Quran 42:33word 6
“motionless”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 42:33رَوَاكِدَmotionless
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
رَكَدَ
To become still, motionless, fixed, or stationary.
Used of water, wind, ships—including a ship becoming aground—and people; of people, it can also include becoming silent.
- Lane · entry 24308
رَكَدَ
To subside or cease active motion: expressed grape juice stops effervescing, and heat abates.
These are specialized applications of the verb to grape juice and heat.
- Lane · entry 24308
رَكَدَ
To be or become balanced, reaching equilibrium.
Said of a balance or scales.
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رَكَدَ
Of a pulley sheave, to become fixed; in another usage, to turn or revolve.
The two applications are reported as contrary uses of the verb.
- Lane · entry 24308
رَكَدَ
Of the sun, to reach its midday height or remain overhead as though it did not leave its place.
This is a conventional description of the sun at or around midday.
- Lane · entry 24308
رَكَدَ
Figuratively, for good fortune to cease and circumstances to begin gradually declining.
Used in the expression for a people's wind becoming still, with the wind representing their good fortune and affairs.
- Lane · entry 24308
أَرْكَدَ
To render something still or motionless.
The cited causative use is applied to water and similar things.
- Lane · entry 24309
تَرَاكَدَ
To become still or motionless by degrees.
This is the gradual-development use of the Form VI verb.
- Lane · entry 24310
رَكُود
Full, filled, or heavy.
Said of a bowl or large serving vessel.
- Lane · entry 24311
رَكُود
Constant and unceasing in milk supply.
Said of a she-camel.
- Lane · entry 24311
الرَّوَاكِد
The three stones on which a cooking pot is set.
This plural noun is associated with the stones remaining fixed in their places.
- Lane · entry 24312
مَرَاكِد
Places where a person or thing remains still; also depressed or hollow parts of the earth.
The first sense is the plural of مَرْكَد; the second applies to low-lying depressions in the ground.
- Lane · entry 24313
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic occurrence is a plural form, while the public headword is normalized to the supported singular active-participle citation form.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
maqayis:row:2123 reports, conditionally ('if sound'), an anomalous usage of تَرَاكَدَ involving seated maidens; its authenticity and relation to the normal root development are explicitly uncertain, so it is not assigned a public sense.