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Quranic root

سعد

s · ʿ · d

The root denotes good fortune, welfare, and joy, in contrast with ill fortune and misery.

Its central idea develops from personal felicity and favorable circumstances to auspicious days and stars, divine enabling, mutual assistance, and several names based on benefit, favorable form, or resemblance.

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Quran-attested forms
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Quran senses
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Quran occurrences

Forms in the Quran

The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.

سُعِدَ

suʿida

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.

  1. To be made prosperous, fortunate, happy, or felicitous.

    Quranic passive Form I usage; in 11:108 it describes those granted felicity, in contrast with the wretched, with felicity understood as divine enabling to attain good.

    • Lane · entry 41150
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    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 11:108word 3

    were glad

سَعِيد

saʿīd

Part of speech
Adjective / substantive
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.

  1. Prosperous, fortunate, happy; a person who enjoys or attains felicity.

    Used substantively in the Quranic contrast with شَقِيّ (wretched); the fullest felicity is associated with Paradise, while the term can concern religious and worldly welfare.

    • Lane · entry 41163
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    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 11:105word 10

    and (the) glad

Occurrences in the Quran

Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.

  • 11:105وَسَعِيدٌۭand (the) glad
  • 11:108سُعِدُوا۟were glad
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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 53 Classical meanings
  • سَعِدَ

    To be or become prosperous, fortunate, happy, or felicitous.

    Intransitive Form I usage, contrasted with شَقِيَ, with respect to religion or worldly affairs.

    • Lane · entry 41150
  • سَعَدَ

    To become auspicious, fortunate, or favorable.

    Used of a day, star, or asterism, in opposition to becoming unlucky or inauspicious.

    • Lane · entry 41150
  • سَعَدَ

    For water to come naturally upon the land and flow over its surface.

    Describes water arriving unsought, without a machine raising it for irrigation.

    • Lane · entry 41150
  • سَاعَدَ

    To aid, assist, or help another.

    Form III assistance in any manner or circumstance; the expression can suggest two people joining their efforts. One reported extension applies it to diligently carrying out God's command and good pleasure.

    • Lane · entry 41151
  • إِسْعَادٌ

    To assist another in lamentation and weeping for the dead.

    A specialized use in mourning; it is the assistance referred to in the report that prohibits such إسعاد.

    • Lane · entry 41151
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  • أَسْعَدَ

    To render someone prosperous, fortunate, happy, or felicitous; to increase his good fortune.

    Causative Form IV, commonly with God as the subject.

    • Lane · entry 41152
  • أَسْعَدَ

    To aid, assist, accommodate, or dispose someone toward the right course.

    An alternative causative use attributed to a classical authority.

    • Lane · entry 41152
  • تَسَعَّدَ

    To seek after the plant called سَعْدَان.

    Form V plant-related usage.

    • Lane · entry 41153
  • اِسْتَسْعَدَ

    To deem or reckon someone or something fortunate, auspicious, or lucky.

    May be constructed with بِهِ or with a circumstance such as seeing someone.

    • Lane · entry 41154
  • اِسْتَسْعَدَ

    To become fortunate by means of someone or something.

    A Form X use expressing the source or means through which good fortune is obtained.

    • Lane · entry 41154
  • اِسْتَسْعَدَ

    To seek good fortune through someone or something.

    A Form X use focused on pursuing auspiciousness rather than merely judging something fortunate.

    • Lane · entry 41154
  • اِسْتَسْعَدَ

    To desire or demand another's aid or assistance.

    A separate Form X construction with a person as the requested source of help.

    • Lane · entry 41154
  • سَعْد

    Prosperity, good fortune, auspiciousness, or favorable outcome.

    Used as an abstract noun or simple substantive, equivalent to يُمْنٌ; it can also serve as the verbal noun of the Form I verbs.

    • Lane · entry 41155
  • سَعْد

    Prosperous, fortunate, or auspicious.

    An epithet applied especially to a day, star, or asterism, with inflectional use differing according to the construction.

    • Lane · entry 41155
  • سَعْد

    A name for Venus and Mercury and for a group of ten named asterisms, several of them lunar mansions.

    The named stars include سعد الذابح, سعد بلع, سعد السعود, and سعد الأخبية, among others; the naming is associated with auspiciousness.

    • Lane · entry 41155
  • سَعْد

    The name of an object of idolatrous worship associated with the sons of Milkān.

    A proper name referring to a pre-Islamic cult object.

    • Lane · entry 41155
  • بِنْتُ سَعْدٍ

    The virginity or hymen of a girl or woman.

    A metonymic expression.

    • Lane · entry 41155
  • أَسَعْدٌ أَمْ

    A fortunate or liked thing, or an unfortunate or disliked thing.

    A proverbial expression used when asking whether an event is good or bad, and by extension in concern for a relative.

    • Lane · entry 41155
  • سَعْدَيْكَ

    Aiding you repeatedly; repeated readiness to serve or support your cause.

    Fixed in لَبَّيْكَ وَسَعْدَيْكَ and related formulas, with the dual form expressing repetition.

    • Lane · entry 41155
  • سَعْد

    The third part or gore of the body of a shirt.

    A garment term; its diminutive denotes a fourth part.

    • Lane · entry 41155
  • سُعْد

    A sweet-smelling root or plant used in perfume and medicine.

    A collocational or collective plant noun, including the cyperus-like rhizome distinguished from related plants by some authorities.

    • Lane · entry 41156
  • سُعُد

    A particular kind of dates.

    A specialized plural or collective noun.

    • Lane · entry 41157
  • سَعْدِيَّة

    A kind of mail coat or garment fabric associated with a place called السَّعْدُ or with Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ.

    Used attributively in expressions for particular garments.

    • Lane · entry 41159
  • سَعْدَان

    A pasture plant, one of the best fodders for camels, whose fresh growth sweetens their milk.

    A prickly herb or leguminous plant of the plains; the proverb مَرْعًى وَلَا كَالسَّعْدَانِ praises exceptional excellence.

    • Lane · entry 41160
  • سَعْدَان

    The prickles of a palm tree.

    A specialized nominal use distinct from the pasture plant.

    • Lane · entry 41160
  • سُعْدَانَ

    Obedience to God or aid rendered to His cause.

    A fixed accusative expression used with سُبْحَانَهُ, as in سُبْحَانَهُ وَسُعْدَانَهُ.

    • Lane · entry 41161
  • سَعْدَانَة

    The nipple, the areola around it, or the part surrounding the nipple.

    An anatomical term motivated by resemblance to the prickly head of the سعدان plant.

    • Lane · entry 41162
  • سَعْدَانَة

    The knot of a sandal's thong beneath the sole, next to the ground.

    Also called رُغْبَانَةٌ.

    • Lane · entry 41162
  • سَعْدَانَة

    The knot beneath the pan of a balance.

    The plural سَعْدَانَاتٌ denotes the corresponding knots of the scale.

    • Lane · entry 41162
  • سَعْدَانَات

    Nail-like structures in the lower parts of certain tendons or sinews.

    Used in the plural for the structures in the ʿujāyah region.

    • Lane · entry 41162
  • سَعْدَانَة

    The callous rounded protuberance on a camel's breast, on which it rests when lying down.

    The name is explained by the protuberance's rounded form.

    • Lane · entry 41162
  • سَعْدَانَة

    The anus, or its sphincter.

    A specialized anatomical use.

    • Lane · entry 41162
  • سَعْدَانَة

    The part of a mare's vulva into which the penis enters.

    A specialized anatomical use.

    • Lane · entry 41162
  • سَعْدَانَة

    A pigeon, or the name of a particular pigeon.

    A specialized zoological noun.

    • Lane · entry 41162
  • سَعِيد

    A river, rivulet, or irrigation channel that waters the land adjoining it.

    It may denote a small watercourse or a channel carrying irrigation water to cultivated land.

    • Lane · entry 41163
  • سَعَادَة

    Prosperity, good fortune, happiness, or felicity.

    An abstract noun covering religious and worldly felicity; worldly felicity may be psychological, bodily, or due to external circumstances, while the greatest felicity is otherworldly.

    • Lane · entry 41165
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  • سُعُودَة

    Prosperousness, auspiciousness, or luckiness.

    Used especially of a day, star, or asterism, in opposition to نُحُوسَةٌ.

    • Lane · entry 41166
  • السَّعِيدَة

    The name of a temple to which members of the Rabīʿah tribe made pilgrimage in pre-Islamic times.

    A proper name associated with a sanctuary at Mount Uḥud.

    • Lane · entry 41167
  • سَعِيدِيَّة

    A kind of Yemeni garment or dress.

    Used of garments of the burūd type and of a particular ḥullah; the name is explained either geographically or by association with Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ.

    • Lane · entry 41169
  • سَاعِد

    The forearm, or in some usage the upper arm, of a person or animal.

    The part between the wrist and elbow, or between the elbow and shoulder according to dialect; the plural is سَوَاعِدُ.

    • Lane · entry 41170
  • سَاعِد

    An armlet worn on the forearm, made of iron, brass, or gold.

    A derived object noun from the bodily sense.

    • Lane · entry 41170
  • سَاعِدَا الطَّائِر

    The two wings of a bird.

    A figurative anatomical extension of the arm term.

    • Lane · entry 41170
  • السَّوَاعِد

    The anterior or primary feathers of a bird's wing.

    Used in descriptions of a bird's strength or wing structure.

    • Lane · entry 41170
  • سَاعِد

    A chief or leading person upon whom others rely.

    A figurative use based on the arm's assisting function.

    • Lane · entry 41170
  • سَوَاعِد

    Channels through which water runs to a river, sea, or other watercourse.

    May also denote the channels or outlets from which the water of a well or its springs issues.

    • Lane · entry 41170
  • سَوَاعِد

    The medullary cavities or ducts through which marrow runs in a bone.

    A figurative anatomical plural use.

    • Lane · entry 41170
  • سَاعِد

    A duct conveying milk to the teat or breast, or the opening from which milk issues.

    Used of the ducts in an animal's udder and, by extension, in a woman's breast.

    • Lane · entry 41170
  • ذُو سَوَاعِد

    An affair having several modes of execution and several ways out of it.

    Fixed figurative expression describing an undertaking with multiple courses or exits.

    • Lane · entry 41170
  • سَاعِدَة

    The bone of the shank.

    A specialized anatomical noun.

    • Lane · entry 41171
  • سَاعِدَة

    A piece of wood set up to support a pulley.

    A technical object noun.

    • Lane · entry 41171
  • سَاعِدَة

    A name for the lion.

    A proper or epithet-like animal name with irregular declension.

    • Lane · entry 41171
  • أَسْعَد

    More or most prosperous, fortunate, or happy.

    A comparative or superlative epithet applied to a man; its feminine counterpart is reported as سُعْدَى.

    • Lane · entry 41172
  • أَسْعَد

    A cracking or scab-like skin disease of a camel that makes it weak and decrepit.

    A specialized veterinary term, unrelated to the comparative use except in form.

    • Lane · entry 41172

Cautions

Points that affect how this root should be read.

  • The displayed Quranic verb follows the QAC passive identification سُعِدَ; the Lane entry also records سَعِدُوا as an alternate reading at the same Quran passage.

  • Lane's Quran references within the star-name and liturgical discussions are treated as attestations or examples of those Classical expressions, not as additional modern Quran word locations.