Quranic root
سدد
s · d · d
The root centers on closing or filling a gap and thereby making something firm, complete, and properly aligned.
From sealing a breach, the root develops meanings of barrier, stopper, and obstruction; figuratively it extends to supplying a lack and to rightness or sound direction, as though there were no defect or gap.
- Maqāyīs · row 2390
- Mufradāt · row 673
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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.
سَدِيد
sadīd
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- 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.
Right, sound, and properly directed; specifically, of speech, correct and appropriate.
In the Quran, the adjective qualifies قول, meaning speech that is right, sound, or appropriate.
- Lane · entry 40639
Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:9word 15
“appropriate”
Quran 33:70word 8
“right”
سَدّ
sadd
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
A barrier, partition, or obstruction that closes a passage or separates things; a dam or rampart.
The Quranic noun denotes a physical barrier, including the barrier associated with the two mountains, and figurative barriers placed before and behind a person. The Quranic occurrences include both singular and dual forms.
- Lane · entry 40629
- Mufradāt · row 673
Selected Quran examples
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 4:9سَدِيدًاappropriate
- 18:93ٱلسَّدَّيْنِthe two mountains
- 18:94سَدًّۭاa barrier
- 33:70سَدِيدًۭاright
- 36:9سَدًّۭاa 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 29 Classical meanings
سَدَّ
To close or stop up an opening, passage, or gap; to obstruct or bar something, and to repair and make firm a breach.
Also used figuratively of obstructing a horizon or what lies behind something, and of preventing speech.
- Lane · entry 40623
سَدَّ
To fill a vacancy, supply a need, or sustain life and strength.
Used of supplying what is lacking, including satisfying part of a hungry person's need.
- Lane · entry 40623
سَدَّهُ
To attribute or impute a fault to someone; to accuse or charge him with it.
- Lane · entry 40623
سَدَّ
To become right, direct, or properly ordered; of a person, to pursue, seek, or hit what is right in speech or action.
This intransitive use describes a saying, affair, action, bodily faculty, or person taking the correct direction or course.
- Lane · entry 40623
سَدَّدَ
To fill a vessel or trough.
- Lane · entry 40624
سَدَّدَ
To annul or neutralize an opponent's statements while opposing him.
The use concerns countering everything said by an opposing party.
- Lane · entry 40624
سَدَّدَ
To direct or aim an arrow or spear toward a target; by extension, to teach the art of shooting.
The object is an implement directed toward a person, game, or other target.
- Lane · entry 40624
سَدَّدَ
To direct, adapt, accommodate, or dispose someone or something toward what is right; to manage property appropriately.
The use includes teaching a companion right conduct, acting well with property or cattle, and giving camels access to suitable pasture.
- Lane · entry 40624
اِنْسَدَّ
To become closed or stopped up, or to become repaired and firm after a breach or opening has been sealed.
The use may describe an interstice, gap, or the punctures in a skin becoming closed.
- Lane · entry 40627
سَدّ
A fault or defect that obstructs a person's functioning, including blindness, deafness, dumbness, or a defect that prevents speech.
Used figuratively for a defect that closes the mouth or otherwise impedes normal activity.
- Lane · entry 40629
سَدّ
A she-camel used by a hunter as a screen or concealment from game.
A specialized hunting expression.
- Lane · entry 40629
سَدّ
Shade, shelter, cover, or protection used as a screen.
The meaning is figurative and includes cover behind which a person lies in wait.
- Lane · entry 40629
سَدّ
A covered basket or container made of twigs.
The lexical item may refer to a basket of the type called سَلَّة, with its covers.
- Lane · entry 40629
سُدّ
A swarm of locusts or a mass of cloud that obstructs or fills the horizon.
The word may describe either locusts blocking the horizon by their multitude or a dark, elevated cloud formation.
- Lane · entry 40630
سُدّ
A valley, especially a stony or rocky valley in which water remains for some time.
- Lane · entry 40630
سُدّ
The departure or loss of sight.
- Lane · entry 40630
سُدَّة
A disease or obstruction in the nose or body that blocks respiration or the passage of bodily fluids or food.
The term may refer generally to an obstruction in a bodily passage.
- Lane · entry 40633
سُدَّة
A vestibule, porch, covered space, or portico before a door; also the door or gate itself and, figuratively, a means of access or communication.
The meaning varies between a covered area before a house, the door or gate, and a portico of a large mosque; it can be used metaphorically for a person or channel of communication.
- Lane · entry 40633
سُدَّة
A sleeping platform made of bound palm-sticks stripped of their leaves.
- Lane · entry 40633
سَدَاد
Rightness, correctness, or sound judgment in speech, action, management, or aim; also a traditional name for a bow associated with hitting its mark.
The noun may denote a right saying or course of action, the ability to hit the proper aim, or a name motivated by accurate shooting.
- Lane · entry 40635
سَدَاد
The direction or quarter of a place.
Occurs in the expression for a wind coming from the direction of someone's land.
- Lane · entry 40635
سِدَاد
Something used to close an interstice or breach; a stopper or plug, especially of a bottle.
- Lane · entry 40637
سِدَاد
A body of horse and foot stationed to blockade or guard the frontier of a hostile country.
- Lane · entry 40637
سِدَاد
Something by which a want is supplied and life is sustained.
Used of an incomplete provision that supplies part of a person's needs or provides a means of subsistence.
- Lane · entry 40637
سَدِيد
Right, direct, or true: of a spear or arrow that hits its mark, an action or affair that is rightly ordered, or a person who pursues the right course.
This broader Classical range extends the Quranic adjectival sense beyond its attested qualification of speech.
- Lane · entry 40639
سَادَّة
An eye whose sight has gone or become very weak, often one that has become white without yet bursting.
- Lane · entry 40642
سَادَّة
An old and weak she-camel.
- Lane · entry 40642
مَسَدّ
A place of closing or stopping.
- Lane · entry 40644
مُسَدَّد
Directed or pointed in a right direction; of a person, directed, adapted, or disposed toward what is right and acting according to the right course.
- Lane · entry 40646
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic noun is reported with both the سَدّ and سُدّ vocalizations; the sources differ over whether this distinction corresponds to human-made versus naturally created barriers.