Quranic root
سدس
s · d · s
The root is centered on the number six and on division into six equal parts.
From this numerical base develop the sixth position and sixth share, sixfold dimensions and measures, the sixth-day watering interval of camels, and the tooth cast after the fourth tooth.
- Maqāyīs · row 2395
- Mufradāt · row 675
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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.
سَادِسٌ
sādisun
- Part of speech
- Ordinal noun
- 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.
The sixth member of a counted group; occupying position six.
Quranically used in the possessive construction سَادِسُهُمْ, “the sixth of them.”
- Lane · entry 40682
- Mufradāt · row 675
Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:22word 7
“the sixth of them”
Quran 58:7word 24
“(the) sixth of them”
سُدُسٌ
sudusun
- Part of speech
- Fractional 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.
One sixth; a sixth part of a whole.
In the Quranic occurrences, it denotes a prescribed sixth share in inheritance contexts.
- Lane · entry 40675
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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.
- 4:11ٱلسُّدُسُa sixth
- 4:11ٱلسُّدُسُ ۚ(is) the sixth
- 4:12ٱلسُّدُسُ ۚ(is) the sixth
- 18:22سَادِسُهُمْthe sixth of them
- 58:7سَادِسُهُمْ(the) sixth of them
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 24 Classical meanings
سَدَسَ
To take a sixth share of people’s possessions.
Form I verb; used transitively with the people or property from which the share is taken.
- Lane · entry 40669
سَدَسَ
To become the sixth among a group, or to make a group or number six by joining it oneself.
Form I numerical usage; the same pattern may describe increasing a counted group by one, such as making fifty-nine sixty or fifteen sixteen.
- Lane · entry 40669
سَدَّسَ
To make something six in number.
Form II causative numerical usage.
- Lane · entry 40670
سَدَّسَ
To make six-cornered, six-angled, hexagonal, or six-ribbed.
Form II usage describing the resulting sixfold shape or structure.
- Lane · entry 40670
سَدَّسَ
To remain six nights with one’s wife; by extension, to perform an act or say something six times.
A conventional Form II temporal or repetitive construction.
- Lane · entry 40670
أَسْدَسَ
For a party to become six in number; in one numerical extension, to become sixty.
Form IV usage with a collective subject.
- Lane · entry 40671
أَسْدَسَ
Of a camel, sheep, or goat, to cast the tooth called the سَدِيس, after the رَبَاعِيَة.
The casting is normally associated with the eighth year; a sheep or goat may also be described as six years old in this connection.
- Lane · entry 40671
أَسْدَسَ / سِدْسٌ
For camels to come to water on the sixth day of their watering cycle.
The reckoning varies in the cited descriptions, but counts the preceding watering day as the first or describes five intervening days without water.
- Lane · entry 40671
- Lane · entry 40673
سِدْسٌ
Six, as an archaic or original form of سِتّ, the feminine of سِتَّة.
A historical or variant cardinal form, with the plural أَسْدَاسٌ reported in the lexical discussion.
- Lane · entry 40673
سِدْسٌ
The sixth young one or offspring.
Nominal usage referring to birth or offspring order.
- Lane · entry 40673
سُدَاسَ
Six and six together, or six at a time.
A very rare reported usage; the source explicitly notes that it may not actually have been heard.
- Lane · entry 40676
سُدُوسٌ
A ṭaylasān-type cloak; more broadly, a garment of the color called خُضْرَة.
A nominal garment or garment-color designation, with variant vocalization سَدُوسٌ also reported.
- Lane · entry 40678
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سُدُوسٌ
Smoke-black material from fat or lamp-black pigment.
A color or pigment designation, identified with نِيلَنْجٌ in the cited discussion.
- Lane · entry 40678
سَدِيسٌ
The tooth after the رَبَاعِيَة and before the بَازِل.
A masculine or feminine anatomical term for the relevant tooth; plural forms are also reported.
- Lane · entry 40679
سَدِيسٌ
A camel, sheep, or goat casting its سَدِيس tooth.
The animal is generally in its eighth year; a sheep or goat may also be described as six years old.
- Lane · entry 40679
سَدِيسٌ
A type of measure, or a kind of مَكُّوك, used for measuring dates.
A concrete measure designation rather than a general numerical ordinal.
- Lane · entry 40679
سَدِيسٌ
In لا آتِيكَ سَدِيسَ عُجَيْسٍ, a dialectal form related to سَجِيسَ and conveying “ever”; with negation, “never.”
Restricted to the cited idiomatic expression and its negative construction.
- Lane · entry 40679
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سُدَاسِيٌّ
Six cubits in length, especially of an إِزَار garment.
An adjective of measured length applied to the specified garment.
- Lane · entry 40681
سُدَاسِيٌّ
Six spans in height, applied to a slave.
The cited lexical usage specifically applies the adjective to a slave’s height.
- Lane · entry 40681
سُدَاسِيٌّ
A word composed of six letters, whether radicals alone or radicals with augmentative letters.
A technical description of word form.
- Lane · entry 40681
سَادِسٌ
Sixteenth in the compound ordinal سَادِسَ عَشَرَ.
A compositional ordinal construction with the corresponding feminine form سَادِسَةَ عَشْرَةَ.
- Lane · entry 40682
مُسَدَّسٌ
Composed of six layers, strata, or distinct sections; also hexagonal or a hexagon.
A Form II passive participial adjective or noun describing sixfold composition or shape.
- Lane · entry 40684
مُسَدَّسٌ
A verse composed of six metrical feet.
Technical poetic usage.
- Lane · entry 40684
مَسْدُوسٌ
A rope composed of six strands.
A passive participial descriptive noun for six-stranded construction.
- Lane · entry 40685
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The reported سُدَاسَ sense is explicitly marked as possibly unattested and should be treated as marginal.
The Quranic ordinal is normalized to سَادِسٌ and the fractional form to سُدُسٌ; the supplied Quran occurrences are inflected or definite surface forms.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The Mufradat mention of سندس and الإستبرق, and the Lane pointer to سندس, are not assigned to this root artifact because they are distinct lexical identities and the packet supplies no direct evidence establishing them as forms of canonical root سدس.