Quranic root
سمد
s · m · d
The root centers on proceeding forward without turning aside or stopping.
From this orientation come meanings of continuous journeying and exertion, while diversion or heedlessness is understood as proceeding along in one's activity without pausing or attending elsewhere.
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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.
سَامِدٌ
sāmidun
- 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.
One who amuses himself, plays, or engages in diversion.
Quranic plural سَامِدُونَ; the usage denotes being occupied in amusement or diversion rather than attentive engagement.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 53:61word 2
“amuse (yourselves)”
One who is negligent, inattentive, heedless, or distracted.
A Quranic interpretation of سَامِدُونَ emphasizing failure to attend or heed rather than deliberate amusement.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 53:61word 2
“amuse (yourselves)”
A singer, or one engaged in singing.
One of the explicit interpretations reported for the Quranic plural سَامِدُونَ.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 53:61word 2
“amuse (yourselves)”
One who raises the head, especially in proud self-display.
The Quranic usage is explained through the posture of holding the head high and behaving proudly.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 53:61word 2
“amuse (yourselves)”
One standing confused, perplexed, or amazed, including amazement arising from exuberant joy.
An explicit interpretation of the plural in the Quranic passage; this sense concerns a state of bewilderment or astonishment, not merely heedlessness.
- Lane · entry 42099
Selected Quran examples
Quran 53:61word 2
“amuse (yourselves)”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 53:61سَـٰمِدُونَamuse (yourselves)
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 23 Classical meanings
سَمَدَ
To be or become high or elevated.
A basic intransitive use describing elevation.
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سَمَدَ
To stand with the head raised and the breast erect; of a stallion, to stand thus in sexual excitement.
The erect posture is a conventional descriptive use and is distinct from the Quranic interpretation of proud self-display.
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سَمَدَ
To remain constantly devoted to an affair, or to remain upon the ground or in the land.
A use expressing persistence or continued presence.
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سَمَدَ
To strive, labor, or exert oneself in work or journeying; of camels, to press on in travel without fatigue.
Used both of exertion generally and of sustained movement in a journey.
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سَمَدَهُ
To direct oneself toward, seek, or aim at someone or something.
A transitive construction equivalent in sense to directing oneself toward or seeking a goal.
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سَمَدَ الأَرْضَ
To make land or ground plain, smooth, or soft.
A transitive use applied to ground or land.
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سَمَّدَهُ
To divert or entertain him.
A causative Form II use; it may involve entertaining by means of singing.
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سَمَّدَ الأَرْضَ
To manure or dung the land.
The object is land or soil, with سَمَادٌ as the applied manure.
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سَمَّدَ شَعَرَهُ
To remove all of the hair by shaving it off.
A Form II use also recorded as a dialectal variant of the corresponding use of سَبَّدَ.
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تَسْمِيدٌ
To leave off anointing oneself or one's hair and washing.
A usage in which the object of the verbal noun is understood from context.
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اِسْمَأَدَّ
To become swollen or greatly swollen; of a person, to become swollen with anger.
The same use is applied to an arm, hand, leg, or foot when it becomes inflated and swollen.
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اِسْمَأَدَّ
To go or pass away, or to perish.
It can also describe perishing as a result of anger.
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سَمْدٌ
Continuing or unceasing journeying.
A nominal use describing uninterrupted travel or movement.
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سَمْدًا
Ever, perpetually, or for ever.
Used adverbially in expressions of unending duration.
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سَمَادٌ
Compost or manure made from animal dung with ashes, earth, or dust, or from strong earth.
A material used for enriching land.
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سَمِيدٌ
Fine or white flour, fine bread, or a wheat-based food.
The entry records variant explanations and orthographic uncertainty concerning the final consonant.
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سَامِدٌ
A man or animal raising its head; one standing with the head raised and the breast erect.
This is the general participial description, apart from the specifically Quran-attested interpretation of proud self-display.
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سَامِدٌ
Silent.
A reported Classical Arabic adjectival use.
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سَامِدٌ
Grieving or mourning, and lowly, humble, or submissive.
A reported emotional or behavioral use associated with grief or mourning.
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سَامِدٌ
Continuing in journeying or striving; of camels, pressing on or exerting themselves in travel.
A participial use, especially in descriptions of camels continuing through the night.
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سَامِدٌ
Of a milk-skin or similar vessel, full so that it stands upright.
A specialized figurative or tropical use applied to a وَطْب, a skin used for holding milk.
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إِسْمِيدٌ
An Arabicized term for a kind of white or fine bread.
The source treats its relation to سَمِيدٌ as uncertain and describes it as a borrowed term.
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مِسْمَدٌ
A basket made from palm leaves.
The term is explained as a basket probably used for carrying manure.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The sole Quran occurrence is the plural سَامِدُونَ; the public headword is normalized to the singular active-participle citation form سَامِدٌ.
The Quranic occurrence has several explicitly reported interpretations, including diversion, heedlessness, singing, proud head-raising, and confused amazement; these are retained as distinct senses rather than collapsed into the contextual gloss alone.