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Quranic root

سند

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The root centers on joining or leaning one thing against another, whether physically, relationally, or by attribution.

From the basic notion of one thing resting upon or being joined to another develop meanings of support, reliance, ascent along a rising surface, attribution to an authority, and collective alignment under separate standards.

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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.

مُسَنَّدٌ

musannadun

Part of speech
Passive participle / adjective
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. Propped up; set leaning against a support.

    In خُشُبٌ مُسَنَّدَةٌ, the passive participle describes pieces of wood set up or made to lean as supports. The feminine singular form reflects agreement with the nonhuman broken plural خُشُبٌ.

    • Lane · entry 42386
    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 63:4word 11

    propped up

Occurrences in the Quran

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

  • 63:4مُّسَنَّدَةٌۭ ۖpropped up
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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 41 Classical meanings
  • سَنَدَ

    To lean, rest, or stay against or upon something.

    Form I intransitive usage; the object may be a thing, wall, or other support.

    • Lane · entry 42365
  • سَنَدَ

    To ascend a mountain or rise along an elevated surface.

    An intransitive Form I usage, also extended to ascending to a person.

    • Lane · entry 42365
  • سَنَدَ

    To approach or draw near to a stated age.

    Attested in the construction سَنَدَ فِي الخَمْسِينَ or سَنَدَ لِلْخَمْسِينَ, ‘he approached fifty.’

    • Lane · entry 42365
  • سَنَدَ

    Of a she-camel’s tail, to toss about and lash her rump from side to side.

    A specialized description of the movement of the tail.

    • Lane · entry 42365
  • سَنَّدَ

    To wear or clothe oneself with a garment called سَنَد.

    A Form II usage referring to a type of burd garment.

    • Lane · entry 42366
  • سَانَدَ

    To support or stay another, so that one part or person strengthens another.

    The reciprocal or relational construction may describe one part of a thing supporting another.

    • Lane · entry 42367
  • سَانَدَ

    To aid or assist another person.

    A Form III transitive usage with a person as the one assisted.

    • Lane · entry 42367
  • سَانَدَ

    To requite, compensate, or recompense someone for work or an act.

    Attested with عَلَى العَمَلِ, ‘for the work.’

    • Lane · entry 42367
  • سُونِدَ

    Of a she-camel, to have a firm, prominent, or proportionately arranged frame.

    The descriptions concern the relation and prominence of the parts of the body; the cited explanations include both symmetrical and differing structure.

    • Lane · entry 42367
  • أَسْنَدَ

    To make a person or thing lean, rest, or stay against or upon something; to prop or support it.

    Form IV causative usage, including making a leaning thing stable or supported.

    • Lane · entry 42368
  • أَسْنَدَ

    To rest or place one’s affair upon someone as a support or reliance.

    A figurative Form IV construction with an affair or matter made dependent upon a person.

    • Lane · entry 42368
  • إِسْنَادٌ / مُسْنَدٌ

    Attribution of a tradition to its authority; a tradition traced or ascribed to its transmitter or ultimate author.

    In technical hadith usage, the attribution may be expressed by naming the transmitting chain, ordinarily up to the Prophet; مُسْنَدٌ can describe a tradition so traced.

    • Lane · entry 42368
    • Lane · entry 42381
    • Lane · entry 42383
  • إِسْنَادٌ

    In logic, assigning or judging one thing to stand in an affirmative or negative attribute relation to another.

    A conventional technical use concerning the relation of an attribute to its subject.

    • Lane · entry 42368
  • إِسْنَادٌ مَجَازِيٌّ

    A figurative attribution of an act, quality, or meaning to something other than its literal bearer.

    A rhetorical and lexicological term for tropical attribution.

    • Lane · entry 42368
  • أُسْنِدَ الفِعْلُ

    To assign a verb or predication to its grammatical subject, object, or associated agents.

    A technical grammatical construction; the assigned relation can concern a subject, an object, or multiple agents.

    • Lane · entry 42368
  • أَسْنَدَ

    To make someone ascend a mountain.

    A transitive Form IV causative counterpart to the intransitive ascent usage.

    • Lane · entry 42368
  • أَسْنَدَ

    To exert oneself vigorously in running.

    An intransitive Form IV usage referring to effort and intensity in running.

    • Lane · entry 42368
  • أَسْنَدَ

    Of a camel, to move at a pace between two specified gaits.

    A specialized description of camel locomotion.

    • Lane · entry 42368
  • تَسَانَدَ / مُتَسَانِدٌ

    To go forth in separate groups under different commanders or banners.

    The groups are not all under one commander or standard; each party proceeds under its own banner.

    • Lane · entry 42369
    • Lane · entry 42390
  • مُتَسَانِدٌ

    Mutually aiding or supporting one another.

    Used of people, including two persons going forth together, each relying on and assisting the other.

    • Lane · entry 42390
  • سِنْدٌ

    Sind: a country or the people belonging to it; also the name of the Indus River and of several places called al-Sind.

    The word may refer collectively to the nation, to an individual person from it, or geographically to the river, district, or town.

    • Lane · entry 42371
  • سَنَدٌ

    The rising face, acclivity, or elevated portion of a mountain, valley, or ground.

    Specifically the part that faces the observer and rises from the base or foot.

    • Lane · entry 42372
  • سَنَدٌ

    A thing against or upon which one leans or rests, such as a wall, cushion, or pillow.

    A concrete noun for a physical support; its plural is مَسَانِدُ.

    • Lane · entry 42372
  • سَنَدٌ

    A person who serves as a stay, support, or object of reliance.

    A figurative use for a trusted person or chief upon whom others depend.

    • Lane · entry 42372
  • سَنَدٌ

    A type of cloth or garment, especially a garment of the burd fabrics.

    The term may also describe layered clothing in which one shirt is worn beneath another; plural usage varies by source.

    • Lane · entry 42372
  • سَنْدَانٌ / سِنْدَانٌ

    An anvil used by a blacksmith.

    A specialized tool noun, synonymous with عَلَاة or زُبْرَة in the cited explanations.

    • Lane · entry 42374
  • سِنْدَانٌ

    Great and strong.

    Applied adjectivally to a man or a wolf.

    • Lane · entry 42375
  • سِنْدَانَةٌ

    A she-ass, domestic or wild.

    The cited source associates the term with strength, but that association is not required in the definition.

    • Lane · entry 42376
  • سِنْدِيَانٌ

    The ilex or evergreen oak, a kind of tree.

    A tree name in later usage.

    • Lane · entry 42377
  • سِنَادٌ

    Of a she-camel, strong or strong-built; variously described as tall-humped, long-legged and elevated in the hump, or lean and lank in the belly.

    The lexicographical explanations differ, and one authority rejects the lean-and-lank interpretation.

    • Lane · entry 42378
  • أَسْنَدُ

    More explicit or firmly stated with respect to a tradition.

    A comparative or superlative epithet used with لِلْحَدِيثِ and explained by أَنَصُّ لَهُ.

    • Lane · entry 42380
  • إِسْنَادٌ

    A narration or act of transmitting a report.

    A substantivized usage with the plural أَسَانِيدُ, distinct from the technical chain or attribution itself.

    • Lane · entry 42381
  • إِسْنَادٌ

    A kind of tree.

    The identification is reported separately from the commonly known name سِنْدِيَانٌ, with a source note questioning whether the latter identification is a mistake.

    • Lane · entry 42381
  • مَسْنَدٌ

    A place or object on, or against, which one leans or rests; hence a couch or throne.

    A concrete noun for a supporting place or furnishing; plural مَسَانِدُ.

    • Lane · entry 42382
  • مُسْنَدٌ

    Made to lean or rest against something; stayed, propped, or supported.

    Passive participle of Form IV, with a related substantive use for a thing set up as a support.

    • Lane · entry 42383
  • مُسْنَدٌ

    A person who claims as his father someone who is not his father; an adopted or suspected-lineage person.

    A figurative lexical use opposed to كَرِيمٌ in the cited contrast.

    • Lane · entry 42383
  • مُسْنَدٌ / مُسْنَدٌ إِلَيْهِ

    A technical term for one of the two members of a proposition involved in an attribution relation.

    Authorities differ over whether مُسْنَدٌ denotes the subject or the predicate; مُسْنَدٌ إِلَيْهِ denotes the corresponding term to which the attribution is made.

    • Lane · entry 42383
  • مُسْنَدٌ

    The Himyaritic or Himyeritic script and character of writing.

    The term refers to the distinct writing system used in Yemen and associated with Himyeritic language or inscriptions.

    • Lane · entry 42383
  • مُسْنَدٌ

    Time, especially the whole duration of time or an indefinitely long time.

    Used idiomatically for the end of time or for ‘ever.’

    • Lane · entry 42383
  • مُسَنَّدَةٌ

    A certain kind of cloth or garment.

    A nominal Form II passive-participial form used for this garment type independently of the Quranic adjective.

    • Lane · entry 42386
  • مُسَانَدَةٌ

    Of a she-camel, having a prominent, firm, or strongly formed breast, forepart, withers, or back.

    The sources give several explanations, including firm compactness and symmetry or asymmetry of the frame; the term is specialized to camel description.

    • Lane · entry 42388